14. The Tower
Dumbledore was silent, the cold night breeze blowing on his face, carrying the smell of the waves, and in his ears was the drumming of the waves crashing against the rock wall.
"Did you bring any wine?" Grindelwald asked suddenly.
"I haven't drunk it for a long time, and the head of our school's Slytherin doesn't allow me to drink anymore, it's not very good for my body, but you remind me that I regret it a little, anyway, he won't be there, and it's impossible to see me drinking secretly, I should bring a bottle from outside."
Dumbledore looked a little annoyed, and he saw the lack of alcohol as a mistake.
"Dean of Slytherin, won't you drink if you don't let you drink? When did Dumbledore become so obedient? Is it because you are afraid of death? Afraid of drinking and dripping yourself to death? ”
"I'm dying, too!" Dumbledore said, he suddenly said, "That's right, I fell into a kind of misconception before, and I'm dying anyway, so it's better to do whatever I want, no matter how taboo I live...... It's just a few days late. ”
"I know Voldemort made a few Horcruxes!" Grindelwald said.
"That kind of thing...... Harm others and yourself! Didn't he find out himself, if the Horcrux was really that convenient, how many wizards in this world couldn't die, but in fact, why did anyone who touched this line still die, Voldemort himself didn't realize that he was about to go crazy! Grindelwald glared at Dumbledore, "It's all your teacher's unqualified." ”
"So...... All the faults are my faults, right? Dumbledore asked rhetorically.
"Including, you failed and were imprisoned in Newmengard?"
"My greatest failure is to recognize you as a friend, if not for that...... The world has changed a long time ago! ”
"If we weren't friends, I would have killed you fifty years ago."
"Don't talk big, at most the two of us will die together, and maybe it will be better for us to die in this wizarding world, and you won't recruit that Tom Riddle, as long as the other party doesn't come into contact with the wizarding world, it will be impossible to grow into Voldemort in the future."
Dumbledore spread his hands and said, "The world is so ironic, he let the most inappropriate two people meet and know each other, see them as confidants, and fall into a kind of love, and finally become enemies because of differences of opinion, and then put down the fight fifty years later when the two of them are dying." ”
"When I fell voluntarily under your wand, I was already laid down, and I can see it as atonement for my sins for the past fifty years, and at the same time...... I also thought that maybe one day I would be released from prison...... You'll be sure to go to Newmengard to welcome me back to my freedom, and maybe I'll even plan to teach at Hogwarts. ”
Dumbledore smiled, "I'll put you in the Defence Against the Dark Arts class, and let the first Dark Lord teach the children Defence Against the Dark Arts class." ”
He doesn't usually joke about school, but this time Dumbledore couldn't help but laugh first, "This must be funny." ”
"As far as I know, Voldemort also taught Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts for a year, but alas...... It is attached to the body of others. Grindelwald smiled too.
"Horcruxes hurt you a lot, how many days can you live?" Grindelwald asked.
"Soon, it won't feel too long." Dumbledore then asked, "You had students come to the school with your old wand to plan the assassination of Sherlock?" Are you kidding? ”
"I just want to test the depth of the other party's water, you can just see it as a joke, and I haven't fought that kid before, so we can't hand over the messy magical world to someone else after we die, right?"
Grindelwald suddenly opened his arms, "I am a wicked person, I don't know how many people in the world after death will give me face, but I will tell them the news of the greatest white wizard Dumbledore soon, and try my best to prepare the greatest welcome party for you in the place of death, maybe I can still see Merlin in my reputation, I hope that those who died at my hands will not say too much bad things in front of Merlin, after all, Merlin is my idol." ”
Grindelwald then faced Dumbledore with his back to the cliff and fell straight down to the bottom of the cliff.
The two of them had been talking, not pointing their wands at each other, not using a single spell, until Grindelwald had fallen that Dumbledore's heart began to heavily, as he had expected to be the case.
When the other party voluntarily failed five years ago, Dumbledore knew that the other party would never return to the paranoid Grindelwald of the past.
"Merlin will tolerate your soul, at this moment your consciousness is the most upright in the world, your soul is the purest, even death cannot humiliate you and insult you, death will become your auspicious place......" Dumbledore silently said a eulogy to Grindelwald.
He had never done it for anyone else, not when Harry's parents died, not when the Order of the Phoenix died, and for the first and last time he said it to Grindelwald.
Dumbledore sat on a stone next to him and watched the night, and it wasn't until Harry came that he thought it had only been a few minutes, but it was actually hours.
"It's time for us to go back, Harry." Dumbledore looked up, and there seemed to be several black mist converging, the largest of which had a majestic evil power, which reminded Dumbledore of the student, who once thought he was excellent, but in fact raised the little devil into the child of the big demon.
"Professor, someone's coming...... It hurts! Harry's forehead was starting to hurt again!
Three legendary archwizards appeared here tonight, and one of them voluntarily gave up his life.
Dumbledore grabbed Harry's shoulder, and when Voldemort arrived, he was furious and blew the cliff to pieces.
The dirt buried Grindelwald's body below, and perhaps only Harry would remember that there was a great wizard buried in this place in the future, and it was not certain that he would come to mourn.
Harry felt the world spin around as they returned to their familiar surroundings, Dumbledore's Headmaster's office, and the portrait was accused of becoming more and more ignorant as Dumbledore grew older.
Always run out alone and come back after a while.
"You're not ready to retire, old bastard, get out if you don't want to! Let McGonagall do it. "The previous Headmaster loudly accused Dumbledore.
Harry tried to defend Dumbledore, but was stopped by Dumbledore.
"It's nice to hear them scolding once in a while, it makes me feel young," he said. ”
At this time, there was the sound of irregular footsteps outside, as if a group of people were pushing this way again.
"Harry, do you still have the Cloak of Invisibility?" Dumbledore asked Harry.
"Yes, I carry it." Harry gave the Cloak of Invisibility to Dumbledore, but the other party waved his wand and immobilized Harry's whole body, and only his eyes could move.
"I'm sorry kid I can't let you see what happened next, don't feel sorry for me if I die, I deserve it, I thought I could compensate you too much, I wanted you to be happy at school, but I found that I couldn't even do this basic thing, I won't be able to take care of you, but luckily you have friends."
Dumbledore pursed his lips and then said, "I think you'll hate me if we meet again when you're not aware of your mission, and when you're aware of your mission, we can sit down and drink tea when we meet again, though I don't know if the souls of the dead can taste the scent of tea." ”
Dumbledore hid Harry under the table, which prevented Harry from seeing what was going to happen next in the room, and Dumbledore cast a spell that caused Harry's ears to hear only a buzzing roar.
I couldn't see the room, I couldn't hear a sound, I couldn't move, and I was covered by an invisibility cloak.
Harry didn't know how to describe the moment, and once Dumbledore had done all this, the door to his office was slammed open.
"Aha...... Caught a big fish...... It's Dumbledore! ”
That crazy woman, Bellatrix Lestrange, babbled.
A large group of Death Eaters crowded in and saw Dumbledore, but they didn't understand why Bellatrix was so excited.
Didn't you see that it was Dumbledore, if the other party got serious, maybe this group of people would not be enough to stuff the other party's teeth.
However, Dumbledore at this time was really bad, and Grindelwald's death, coupled with the last effective time of the curse, made Dumbledore even older.
"Except for your weapons!"
The Elder Wand in Dumbledore's hand flew out, and the Death Eaters were almost dumbfounded, feeling that Dumbledore felt like he had deliberately thrown the wand out of his hands, just to make a fake move with your weapon.
"Well done!" Bellatrix pulls Mia out from behind, repairs the Vanishing Cabinet, and summons the Death Eaters for the final task.
"Okay...... I'm really an incompetent old man now, and I feel like we can sit down and have a tea party together! Dumbledore's tone remained calm.
Bellatrix smirked in exasperation.
"You're dying, and you think these little jokes will save your life?" She scoffed.
"Jokes? No, no, it's courtesy. Dumbledore replied.
"Let's do it." The strange Death Eater said that his limbs were long, his gray hair and beard were knotted, and the black Death Eater's robe was uncomfortably tightly clung to his body.
His voice was strange, a kind of hiss, shrill roar.
There was a strange smell from his nose, mixed with the smell of earth, sweat, and ...... No doubt...... The smell of blood.
He had long yellow nails on his filthy fingers.
"Is that you, Fenrir?" Dumbledore asked.
"That's right." The man said in a shrill voice, "Glad to see me, Dumbledore?" ”
"No, can't say it's ...... happy"
Fenrir Greyback grinned, baring his pointed teeth.
Blood dripped onto his chin as he licked his lips slowly, disgustingly.
"But you know how much I love children, Dumbledore."
"Can I understand it this way: now you bite even on days when the moon is not full? That's weird...... Have you developed this habit of eating human flesh and can't satisfy it once a month? ”
"That's right." Greyback said "Shocked you, didn't you, Dumbledore?" Scares you? ”
"I've never been afraid, I won't come when your master comes, let alone you...... There is no qualification that scares me! Dumbledore's tone was quite fearless now.
"If it weren't for you empty-handed......"
"So you're scared of even an old man with empty hands......" Dumbledore looked at a trembling Mia, "You're still a child, I think Hogwarts will still accept you." ”
"I can't ...... it"
Dumbledore smiled, "Of course, that's why I'm forgiving you. ”
"Why haven't you done it yet...... Do you want to alarm that kid? When the time comes, he won't have a good temper to talk to you. Snape walked over slowly, looking at them.
"Fast, of course...... I don't want to leave here and become a fugitive......"
"It's late at night and the students are sleeping......"
"What if the eldest young master of the Mephisto family is a bad boy and likes to go out late at night......"
The Death Eaters began to get restless, this time they had gone deep into the enemy camp, not only Dumbledore but also Sherlock.
Dumbledore glanced at Snape and finally seemed to use his last strength......
Severus ...... I ask you to ......"
Snape raised his wand and pointed it at Dumbledore.
"Avada suo!"
Dumbledore was knocked out of the way, breaking through the glass and falling, and the portraits on the walls screamed and panicked, hiding outside on other paintings, and even trying to ventilate others.
Harry could only see through the gap under the table that a lot of feet had rushed in at first, and then a green light had sent Harry's mood to a low point.
He thought of the most terrible result.
When the spell on the body slowly disappears, it means that the spell caster is dead.
Snape told the rest of the Death Eaters to leave, and he himself left.
When Harry crawled out, he saw the dead body of Dumbledore below.
He couldn't believe it, and then yelled loudly, feeling that it would wake up the others.
He saw the man in black running outside.
The thought of so many people coming in must have been the Death Eaters.
"Murderer...... Murderer! ”
Harry yelled and chased after him.
"It's that kid!" Bellatrix looked back, trying to kill Harry.
But halfway through, Harry was pulled by Snape.
"You're crazy!"
Snape looked at Harry.
Harry was shoved under the table by Dumbledore, so he didn't see that it was Snape who was the last to do it, and he thought the green light was from one of the Death Eaters.
"He's dead! Why don't you go and avenge him! ”
Snape didn't speak, but pulled him back.
"You can't do anything, you can't do anything!" Snape said.
At this time, a huge fireball flew through the sky, and the blazing heat seemed to burn the water vapor in the air.
Snape looked up, and the fireball flew in the same direction the Death Eaters had left.
"But he could!"