The Hogwarts campus, which had been bustling before, suddenly became deserted overnight.

There is no hustle and bustle, no laughter, no vitality.

With the students gone, the entire campus seemed lifeless.

Mr. Pringer, the caretaker, was a little tired with a mop, cleaning the castle, completely devoid of his usual interest. His pet, Mr. Tang, was lying on the side extremely lazily.

"Good morning, Jeffrey!" an old figure approached at this moment.

"Good morning, Professor Grindelwald!" Mr. Pringer cheered up.

"By the way, did you see Weta?" the headmaster paused and asked, "I didn't find her in her office." ”

"Professor Rozier, I seem to have just seen her in front of the Transfiguration office. Mr. Pringer replied with a slight bend.

"Okay, thank you!" Professor Grindelwald nodded at Mr. Pringer, looked at the mop in his hand, and added, "Good work!"

"This is what I should do!"

......

The headmaster walked unhurriedly through the corridors of the castle.

Five minutes later, he arrived at the Transfiguration Office, where he also found the Vice Principal.

Professor Weta Rozier, who is "forever young", is leaning on the window, quietly looking out of the window, as if in a daze.

"Weta!" she seemed to have just "woken up from a dream" as the headmaster whispered her name.

"Master Grindelwald!" she turned, bending slightly.

"What are you thinking?" said Grindelwald, like her, leaning against a nearby window, and at the same time asked very casually.

"I suddenly thought of Professor Troka. Professor Rozier whispered, "I wonder what happened to him?"

"I didn't expect you to care about Edward. Grindelwald's voice was slightly surprised: "I remember, you hate vampires the most in the night......"

"Of course!" Professor Rozier's voice suddenly became a little colder, which was a little unusual when she faced Professor Grindelwald, "I have never hidden my disgust for those disgusting creatures......"

“...... But Edward Troca, after all, is our man, he and I have been colleagues for more than half a year, and he has sacrificed so many ...... for us."

"Alright, I see, Vita. Grindelwald explained: "Edward's situation is very good, he has now fled to Belfast, where the influence of the Ministry of Magic is relatively weak, and there will be no danger in the short term, not to mention, we have been giving the Ministry of Magic information that he has appeared in Asia Minor......"

Rozier nodded: "I understand." ”

After a pause, she continued, "By the way, Lord Grindelwald, is there anything important that you came to me?"

"It's a little thing. Grindelwald sighed, "Vita, please take me into the Headmaster's Office." ”

This seems a bit bizarre, Gellert Grindelwald, as the headmaster of Hogwarts, wants to enter the headmaster's office, and actually asks for assistant headmaster Vita Rozier.

Moreover, Rozier did not seem to express any surprise at the incident.

She just walked calmly in front, "Please follow me, Lord Grindelwald." ”

......

The two stopped in front of a huge statue of a rising lion-headed beast.

If Matthew were here, he would be easily recognizable...... This statue is the one that sheltered him from Morgana's howl on Valentine's Day.

Rozier raised her wand and whispered a spell to the statue.

Grindelwald stood silently behind her.

The Rising Lion's head suddenly moved and leaped to the side, the wall behind it splitting in half.

Behind the wall is a spiral staircase, slowly moving upwards, like an escalator. Grindelwald took a few steps forward, following the spiral staircase, slowly ascending.

He spun higher and higher, higher and higher, until he came to a gleaming oak door.

Inside, without a doubt, is an extremely elaborate cottage.

The Headmaster's Office was a large, beautiful circular room, but judging by the heavy dust around it, it seemed to have been uninhabited for a long time.

The walls are covered with portraits of the old headmasters, all of whom are snoring softly in their frames.

But Gellert Grindelwald entered, seemingly interrupting the silence in the headmaster's office.

The sleeping wizards on the wall woke up one after another, glaring at the "intruder", and even many old wizards began to curse:

"Murderer!"

"Butcher!"

"Get out of here at Hogwarts!"

"Don't defile here!"

......

It's a pity that Grindelwald is completely deaf to these scoldings.

He walked into the principal's office in a few steps, opened the drawer of his desk, and took out a small, silver lighter (light out).

Waiting for those predecessors, former principals, after scolding tired......

Wait until it's quieter......

Grindelwald waved his hand, and the curtains were all drawn.

Then he flicked the lights out slightly, only to hear a few consecutive "clicks", and all the lights in the room were extinguished.

Only the light extinguisher remains, a very faint little point of light -

"Long time no see!" Grindelwald said with a smile as he looked at the little dot of light.

In the point of light, a weak voice was heard: "Grindelwald...... Kill me......"

It was almost exactly the same as Morgana's voice that day.

"I'm sorry. Grindelwald shook his head with some regret: "I have always respected the truly great wizards in history. Since Merlin didn't choose to kill you back then, I will naturally respect his choice now...... So kill you, I can't do it......"

"Also, Ms. Morgana, what I asked you to think about a few months ago ......"

"You think that's ...... I'll give in......" Morgana's voice was weak, but unusually firm: "It can't be...... I would never ......"

"Then I'll only give you a few more months to think about it!" Grindelwald sighed and put the lights out back in the drawer.

However, Morgana's voice suddenly sounded again:

"You won...... Grindelwald ...... Your trap caught me off guard......"

The witch's voice suddenly became a little more sarcastic: "But so what, do you think you are different from me? You are just a little better than me...... In fact, we're all just 'people in the trap'......"

Gellert Grindelwald's face did not fluctuate.

"So what?"

He closed the drawer, then strode out of the place.

(End of Volume 1)