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This time, Harry slept soundly and did not have any strange hallucinations.
Perhaps, this is the so-called power of love.
Love is an illusory thing. When people are surrounded by love, sometimes they cannot clearly sense its existence; but once they suffer setbacks and blows, or even suffer life-threatening, love can make people regain their senses. Cheer up and save the day.
Just like the protection Harry's mother once gave him, and Hermione and Luna's company for him now...
It's just a little regrettable that the effect of this love is so good that Harry really fell asleep at night...
Chapter 790 Four Castles, Cages, and Old Friends
Early the next morning, when Dumbledore saw Harry and the three of them at the appointed place outside the school, it was a coincidence that he had experienced many storms and waves when he was young, and he was really shocked at the moment.
"Harry, I thought you were the only one who traveled through time and space." Dumbledore looked at Hermione and Luna kindly, "But this is really good, no matter how absurd it is , there are people who are willing to accompany us to do it together, this is indeed an indescribable happiness."
"I totally agree with this point~" Harry nodded with a smile, "I am very happy now, and I have no doubt about it!"
"Oh, I think we should hurry up and go." Dumbledore said with a little entanglement.
Dumbledore, who has cultivated to the point of becoming a human being, can certainly see Harry's happiness, and he can also see that this happiness is double~
And it was precisely because of this that he chose to believe in Harry, and was even willing to find another person for this, and in front of the three of Harry, he unreservedly showed his inner feelings to them.
Different from the old Deng who had a different fate, although Dumbledore only saw Harry once, he was sure that the child would not grow crooked in the future... because he was completely surrounded by love, and he was more beautiful than Harry here. More and more sincere love from Potter!
It's just that it's really not a good habit to show affection at a young age, and I don't know how to respect the elderly~
"I temporarily made a portkey, which can help us reach Austria quickly. After that, we can apparate to the foot of the mountains near Nurmengard."
While explaining, Dumbledore pulled a unique Portkey from his pocket...it was a roll of woolen socks.
"Sorry, I don't have anything very useful around me~" Dumbledore smiled kindly.
"It's okay, this one is fine." Harry nodded, and shook hands with the two girls.
The items used by British wizards to make portkeys have always been strange. Before the Quidditch World Cup, the Ministry of Magic even distributed portkeys such as broken boots and waste tires.
Compared with those products that are not only decorated with sludge, but also have added flavor, Dumbledore's wool socks are really good.
What's more, the three of Harry also knew that this was some kind of sustenance in his heart, and they must show respect.
Then, the light flashed, Dumbledore activated the Portkey, and the figures of the four disappeared from the spot in an instant.
...
Central Europe, the Republic of Austria, a country once occupied by Gellert Grindelwald.
However, it is not accurate to say that it is occupied, because Grindelwald just destroyed the Austrian Ministry of Magic, and then built a castle in the mountains here.
Of course, there is one thing to say, the location of Grindelwald's castle is still good.
It is located in the mountains of Austria, surrounded by layers of snow-capped mountains, surrounded by dangerous cliffs and dense forests, as long as an anti-apparition spell is cast, it will immediately become an impenetrable, easy-to-see An impregnable fortress.
However, the agreed anti-apparition spell failed to take effect in the end, because after arriving in Austria, Harry asked Dumbledore for the exact location of Nurmengard Castle, and then initiated the apparition on his own initiative.
In just the blink of an eye, they had crossed half of Austria's territory, and at the same time crossed the mountains and walls outside Nurmengard, and appeared directly at the entrance of the castle!
Looking at the dark castle entrance and a line of words written by Grindelwald above the gate - 'for the greater good', Dumbledore couldn't help but feel dazed for a moment.
He was amazed at Harry's ability to defy the restriction of the anti-apparition spell, and at the same time, he was inevitably brought back memories by this line of text...
It was like this every time, those experiences and emotions in his youth, they were tightly wrapped around his heart like vines—no, they should be wrapped around his soul, and they could never be untied.
And Dumbledore will definitely carry them on his back until the grave.
"This is Nurmengard. Under normal circumstances, we should walk up from the bottom of the mountain, but this time we saved effort." Dumbledore explained softly, his eyes full of reminiscence, "After dozens of years Years ago, there were organs and guards all over here, but now it has gradually been deserted... People only know that there was a notorious Dark Lord in Europe, but they don’t know that he has lived here alone for 50 years.”
"Then, wouldn't this cage be useless to him?" Hermione asked in surprise.
"Perhaps, the real prison is in the heart." Luna said softly.
"Yeah... In fact, if he wanted to, he could still escape easily even when Nurmengard was heavily guarded back then, but he didn't do that." Dumbledore said with emotion, "Maybe just like Lu As Na said, my old friend fell into a cage in his heart. Since he was imprisoned, we spent decades arguing, even arguing, until we finally understood each other in our hearts, and while carefully hiding each other's feelings, Over and over again, I made a temptation to the other party...I admit that I was deeply addicted to it..."
Harry could imagine such a scene, a pair of close friends who are no longer young, they communicated with each other through owls, at first they tried to persuade each other frequently and fiercely, but then they began to give in and compromise until all the resentment dissipated, and then Trials focus on reconciliation...
Well, if the above passage is replaced by another word, it will have the meaning of "suddenly looking back, but that person is in a dimly lit place".
"After careful calculation, the last time I corresponded with him should have been more than ten years ago... just half a month after James and Lily passed away, and he wrote me back at Christmas. He did let I'm going to hurry up and get Voldemort off, but just like he said... I've been, stuck in a mental burden, been dawdling..."
Walking in the dilapidated corridors of Nurmengard, while letting the ash float in this no longer glorious castle, while listening to Dumbledore talking about his past with someone...
Many things may already be self-evident.
Harry really never thought that a "friendship" in his youth would have such a profound impact on Dumbledore!
Up the dilapidated stairs, they finally came to the top floor of the castle.
There is only one dilapidated prison cell here, the old fence is so decayed that it is useless, it is not locked, and there is no magic spell protection left.
"Is that you, Albus..."
The four had just finished walking the last step when an old voice came from the cell.
Trembling, with a little untraceable anticipation...and surprise.
"It's me...Gellert, I didn't expect you to be so sharp after so many years." Dumbledore walked slowly to the front of the cell, facing his old friend through the fence.
"It's just for you," the old man in the cell grinned, showing his few teeth, "I'm familiar with everything about you, whether it's the sound of your breathing or your stumbling steps~"
He looked at Dumbledore with his cloudy eyes, and at the place where the eyes meet, the time that connects a lifetime flows...
Chapter 790 Toffee, how sweet is it...
Gellert Grindelwald…
Looking at the old man in front of him, Harry really felt the devastation of time on a person.
He has almost no hair and no teeth, and the wrinkled skin tightly wraps around the cheekbones, and the whole face looks no better than death.
That thin body couldn't support the ragged prison uniform, and every time he breathed, the contours of his chest and ribs were clearly discernible.
Who would have thought that the Dark Lord, who once ravaged half of the European magic world, brought nightmares to countless people, and was sought after by countless people, would look like this now...
"Oh, let me calculate how long we haven't really faced each other." After a long time, Grindelwald withdrew his gaze and turned his eyes to look at the thick spider web on the ceiling.
"It's been 50 years, it's been 50 years... What, you finally solved that boy Fu, and finally remembered me, an old friend who has been abandoned in the corner?"
"No...On the contrary, I must admit...Gellert, I failed to honor your wish." Dumbledore shook his head regretfully, "Voldemort has not been defeated, and he is reborn with the combination of what he fears most Idea... Once he fully recovers, he will start to reunite those followers and drag the whole of England into the dark quagmire again!"
"But, what does this have to do with me?" Grindelwald laughed dumbly, "You want to protect those cowardly and ignorant guys in England, that's your business, just like your guilty mental burden; and what I have now, There is only a dirty and narrow transom overhead, and a lonely swaying shadow~"
"That's true, so I didn't come to talk to you about it, but...I'm very happy to see that you still retain the poetic talent that shined in your youthful conversation." Dumbledore smiled disapprovingly Smiling, he took out a simple-packaged candy from his arms, "Do you want to try it, it might make you talk better."
"Oh... I didn't expect you to bring me a gift, but I hope it's a stack of parchment, I don't have enough for replying letters, instead of... a piece of taffy?"
Grindelwald stretched out his hand tremblingly, and took the candy along the gap in the fence. Although he tried his best to maintain a look of disgust, he finally peeled it off.
"Ah, this familiar taste..." Before he ate the candy, he unconsciously showed an expression of incomparable aftertaste, "Damn it, you should have thought of this a long time ago! After so many years, you can't even eat one candy." No toffee was ever given to me! I can now imagine the flavor exploding on my tongue like a spell!"
"I knew that you would like it." Dumbledore looked at the scene in front of him with a smile.
"Oh, of course I would like it." Grindelwald glanced at the three Harrys not far away, and gradually a mischievous smile appeared on his face, "I am too familiar with how sweet this thing is, just like Your small mouth is the same as that of yours back then~"
He pinched the candy with his index finger and thumb, and after putting it in his mouth, he closed his eyes and savored it beautifully.
"Push in with your index finger like this, sucking endlessly, and be sure to let the sun shine on the crystals left on the nails... Albus, have you recalled this kind of scene in these years?"
"Ah this..."
It wasn't Dumbledore who made the sound, but Hermione let out a whisper inadvertently.
She didn't intentionally want to disturb the two old people's 'mutual confession', it's just that the feelings they expressed and what they said were really too...
Anyway, this friendship must not be very pure~
"Can't bear it at last?" Grindelwald said with a smile at this time, "Albus, the three children you brought are quite polite, and they have been waiting for us to chatter for so long."
"I can't talk about being polite, but I actually endured it quite hard." Harry said flatly.
Of course, what he was holding back was not Hermione's gossiping suspicion, but a kind of hatred from the heart... no, maybe it should be hatred from the soul!
After actually meeting Gellert Grindelwald, Harry realized that his previous negative thoughts about this person did not seem to be pure prejudice.
Because he really had a feeling that he couldn't coexist with this person at all!
That is a kind of enmity that is either to die or to die together. There is no third possibility for the paranoid!
"That kind of look... Do you have any elders in your family who have been harmed by me?" Grindelwald asked with his head tilted.
When he was the Dark Lord back then, he had killed many people, so seeing Harry facing him with such hatred, he naturally felt that the other party should be the queen of some enemy.
However, Dumbledore shook his head.
"No, Gellert, he's Harry, the same boy I told you about before. But his situation is very different, he's from another time and place, and he's always had doubts about things between us. "
Dumbledore briefly explained Harry's situation to Grindelwald, but in return, Grindelwald sneered.
"My dear Albus, did you come to me because you wanted to talk about these things?" Grindelwald looked at Dumbledore with a sarcasm on his face, "I once defeated the Dark Lord, the greatest white wizard in the world, A self-righteous person who is used to having everything in his hands...Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, I thought you were coming for me, an old man about to be driven mad by time, It is hoped that we can join forces and find ways to snatch the Time Converter from this kid!"
"After all... haven't you always been addicted to the past, always regretting everything you have experienced in the past?"
"That's a good idea," Harry nodded graciously at this time, "You must try this, I'm just worried that I have no excuse to fight with you~"
"Oh? Kid, do you know who you are facing?" Grindelwald's cloudy eyes gradually became dangerous, "I have been away from the magic world for too long, so that a junior who jumps out now will be Dare to speak out in front of me?"
"Harry, please don't mind too much. Gellert is a romantic person, and he can be quite outspoken sometimes." Seeing this, Dumbledore quickly became a peacemaker, "Also...Gellert, you It is best not to underestimate Harry, he is different from ordinary little wizards... In his own time and space, Harry is already an existence that Voldemort fears extremely!"
"Oh, is this a great achievement?" Grindelwald snorted disdainfully, "That boy, I always thought you could solve him in at most six months, but you actually delayed it for so long!"
"As I said just now, Gellert... I'm not here to discuss Voldemort's affairs." Dumbledore said in a deep voice, "As for Harry... if I say, he can come and go freely regardless of the blockade of the anti-apparition spell." , and at the same time is an obscurant, in this case...can you face up to his power?!"
"You said... silently?" Grindelwald suddenly turned to Harry, looking at the black mist-like magical power on the other's shoulder, he seemed to have figured out something all of a sudden.
"Albus, do you mean...you don't want this kid to make the same mistakes as your cousin?"
Chapter 790 Six Oolong, Obscure, and Love
In other words, Harry really didn't expect that he originally wanted to ask Dumbledore to help answer questions, but in the end he came up with unexpected gains.
He actually learned about another obscurant in the twentieth century besides himself, Credence Barbourne...or Aurelius Dumbledore.
It turned out that what Newt told him before, the person in the Dumbledore family who perfectly controlled Mo Ran was actually Dumbledore's cousin!
His life experience seems to be very mysterious, Dumbledore and Grindelwald didn't mention it too much in the conversation, Harry only heard that the other party was also a member of Grindelwald's camp back then, and he was also the most powerful existence among all dark wizards!
Beside him was the burning phoenix, which could destroy everything after silently erupting. He could also convert that terrifying power into controllable magic power, and he could easily level a mountain with just a spell!
Just such a few words of memories have already vividly described the power of Aurelius!
There is no doubt that this guy is the wizard that Harry had imagined before, who can release the curse-level wide-area magic!
Whether it was Dumbledore, Grindelwald, or Voldemort at their peak, none of them were as powerful as Aurelius!
But the power of silence is a double-edged sword to him after all, so... he killed himself.
"I don't want to blame anyone, but there is no doubt that we have killed my relatives together again." Dumbledore said softly in a hoarse voice, "Just like poor Ariana, so did Aurelius Involved in our disputes, it will end up like that in the end..."
"Yes yes yes, I lured him astray!" Grindelwald looked very impatient, "Is it me who led him to take the initiative to plunge into the darkness, and finally disappeared without a trace? All of this is mine Wrong... Albus, you have spent decades arguing with me just to hear me say this sentence myself?!"
"No...Gellert, I never felt resentful towards you because of this, I just hated myself for not being able to find out his life experience in the first place, let alone protecting him." Dumbledore's tone was full of Sighing, "What's more... Aurelius himself gave up the love beside him at that time."
"Love? Albus, do you think their kind of so-called love? A poor blood-cursed orc who will turn into a beast at some point, coupled with an adult who hasn't appeared again for hundreds of years Obscure?"
For Dumbledore's remarks, Grindelwald seemed quite disdainful.
"The so-called love must be established on the basis of equal power, just like us... In short, both parties must be able to provide assistance to each other! And that snake girl, she will only affect the speed at which your cousin releases magic!"
"That... please wait a moment~" At this moment, Harry on the side couldn't help but feel that something was wrong the more he listened, "What you just said, Aurelius' lover...she is a blood-cursed orc, and she is also a...snake female?"
"That's right, they seem to have met in a circus that smuggled magical animals before." Grindelwald said casually.
"So, that blood-cursed orc...couldn't it be called Nagini?"
"How do you know?" Grindelwald raised his eyelids, "Could it be that Albus told you?"
"I'd rather not know..."