Ryan looked up at the place where the sound came from, and was surprised to find that it was Fernando, the principal of Castro Brusus' magic, hurrying in on a broomstick.

Looking at Principal Fernando, who flew to the courtyard and hurriedly greeted Ryan, who immediately walked towards the shopkeeper, Ryan asked in surprise: "What is the misunderstanding of your own person you just said? I was directly attacked by him after he brought me here, and now you say that this is a misunderstanding, what is going on?"

At this time, Principal Fernando applied some herbs to the wound and began to treat the shopkeeper's wound with his wand, and Ryan could feel the strong force of nature released. Soon, the wound on the shopkeeper's waist slowly healed. Principal Fernando stood up and was about to answer this question, but the shopkeeper next to him stopped him and said, "I'll answer this question, my attack on you just now was a test, and the wooden thorns were just ordinary sleeping pills." ”

"Test?" Lane suddenly remembered that the shopkeeper seemed to have given up several opportunities to attack just now, and at that time he thought that the shopkeeper was too old to keep up with the movements, but this was really a bit unreasonable for a battle-hardened warrior. But now that explanation makes a lot more sense.

"Yes, it's testing. But I didn't expect you to react so much, and you have such a dangerous magic weapon in your hand. I have to admit that I'm still old and careless. The shopkeeper said a little weakly. "But I just want to know one thing, your reaction is completely beyond the normal range. Can you tell me why?"

"Well, because I saw the sign of the saint on your notebook, I suspect you were trying to kill me. Ryan replied helplessly.

"Ah, there aren't many young people who still know about saints. Yes, I was a saint when I was younger. But you seem to misunderstand a place where the saints don't need to hide themselves, at least not in this place. ”

"What? I found that after Grindelwald's defeat, the Saints disappeared with him, so I always thought it was because I was hunted down and killed. Ryan said in surprise.

At this time, the old man of the shopkeeper was almost recovered, and after helping Principal Fernando to stand up slowly, he tried to straighten his chest and then looked down at Ryan and said, "Before answering your question, can you tell me what kind of person you think Grindelwald is?"

"Grindelwald?" Ryan thought it might be important for the shopkeeper to ask the question, and went through all the information about Grindelwald in his mind. Then he said: "I think Grindelwald has the right starting point, when the wizarding world can't keep up with the Muggle world, if you don't do anything, you just sit back and wait." ”

"Historically, after the outbreak of the First Industrial Revolution, the world of ordinary people entered a period of rapid development, which in a short period of 100 years achieved far more than the previous decades of achievements, and Grindelwaldson was born in that era, and it was obvious that this was seen. Against this backdrop, I believe that his original intention should not be for personal gain, but for the future of the entire wizarding world. ”

Coupled with the excessively strict international secrecy law system at that time, many wizards had strong dissatisfaction, and when Grindelwald first announced that he wanted to break the shackles of secrecy law, he won the support of a group of wizards. ”

"But I think the solution he chose was wrong from the start, he thought that instigating an all-out war between wizards and Muggles would give a head start before the Muggles were fully developed, use the war to hinder the development of the Muggle world, and finally let wizards come out and rule Muggles to solve the problem once and for all. To put it bluntly, when the opponent is developing rapidly, he does not choose to follow the development, but chooses to kill all the possibilities of development. ”

In his quest to achieve this goal, he was fraught with quick success: fanning the flames of war in order to provoke war, killing wizards who did not support him, attempting to cause a massacre in Paris. This naturally sparked a revolt from wizards, and the wizarding world was also at war when a world war broke out in the Muggle world. ”

"Thankfully, in the end, Dumbledore stopped Grindelwald so that the wizards didn't go extinct due to the internal war before the Muggles found themselves. After synthesizing a great deal of material that he had seen in his previous life, Ryan expressed his opinion of Grindelwald in the presence of the former saint. However, when looking at the shopkeeper's somewhat ugly face, Ryan added:

"But I don't think what Grindelwald did was useless, after all, it was precisely because of Grindelwald's actions that forced the wizarding world to revise the secrecy law and cancel those harsh regulations, so that today's wizarding world can absorb new blood and revitalize the wizarding world. ”

"I'm surprised you know so much about Grindelwald, and I couldn't have wished for anything better for your age. But I have something here that you don't know, and do you want to listen to an old man's chatter now?" said the shopkeeper after listening to Ryan's summary.

Ryan nodded excitedly, after all, this kind of opportunity to learn the secrets of the wizarding world was not much for him. Seeing Ryan's excited expression, the shopkeeper cleared his throat and said, "I, Frank Skorzny, a second-generation saint. My father was one of the first wizards to follow Grindelwald, and later became the commander of one of the Saints' elite action squads. Even when I was born in 1925, it was Grinder who performed the baptism for me. ”

"My father was there when Grindelwald tried to destroy the city of Paris in '26. They clearly saw the scene of World War II prophesied by Grindelwald for them, because of the conflict with the Aurors. So after that, it entered the stage of open violence. ”

"But as you just said, Grindelwald's policies provoked a fierce revolt. By the time I joined the Saints in 1942 as an adult, we were in complete decline. Tobruk, Volgograd, Kursk, Palermo, Rome, Cherbourg, Paris, Bastogne. I've been through every major battle of the Saints in the late days, but there are fewer and fewer of us, and more and more opponents are coming. The excitement and excitement at the beginning also transformed into a deep exhaustion and helplessness. ”

"On top of that, our leader Grindelwald has also discovered the biggest hole in his plans, and Muggles have not stopped developing in this all-out war, but have accelerated their development. And his war in the wizarding world has further weakened the power of wizards as a whole. As far as my father can remember, from '44 Grindelwald was no longer the passionate leader, he was just doing things routinely. ”

"In '45, he chose to duel Dumbledore because by that time he had already discovered that his dream would never come true, so he wanted to be able to stop the wizard from bleeding through a duel. At the same time, it also finds a way out for the remaining faithful saints. ”

After the duel, Grindelwald chose to close himself off in Newmengard. Most of the saints were pardoned, and many joined the ministries of magic in Europe and the United States after the war. My father and I, along with some of the saints who had killed too much in the war, went into exile and vowed never to return home. ”

Speaking of which, the shopkeeper glanced at Ryan and said, "Don't look at me like that, I swear we only kill in battle, and there is never any record of attacking non-combatants." Otherwise, the ministries of magic in the post-war countries would not let us go. But we do have something to do with the former saints when we test you this time. ”