Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 100: Tower
Two hours later, we turned our attention to Austria——
……
This is a gloomy and forbidding tower.
From a distance, it looks like an extremely strong fortress, and it also looks like a big can completely wrapped in iron sheets.
The fortress was on a not too high cliff, but within a few miles around this cliff, it was a complete desert, except for the occasional ruins, there was no life to be seen.
There is only one very rugged mountain road leading to the tower.
This cold, pitch-black tower far away from human habitation has a well-known name in the wizarding world:
"Numengard!"
Nurmengard is a prison, a prison specially used to detain dark wizards.
His initial time as a prison was around 1939.
The most terrifying dark wizard of the century, Albus Dumbledore, was imprisoned in this prison.
Since then, there have been fewer and fewer prisoners in the prison... Some have died, and some have been transferred to other wizarding prisons across Europe.
It's just that the most notorious dark wizard is still locked up here, on the top floor of the tower.
Some people say that this place was abandoned many years ago.
However, those in the know know very well that this prison can operate automatically without guards.
As long as its creator, Gellert Grindelwald, the greatest wizard of the 20th century, is alive!
is enough.
Even though it is late at night, the line of words engraved above the entrance of Nurmengard is still shining with a faint light:
"For the greater good!"
……
However, at the top of the tower, it is a completely different scene.
Two gray-haired old men, facing each other, sat in front of a fire.
One is ragged and the other is well-dressed.
One is very old, skinny, and looks weak at the same time; the other has white hair and a young face, heroic and vigorous, and still has an extraordinary temperament!
One is the most notorious dark wizard of the 20th century, and the other is the most widely acclaimed great wizard of the 20th century.
Albus Dumbledore, with Gellert Grindelwald.
Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for you to associate these two wizards together, they belong to people from completely different worlds.
But now, they are chatting.
Like many old friends for many years, very casual, very ordinary, unrestrained...
Moreover, it was Grindelwald who was speaking impassionedly, while Dumbledore was listening quietly.
Before them stood two small wine glasses, and a bottle of mead; and a large basket of sweets of various kinds.
……
"...It's that simple, the most powerful dark witch in the history of British magic, so easily defeated by me!" Grindelwald's voice was loud, while he was fiddling with a silver lamp in his hand device.
If any wizard who knew Grindelwald was here, he would be surprised at this moment.
Because they will see that the president of the International Federation of Wizards, chief of the Wizengamot, and the greatest wizard of our time, is talking about his recent experience in a showy tone.
"That's it?"
However, Albus Dumbledore lowered his head, his expression seemed to be somewhat disdainful.
"That's right!" Grindelwald snorted coldly: "Could it be that my plan is not perfect? Is my method not clever enough? Don't you have any better ideas?"
"It's enough to deceive an old witch who has been imprisoned by Merlin for thousands of years!" Dumbledore still did not raise his head: "I can find at least six or seven loopholes in it!"
"It is precisely because she has been imprisoned by Merlin for thousands of years and has lost the dignity of a true wizard that I have the confidence to deal with her in this way!" Grindelwald did not feel offended, but Calmly explained.
"So, Gellert, you don't take Hogwarts seriously at all!" Dumbledore suddenly raised his head, and said coldly:
"You don't care about the lives of Hogwarts students at all, you have put them in extreme danger for such a long time in the past; in your eyes, they are just tools to achieve your goals... Their life and death can be used to exchange benefits for you..."
Grindelwald was silent for a moment.
Then, he stood up and raised his head proudly: "Albus, wouldn't you choose that?"
"Of course I won't!" Dumbledore said firmly.
Grindelwald retorted unceremoniously: "If you were in my position, do you think you would not be able to put the students in extreme danger? Do you think you would not let the students be used to achieve your goals tool? Do you think you will not exchange the life and death of the students for a greater benefit?"
This time it was Dumbledore's turn to be silent.
"At least I won't ignore the lives of Hogwarts students!" After a moment of silence, Dumbledore retorted again.
"I didn't care about their lives!" Grindelwald snorted coldly: "If that old hag really wants to kill those two first-grade children, I will do the same in advance!"
Dumbledore bowed his head again.
Because he knows that what Grindelwald said is true!
"We are the same kind of people, Albus." Grindelwald continued: "We are the same kind of people from beginning to end..."
"We have never been the same people!" Dumbledore said decisively without hesitation~IndoMTL.com~.
"Why do you keep denying such a fact!" Grindelwald was suddenly discouraged, and he sat down on the ground:
"Forty-seven years, Albus... I've imprisoned you here for forty-seven years... Forty-seven years, isn't it enough for you to figure it out?"
"I thought it through... from beginning to end!" Dumbledore said again.
"It seems that you are still unwilling to give up after all..." Grindelwald sighed.
He picked up the mead on the ground and poured a glass for Dumbledore and himself.
As for Dumbledore, he drank it down without hesitation.
……
"Let's change the topic to something lighter!"
Grindelwald also drank his glass of mead.
"A light topic?" Dumbledore didn't look very interested.
"Yeah..." Grindelwald nodded: "A very interesting thing... This time I went back to Hogwarts, and I met a very interesting little guy..."
While pouring the wine, Gellert Grindelwald said relaxedly.
It can be seen that he is indeed unguarded.
But he was facing Albus Dumbledore, but it was different.
A gleam of light suddenly flashed from the corners of his wrinkled eyes.