harry potter book of crimes

When Maka was exchanging information with Sirius, somewhere in the basement of an old wizard's mansion.

"...Your Excellency Greenwald, the research has made great progress, and our original goal has come to an end! Now that you have come out, why don't you lead us to restart the reform like you did back then?"

In this dark basement, a white-haired old wizard wearing a wide wizard robe with his hair tied back randomly was waving his arms and shouting at the wall with a crazy look on his face.

And just above the moss-covered brick wall, there was hanging a mercury mirror that glowed black and purple and had some kind of magic spell attached to it.

Just in that mirror, a blurry figure seemed to be looking faintly ahead.

"Your Excellency Grindelwald! Why don't you speak?" the old wizard said frantically, "Didn't you say that back then? We will no longer have to huddle under the jurisdiction of others, and we will no longer have to be like the rats who surrendered themselves to the sewers.

Living the same life, we will no longer have to hide our true selves!”

"But now, why should we stagnate? You have already emerged from Dumbledore's restraint! What else do we have to fear?"

"Look at that junior from England. Not long ago, he even dared to attack Hogwarts when Dumbledore was still there! Now Dumbledore is gone!"

"Sir Greenwald, do we need to continue to be afraid? What are we afraid of? In the past... if only in the past... Your Excellency, you were fearless even when you were arrested by MACUSA!"

The old wizard's eyes widened, and the manic contentment seemed to overflow from his heart.

Fifty-three years! Greenwald was defeated by Dumbledore, and the entire "reform" was forced to disappear. However, his most loyal and talented follower never gave up and stayed dormant in the United States for five full years.

Thirteen years!

During these fifty-three years, he was carefully preparing everything all the time. Even though he lost everything with the collapse of Greenwald, he was still working hard.

At that time, it was he and Greenwald who started the research project on the Obscurials, and during these fifty-three years, he has been persisting in it.

No matter how difficult the research environment was, no matter how difficult it was to raise funds, he never thought of giving up.

However, although his talent in magical research surpasses that of many ordinary wizards, he is still far beyond the reach of magical geniuses like Grindelwald and Dumbledore.

As Maca commented on his research, his research results were quite "boring". But in fact, he himself was not unaware of this.

During the first thirty years that he hid in the Muggle world, he conducted thousands of tests and analyzes on the strange energy in the Obscurial Ones day and night, tens of thousands of times.

However, the theoretical knowledge of magic he possessed was not enough for him to understand the nature of that energy from the beginning.

When a researcher doesn't even know "what" the research object is, just trying to take the first step will be like walking on thin ice, let alone the road to follow.

Often after walking a long distance, he will realize in the process that he actually took the wrong step in the first step!

However, he happens to be a "hard-working genius". His extraordinary perseverance makes him never give up. If he takes the wrong path, he will start all over again.

Because of this, more than thirty years of his life were wasted on meaningless wandering.

It was not until he failed countless times that he suddenly realized that he seemed to have embarked on a completely unnecessary and difficult path of inquiry.

It was that "sudden awakening" that made him change the object of his research.

Yes, he no longer studies that weird energy, but instead changes the research object to the carrier of that energy, which is the Obscurus itself!

As a magic researcher, he naturally understands that this is undoubtedly a path that betrays the spirit of magic research; but he also understands that this is definitely a "shortcut" for him!

Even if it's boring, what he needs, what Greenwald needs, is just the results of research. In this regard, he thinks he is absolutely right.

Therefore, during the last twenty years of his dormancy in the United States, he poured his perseverance and determination into batches of children.

Not to mention the cruel behavior he did to those children as a researcher, in terms of "love" for those children, he, who has never been married in his life, is no less than any other pair of parents.

Even though the "love" in his heart is an extremely twisted "love".

In this way, fifty-three years have passed. With the help of the dark magic created by a few people and his careful "transformation" of those children, the final fruits are finally about to be harvested!

And just at this moment, Dumbledore happened to die!

Overjoyed, he immediately went to Germany. After discovering that there were magic and giant guards set up by Dumbledore, he desperately contacted Voldemort.

After many twists and turns, the great dark wizard he once admired the most finally stepped out of Nurmengard.

But he never expected that the object of his worship seemed to have undergone some inexplicable changes during the entire fifty-three years he was imprisoned on the top floor of Nurmengard Tower.

He didn't realize it at first, because the joy of reunion made him forget everything.

When they met again at the German border for the first time, he could not help but marvel at the changes in Lord Grindelwald, because he felt that the dark wizard seemed to be more powerful now than fifty-three years ago.

But just recently, he finally realized that the will of Mr. Greenwald had disappeared!

Let's not mention the previous series of instructions, let's talk about this time - isn't it just that a young wizard who can train magical creatures has come? Why does Mr. Greenwald give in so repeatedly?

Not only did he order him to abandon four "very obedient children", but he was also ordered to move his base immediately? These are all the hard work he has worked hard to manage alone over the years!

But the other party is Your Excellency Greenwald. Even if there are some changes, you are still Your Excellency.

He is a person who can work hard on a research project for fifty-three years, and he will not change his original intention because of this incident. Deep in his heart, he still firmly believes that Mr. Greenwald will come back!

"...Your Excellency Greenwald, our Obscurial Army is almost complete! We can use this force to calm all opposing voices! We will realize your original great ideal!"

The old wizard opened his arms and expressed the turmoil in his heart in an extremely passionate voice. He stared closely at the blurry figure in the mirror, his bloodshot eyes filled with an extremely repressed madness.

"Your Excellency Gellert Greenwald! Your Excellency Gellert Greenwald!" He once again shouted the greatest name in his mind.

"...Lenny."

From that mirror, a voice came out for the first time today. Even though the voice sounded a little muddy and even a little difficult to distinguish, the old wizard in front of the mirror was still very excited.

"You...went the wrong way."

"Your Excellency?" The white-haired old wizard Lenny paused, a trace of doubt mixed with the madness on his face.

"No, it's not that you took the wrong path..." The figure in the mirror shook his head slightly and said softly, "You did very well, very well! At least, if it were me back then, I would definitely be grateful for your perseverance and

I am very happy with the results. You have thought through my original ideals very thoroughly, and you have exceeded the expectations I gave you back then..."

"However, this path is wrong, inadequate, and... very childish." Greenwald in the mirror said calmly, "Yes, this is all because of me - the person who was not yet a child back then.

The mature me made you take the wrong path."

"Grindelwald...Your Excellency?" The old wizard Lenny's madness was gone. He just stared blankly at the mirror in front of him, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Lenny, my old friend—"

Greenwald's voice was still a little blurry, but his next words seemed to be a dull knife cutting into old Lennie's heart, tearing his admiration for Greenwald into scars.

"In the fifty-three years he has been in the Nurmengard Tower, Albus has only visited me once." Grindelwald said quietly, "Just recently, just recently... Do you know what he said to me?

?”

"He said that my original idea and his were not wrong. We wizards are different from ordinary people from beginning to end. However, what I did was wrong, and it was extremely wrong."

"Wizards are lonely and will eventually move forward desperately on the road of magic, but this does not mean that we are superior to Muggles. We have our own path to take, and Muggles also have theirs.

My own life journey.”

At this point, Greenwald's voice suddenly became a little strange, as if a new will was rising in his heart.

"Lenny," he suddenly changed his voice, with a hint of solemnity in his tone, "I'm very sorry to you. I wasted your life...because of you..."

"...just an ordinary wizard who can be seen everywhere."

Before he finished speaking, with a crisp "click" sound, the magic mercury mirror suddenly cracked a gap, and spread to every corner of the mirror in an instant.

Then, the entire mirror fell off the brick wall with a crash and turned into fragments on the ground.

In the basement, old Lennie stood blankly in front of the moss-covered brick wall, his pupils in a daze. After a long time, he slowly closed his eyes, and after a moment of silence, he opened his eyes again.

But he broke out into an almost pathological madness.