Master Druid at Hogwarts

Chapter 771 The Price of Being the Dark Lord
"Albus, Grindelwald lives here meow?"

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Fish raised his head, looked at the dark and gloomy tower in front of him, and asked curiously: "But it doesn't look like there is anyone cleaning here."

"Because Gellert is the only person being imprisoned here now," Dumbledore explained softly, "Therefore, not only are there no other prisoners, but there are also no guards arranged here, and it operates entirely on the magic set by Gellert himself. Meals are brought straight in by the house-elves."

"Magic set by Grindelwald himself?"

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Fish scratched his head, then shook his ears twice and asked in surprise: "He can't even dispel the magic he set up meow? Obviously he is so powerful in your memory."

"Because his wand is in my hand now." Dumbledore shook the old wand in his hand, "Besides, I don't think Gellert is really trapped by his own magic. able to come out."

"In that case, why didn't he escape?" Fish tilted his head puzzled.

Dumbledore raised his head, looked at the line of text above the entrance, and said with emotion: "He probably just... simply doesn't want to come out..."

"Why meow? It's so boring inside, there's no one else to play with him." Fish didn't understand even more.

Although most of the time, Maomao can sleep on his stomach alone, or just find something to kill a lot of time, but he still prefers to spend time with Professor McGonagall, Hermione, and other friends. stay together.

This time, Dumbledore just smiled lightly, and instead of answering Maomao's question, he led him directly to the interior of Nurmengard.

"This question, when you see Gellert, you can ask him yourself."

When the two passed through the wide-open door, the air rippled like water waves, and a cold feeling similar to passing through platform nine and three-quarters swept across Fish's body, making the cat The cat shivered subconsciously, and the hairs on its ears and tail stood up involuntarily.

The inside of the tower is as dilapidated as the outside, full of dust and cobwebs, and the monotonous black stone slabs separate dark and narrow rooms one after another. Each room has only a simple hard bed, and nothing else. No.

"Luminescence." Dumbledore lit his wand.

After all, he is not like Fish, who can see the road clearly in this dim environment.

Dumbledore, holding his wand high, walked straight to the black stone steps in the corner, and said to Fish as he walked, "Come with me, Gellert lives on the top floor here."

The monotonous environment in the tower made Maomao quickly lose interest, so after looking around, he obediently followed Dumbledore and walked upstairs with him.

Dumbledore's pace wasn't fast, but it wasn't too slow either, but Mao Mao didn't have the patience to accompany him up the stairs slowly. After saying "Fisch, go up and see meow", Mao Mao passed slowly. Dumbledore sprinted towards the top floor.

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Even though he didn't cast an additional acceleration spell for himself, it didn't take much time to climb the ten or so floors of stairs at Fisch's speed, so he reached the top of the black tower in a short while.

There is only one prison cell on the top floor of the tower, which is tightly sealed by a wooden door covered with thick iron sheets. The wooden door doesn't show any signs of decay, and it's even hard to find a bug hole on it.

Fish stood in front of the door and looked around, and found that the door didn't even have a hinge, let alone a lock. The whole door seemed to be completely embedded in the surrounding black stone slabs, and there was no way to open it.

"Meow?" Maomao tilted its head in doubt, then pulled out its wand, "Alahoo hole is open! Meow!"

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The door remained motionless as a matter of course. For a wizarding prison, the anti-alahoo hole spell was the basic of the basics.

But it didn't bother Fish, even though he hadn't used that trick for a long time, it didn't mean Maomao forgot.

Fish put his wand back into his pocket first, then opened his hands, sharp claws slowly grew out from the fingertips, and then Mao Mao easily pierced these claws into the gaps on both sides of the wooden door...

[Claw of the Beast] + [Ant Power] + [Brute Force of the Bull] + [Wild Power] =
Fish McGonagall Door Opener!

"Meow!"

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With a vigorous lift of both arms, Maomao completely dismantled the heavy wooden door without a lock or hinge.

"Hey!"

Throwing the wooden door aside casually, Fish walked into the cell while clapping his hands.

The cell on the top floor is no different from the ones below, it is still dark and narrow, and there is only a small hard bed, there is no window in the room, or in other words, there is an extremely narrow gap between those black stones, it should be It's called a window.

Faint moonlight penetrated through the gap, shining a light spot on the floor that was no bigger than a palm.

On the only hard plank bed in the room, an old man with a thin blanket was looking at Fisher who suddenly barged in with a surprised face.

The old man was skinny, with sunken eye sockets, and almost lost all his hair and teeth. He looked like a skeleton, not at all the wild look that Dumbledore remembered.

"Meow?"

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Fish scratched his hair, looked at the old man in front of him, and suspected that he might have found the wrong place.

"I think...you are the Fish McGonagall that Albus mentioned?" The skeleton-like old man spoke first.

"That's right, meow," Maomao nodded its head, leaned in front of the old man, and asked curiously, "You are Grindelwald meow? It looks different from the one in Albus's memory..."

"At this time, no one should want the identity of Gellert Grindelwald." Grindelwald grinned and replied with a smile.

However, Fish still couldn't believe it, because the difference in appearance between the two was too great. He tilted his head and carefully looked at the old man in front of him, and finally his eyes fell on the other's bald head...

"Voldemort doesn't look like meow when he was young! Does he have no hair after becoming the Dark Lord?"

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Mao Mao suddenly realized.

Grindelwald's wrinkled cheeks twitched slightly, and he replied dumbfoundedly: "I don't know what happened to Voldemort. My hair is gone, it's just because I'm old."

"But...Albus has a lot of hair, and Newt and Tina are not bald, and Geselda, who is older than Albus, also has a lot of hair. Although Felius is bald in the middle, his ears There are still hairs on both sides, and he has the blood of goblins, most goblins don't have hair meow!"

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Mao Mao gave an example very seriously.

"Well... this problem varies from person to person," Grindelwald was not angry, but happily discussed the issue of hair with Fish, "Some people lose almost all their hair at a young age. They didn't become some sort of Dark Lord either, did they?"

Fish carefully recalled that Professor Tofty, who invigilated their OWL exam with Geselda March class, didn't have much hair, and Ron's father, Arthur Weasley, also had shorter hair than many people. It is much more sparse. Besides, it is not uncommon for Fish to see people who are only 50 or [-] years old with bare heads...

"It makes sense meow!"

Maomao nodded her head in agreement, secretly heaving a sigh of relief...

In Rita Skeeter's report, she referred to herself as the third-generation Dark Lord, so Mao Mao was very worried just now if she was really regarded as the third-generation Dark Lord by others in the future, causing her hair to fall out What to do with light.

After solving the hair problem that Fish thought was very serious, Maomao began to ask Grindelwald various questions.

For example, what does he usually do to pass the time here, what does he eat for three meals a day, who else has visited him besides himself and Dumbledore, and so on.

After Grindelwald gave the answers one by one, Fisher's face was instantly filled with puzzlement and surprise.

"How did you stay in such a boring place for so long, meow?!"

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Mao Mao also asked him the question he had asked Dumbledore before: "Why don't you escape? Albus said that the magic here is set by yourself, and it should not be able to stop your cat." .”

"Because... even if I go out, there is nowhere to go..." Grindelwald said in a low voice, "I have lost everything, so there is no difference between here and other places."

"But Fish doesn't think you have nothing."

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Maomao looked at Grindelwald, and said seriously: "Albus has always remembered you, Meow, and Fisher thinks that if you come out, he should take your Meow in."

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　In the original book, Voldemort flew around the outside of Nurmengard several times before entering it, and he did not deliberately suppress his voice when he was talking to Grindelwald, but no one else came in to disturb him during the conversation...

　　If it wasn't Rowling's mistake, it's probably because there is no one else in Nurmengadry except Grindelwald. It's probably because he has been in prison for decades, so he is too lazy to waste manpower on him.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)