dragon and boy

Chapter 21

Grindelwald's tone was a bit frivolous, and Albus was a little displeased. He got up and pushed him away, then walked to the wooden writing desk and shifted his weight back, leaning on it and half-sitting.

"Do you really believe that's the future?" Albus asked. "I think that's what we long for most, deep down, more than the future."

"Why not?" Grindelwald asked.

"Because I have no siblings, everything I see in the mirror is false," said Albus, "but I long for these things in my heart, and that's why I see them in the Mirror of Erised."

"Dumbledore is a fallen nobleman at Hogwarts," retorted Grindelwald, "Aberforth Dumbledore and Ariana Dumbledore lived with their parents in Godric's Hollow. Albus, Don't you think this is the future?"

"Have you checked me?"

"I want to make your desire come true," Grindelwald said, "but can you help me?"

"I can not."

Albus looked at Grindelwald's expression, and the other party seemed to believe in what he saw in the Mirror of Erised, just like Dippet and Olim in this world.

"Gellert," said Albus, "in this case, you should see Durmstrang's future through the magic mirror, not me."

Grindelwald didn't speak, and he looked a little helpless in the face of Albus's repeated rejections.When he sent Albus to the door, he wanted to stretch out his hand to help him pluck his hair, but when the other party stepped back half a step, avoiding Grindelwald's hand, he said unhurriedly, "Good night, my lord. "

"Good night."

The natural sponge Albus put on the window sill was able to squeeze out the water, and the humidity in the room had indeed dropped a lot.He wrung out the sponge, put it on the window sill again, took off his coat, and plopped on his back on the bed.

Expected a good night's sleep, but Albus's mind was preoccupied with the scene he had seen in the Mirror of Erised.He tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep, and turned his gaze to the twinkling starry sky outside the window.

The dense stars in the night sky seemed to be able to form countless patterns. Albus sat up suddenly, picked up the unloaded sword from the table, and stared at the icon of the Deathly Hallows for a long time.

He raised the scabbard and aimed it at the starry sky outside. The stars were connected from top to bottom, and down to both sides. With the embellishments in the middle, they could almost coincide with the Deathly Hallows.

Suddenly, Albus put on his coat again.He quietly closed the door of his bedroom, taking advantage of the darkness, quietly blended into this unmoved castle.

He didn't know where Dippet hid the Mirror of Erised, he could only guess that it was placed in the same place as it had been on the campus before.Go down the high ladder, walk through a long corridor, and turn to the third room where he used to put the mirror of Erised.

The door was locked, and Albus pushed hard several times but failed to open it.He looked around and saw that no one was coming looking for the sound, so he took out a small wire from his pocket, knelt down and fiddled with the lock on the door.

Fortunately, he had studied the way of Muggle locks, so Albus easily opened the lock without using spells.

The mirror was once again covered by a curtain, and after lifting it, Albus was finally able to face his inner desire without distraction this time.

A flash of lightning flashed outside the window, instantly illuminating the oppressive and dark room, and Albus saw Grindelwald appear in the mirror again, and the other party stretched out his hand, as if stroking his cheek.

Albus opened his lips lightly, raised his hand slightly and then remained motionless, there was light in his eyes, he pursed his mouth and turned his head to the side.

Although the scene has been changing, the people in the mirror have not changed in the past hundred years.The shape of Grindelwald's mouth was the "I love you" that Albus couldn't wait for, and Albus stepped forward and covered the mirror with his hand.

"I still miss you."

Albus muttered to himself, clenched his hands into fists, and lightly punched the mirror, the magic mirror trembled back and forth for a moment, and then everything returned to calm.At this moment, Albus hoped that his inner conjecture could be confirmed. He admitted that even if Grindelwald chose to abandon him at the beginning, he still couldn't abandon those old thoughts.

There was a sound of pattering rain outside the window, and Albus spread his hands flat on the mirror, touching Grindelwald's in the mirror, and at the same time he pressed his forehead against the other's, he could only use this silent way Express the pain and helplessness that you have nowhere to tell.

The wind blew the window open, and the rain was blown in, hitting the mirror and Albus's face.Grindelwald in the mirror began to become blurred, and Albus wiped it vigorously with his sleeve several times, but he still couldn't see the other person's face clearly.

He took a step or two back, slowly returning the expression on his face to calm.Grindelwald in the mirror seemed to want to grab Albus who was backing away, but Albus just looked at him without making any movement.

It's all an illusion, Albus told himself.

When another flash of lightning flashed outside the window, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps in the corridor outside the door.Albus pricked up his ears to listen, something big seemed to happen outside, and the whole sleeping castle boiled up in an instant.

Taking advantage of the wave of people leaving in the corridor, Albus slipped out of the house quietly while no one was there.The faces of the attendants and soldiers in the castle were very flustered, and Albus felt a little weird walking with them in the aisle in the opposite direction.

When he came to an intersection, he suddenly raised an arm and pulled Albus to another corridor.Grindelwald pulled Albus to follow the soldiers running in the corridor. He held Albus's hand tightly and asked, "Where have you been?"

"What happened?" Albus didn't answer, but asked instead, "Big thing?"

Grindelwald nodded: "Something happened to Dippet. He was found lying in the corridor and couldn't wake up."

Dippet was carried to his own bed. His face looked extremely painful. Although he was flat on the bed, his head was upturned and his spine was deformed.Standing beside him was a woman in a black robe and an exaggerated ivory necklace. She was slowly pacing beside Dippet, muttering something incessantly.

"Witch doctor?" Albus whispered in Grindelwald's ear, "here..."

Before he finished speaking, the witch doctor roared loudly in the room, slapped and sprinkled the so-called holy water on Dippet's body at the same time.When she passed by Albus, she leaned her head and stared at him for several seconds, until Albus took half a step back, and then she continued to cast the spell in a daze.

After reciting a witch spell, the witch doctor stopped in the middle of the room, her loose hair covered one eye, she grinned, lowered her head and said, "Your Majesty Dippet has been enchanted."

"Witchcraft?" Albus saw that the witch doctor just poured a few drops of water casually, she couldn't tell Dippet's symptoms, and she didn't take any substantive measures, she just blamed everything on witchcraft, he couldn't help but Muttered to Grindelwald, "Are you sure she's not playing tricks? I would actually splash water and talk nonsense."

The witch doctor didn't hear Albus's words, but his voice fell right into Olim's ears.Orim frowned, apparently thinking Albus' words were disrespectful to the witch doctor before them.

Here, witch doctors are a group of people with a very high status. They seem to be the creators of the relationship between human beings and God. It is their bounden duty to cure diseases and save people. his right to live.

"I have cast off the curse on His Majesty and begged God." The witch doctor spoke very sincerely, "God will bless His Majesty Dippet."

Olim expressed her thanks to the witch doctor, and Albus followed Grindelwald in nodding.Before leaving, Albus stopped at the door and stared at Dippet for a while, he locked his eyes on Dippet, and frowned thoughtfully.

Hogwarts has no queen for the time being, and naturally there is no heir.While everyone was worried about the future of this country, Albus finally remembered this familiar symptom.He has been in the Forbidden Forest for more than ten years, and he has seen all kinds of exotic flowers and plants, and his dragon family explained their efficacy to him.

"I think it might be... nuxies." Albus explained in words that everyone could understand. "People who eat too much nuxe will be poisoned and look like they are under a spell." No two, their bodies will shrink, deform, and sometimes convulse. I have seen in the book that some people use this drug to test the loyalty of believers to the church."

"If you drink any poison, you don't have to suffer." Grindelwald suddenly continued, "The sentence mentioned in the Gospel of Mark refers to this drug?"

"Yes."

"Enough." At this moment, Olim suddenly interrupted, "You are disrespecting witch doctors and gods!"

"Queen Orim." Albus was stunned for a moment, then bowed his body respectfully, "Do you think it's better to entrust your life to God, or to hold it in your own hands? If it's you, you want an antidote, Or is it God's blessing?"

Olim was silent for a while, although she was still sullen, but she put away her aggressive appearance just now, took a deep breath and asked, "Then where do you go to find the antidote?"

"Whirling stones and mandrakes, maybe we need to find them," said Albus, "but unfortunately, I can't refine the antidote, and I can't think of a suitable person who is good at it."

"I think there's one man who might," Grindelwald put in, "the one who gets paid to brew the poison... but his whereabouts are a mystery, and his name is not even known."

Albus and Grindelwald fell silent at the same time. The man did sound like he had the talent to brew medicine, but how to find him became their biggest difficulty.

"Maybe... I know some information. I heard something on the way here." Olim hesitated for a moment, but said, "Maybe he is in Hogwarts at this moment, and he claimed to be... ....Half-Blood Prince."