Chapter 17: The Pink Toad Who Deserves to Be Scolded
Over the next few days, Harley began a regular life of studying magic with Grindelwald.
Although Grindelwald seems to have seen someone in Harley's body, he somehow doesn't like Harley.
But when it comes to teaching, he's still very serious.
And the teaching process is also very simple, Grindelwald constantly teaches Harley to use the Fire Charm, and even teaches Harley his understanding of the bottom of the fire curse.
But Hallie wasn't just learning the dark arts repeatedly.
When using the Fire Charm, Grindelwald asked Harley to concentrate on her entire energy and carefully feel the negative emotions of "wanting to destroy everything", "wanting to destroy everything", and "wanting to see the world burning" that arise when using the Fire Charm.
While feeling these negative emotions, Harley also needs to maintain her good emotions and pure heart, and not be disturbed by negative emotions.
In terms of how to get rid of the erosion of negative emotions, Grindelwald thinks it is very similar to Occlumency.
The usual way for ordinary wizards to learn Occlumency is to master a few small tricks to empty their brains, and then have outsiders constantly use the Dementor Charm to create distractions on them, so as to practice the magic.
Now Grindelwald's training is based on the same principle, except that the emotional pollution from the dark arts cannot be released by others, but becomes Hallie's own creation, and then fights it herself.
Professor Dumbledore, who was on the sidelines, didn't fully embrace this training method, even if Grindelwald used Occlumency as an example.
After all, even if you can't learn the Occlumency Technique, the Celestial Mind will not cause irreversible harm to the cursed, and at most it will only produce some sequelae that can be cured by potions.
But if Harley was really eroded by the negativity of the dark arts...... That's a lot of fun, and I'm going to accelerate the realization of what I'm worried about.
However, out of unconditional trust in Grindelwald and affirmation of Harry's magical skills, Professor Dumbledore did not say much.
For this training, Harley really felt that it was useless work.
Don't you need to get rid of the influence of black magic? These black magic have no effect on you at all!
Just kidding, is the pollution of the mind by a few negative emotions comparable to the pollution caused by a hair of an angel on earth?
Moreover, the extraordinary person of the witch path needs to endure the erosion of various negative emotions such as despair and pain for a long time, and the slightest carelessness will get out of control.
Harley felt that she had come all the way, and now that she was an angel on earth, there should be no existence other than the old days and the true gods that had the power to erode her.
On the contrary, it was the knowledge of the fire spell that Grindelwald mentioned when he taught himself, which really benefited Harley a lot.
While Harley did learn a lot of the most sinister dark magic in Sirius' Black House library, including the Fire Charm, it was too traditional and even a little outdated.
Grindelwald has a whole new development on the Fire Charm.
He made his fire multiply faster, and he was more violent in the face of others, but he was more docile and easier to control when facing the spellcaster, avoiding the phenomenon of the fire devouring the lord as much as possible.
Grindelwald can even use the fires he summons to discern who is loyal to him, distinguishing between traitors, enemies, and loyal followers.
Although Grindelwald has this ability, the most important reason is that he has gained from the waters infested by the Turbid Sea.
However, Grindelwald continued to study and successfully summed up certain magical skills.
The stones of other mountains can be used to attack jade.
Now Harley is already thinking about how to combine the fire with various natural disasters such as fire meteors, sky fire, and flames attached to magma to create even more powerful natural disasters.
In addition to teaching Hallie magic to him, Grindelwald spent the rest of his time reading newspapers and books on his own.
Professor Dumbledore was obviously very busy, and had to ask Fawkes to take him out of here every day, only occasionally returning to rest and rub off on Greenwood's afternoon tea.
Grindelwald's afternoon tea was much more delicious than the one Professor Dumbledore could enjoy, after all, the French Ministry of Magic had hired a bunch of Muggle chefs to make pastries for Grindelwald in order to ensure the safety of Paris.
At this time, Grindelwald would pull Professor Dumbledore to bask in the sun on the roof of the Newmengard Tower, while drinking tea and chatting.
Obviously, the two old men enjoyed this leisurely pace of life, and even wished that the days would be so peaceful forever.
But this is obviously impossible, and a letter from an owl and a copy of the Daily Prophet from England finally broke the leisure life.
In today's paper, Secretary Fudge appeared on the front page with a smile on his face, but his smile looked a little forced.
He announced a major event in the newspapers - Fudge officially removed Professor Dumbledore from the United Kingdom representative of the International Confederation of Wizards, and directly caused Professor Dumbledore to lose his position as President of the International Confederation of Wizards.
After all, the president of the federation can only be a member of the federation, and the members of the International Federation of Wizards are representatives of the ministries of magic of each country, and they are directly appointed and dismissed by the minister of magic.
Therefore, as long as Fudge canceled Dumbledore's status as the British representative, then his position as president of the International Federation of Wizards would naturally disappear.
In fact, Fudge also attempted to remove Professor Dumbledore's other statuses, such as the position of Chief Wizard of the Wizengamot in England.
Moreover, most of the pure-blood family members were more cooperative with Fudge, and more than half of the members of the Wizengamory chose to vote against Dumbledore after receiving the accusations from Fudge.
However, when the votes were finally counted, about two-fifths of the wizards chose to vote for Professor Dumbledore.
Some of the votes in favor of Professor Dumbledore belonged to certain wizards who were friends with Dumbledore, such as Miss Marchiban and Mr. Tofodi.
Although they are also purebloods, so they can enter the Wizengamot, but it does not prevent them from standing by Professor Dumbledore's side and supporting him all the time.
In addition, there were many originally neutral purebloods who chose to vote for Professor Dumbledore, and it is not known what made them make this decision.
It was these votes that allowed Professor Dumbledore to stay in Wizengamory and continue to serve as the Chief Wizard.
This made Fudge's teeth itch, after all, the head of the Wizengamot in the United Kingdom belonged to the tenure system, and was not a subordinate body of the Ministry of Magic.
Unless more than two-thirds of the members agree to step down the chief, there is nothing anyone can do.
Fudge could only be furious at this, and felt horrified that his minister's power and deterrence seemed to be dwindling.
After reading the news in the newspapers and the letters sent by the wizards who were friends with Professor Dumbledore, Grindelwald was shocked:
"How dare this group of people from the British Ministry of Magic? Aren't they afraid that you will kill them? I really don't know who gave them the courage to do this to you. ”
Professor Dumbledore shook his head, "Gellert, you know I won't do this. ”
"Although I now start to hate Fudge as a person, what I hate is that he doesn't care about the big picture, the future of the wizarding world, and he is selfish and greedy for power."
"But his actions are within the rules, and they don't violate the laws of the Ministry of Magic or the regulations of the International Federation of Wizards."
"So I don't think I have any reason to resist, especially with violence and magic."
"Yes, I almost forgot that you were a good man." Grindelwald said in an unkind tone,
"Good people should be pointed at a wand anyway, they don't have the guts to point a wand at a dark wizard."
"If I replace you with me, I'm afraid I will lend them another guts, and they won't dare to do it."
"Take a step back, if you were that waste dark wizard Voldemort in England, they probably wouldn't dare to put a fart."
"So you're a prisoner now, Tom is hiding, and I'm the Headmaster of Hogwarts." Professor Dumbledore shook his head.
"Humph!" Grindelwald snorted coldly,
"If you hadn't stopped me, I would have completely unified the wizarding and Muggle worlds and established a society where strength reigns supreme."
"When the time comes, how can there be such a corpse vegetarian insect?"
"It's a pity that you didn't want to help me in the first place......"
Grindelwald's old face suddenly turned white, and he realized that he had said the wrong thing.
He coughed vigorously and looked at Dumbledore with a weak heart.
Harley, who was reading the notes of the Fire Spell written by Grindelwald himself, also subconsciously stopped flipping through the notes, and her ears trembled slightly under her hair.
She quietly turned her gaze to the two of them, and for the first time read a hint of remorse and fear in Grindelwald's always confident eyes.
Harry thought for a moment, and finally remembered the stories Professor Dumbledore had told him after she had fought him head-on a year ago.
Hiss~!
Mr. Grindelwald seems to have stepped on a thunderbolt.
Professor Dumbledore seemed to remember something, his blue eyes slowly closing, and he fell silent.
The room was silent, and the sound of flying insects flapping their wings outside could be heard clearly.
"I'm sorry, Albus." Grindelwald cautiously probed and lowered his head.
However, under the cover of the hair on his forehead, he quietly turned his gaze from time to time, quickly glanced at Professor Dumbledore, and then looked away.
Somehow, Harley felt as if he was a child who had made a mistake, facing his angry old father.
"You don't need to apologize, I was the one who was wrong."
Professor Dumbledore finally spoke, but his voice was slightly dry and full of remorse,
"Everything was because of me, it was me who was sorry for my mother, sorry for Aberforth, sorry for you, and even more sorry...... Ariana. ”
Seeing that the atmosphere was trending in a dangerous direction, Harley hurriedly opened her mouth to change the subject:
"Professor, who is the current president of the International Federation of Wizards?"
"It's not confirmed yet." When Professor Dumbledore heard Harry's voice, he subconsciously replied,
"The federation does not have the position of vice president, so it takes a long time to determine a new president or acting president."
"Even the joint meeting that was supposed to take place this summer was postponed to next year because of me."
Harley couldn't help but shake her head, she didn't have to think about it, and she knew that the year of postponement was probably the time to get votes for the wizards who wanted to run.
After all, only those who receive more than half of the votes are eligible to serve as the president of the federation.
Harley remembered that there was a time in the history of magic where it took five years to elect a president.
It can only be said that the representatives of these sub-countries are not very good at magic, but in terms of competing for interests, they can really use any move.
"Speaking of which, I don't know who the UK is represented right now." Grindelwald also picked up the topic and quickly opened the newspaper,
"Let me see...... Dolores Umbridge? Who is she? ”
"A woman with a very strong desire for power." Hallie remembered the disgusting woman she had ever seen,
"I like to kneel and lick Fudge very much, so I can become a senior deputy minister of the Ministry of Magic. She was able to steal the position of British representative, probably through the back door. ”
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Despite the loss of Professor Dumbledore's chairmanship, the members of the Confederation respected him and did not expel him from Newmengard.
Of course, there is a more important reason for their move.
Just kidding, if you really drove Dumbledore away, who would guard Grindelwald? Did you go by the man who proposed to drive Dumbledore away?
As soon as this was said, no one proposed to target Dumbledore.
Although everyone wants to fight for as many interests as possible and carve up more power.
But in this kind of life-related matter, these politicians are still relatively clear.
Even at the recent informal meeting to elect the president, there was a proposal for Dumbledore to continue to be the president.
Umbridge voted against it firmly, and volunteered to "selflessly" take on Dumbledore's former duties.
But the other members of the International Federation of Wizards directly scolded her, after all, who knows you? Do you deserve it?
There were even a few Dumbledore's admirers who directly launched a spiritual verbal attack on Umbridge, scolding her with a bloody squirt.
If you are honest and be a puppet and a puppet, no one will target you.
But if you come to show your head and scold yourself...... Don't blame this group of political hooligans for being ruthless.
Where has Umbridge ever seen such a scene?
Most of the officials in the British Ministry of Magic are members of pure-blood families, and they claim to be nobles, so they naturally want to be civilized with each other.
So although many people are unhappy with Umbridge, thinking that she slipped away and crossed the river and demolished the bridge, which violated her own interests, she did not scold her directly.
This caused the old woman who thought she was a little girl to collapse directly in her heart when she was scolded, and escaped all the way out of the meeting hall.
And those wizards still felt that they hadn't said it was enjoyable, so they directly used magic to conjure up a few loudspeakers, chasing Umbridge all the way and scolding.
And the other members just watched this scene coldly, and no one stopped it.
Do you really think this is you in the UK, and everyone has to get used to you? If we don't beat you, we're afraid of getting our hands dirty!
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…… (End of chapter)