Starting Over at Hogwarts

What is a person's ideal?

Grindelwald's eyes suddenly became dazed.

It always feels absurd when a young man asks an old man about his ideals. Normally, it is the old man who asks about the young man's ideals, because most of the old man's ideals cannot be realized or have already been realized.

However, the problem is very heavy.

Facing the immature boy Wesen Wright, Grindelwald, who had experienced many ups and downs, did not want to give a wrong answer, because any answer might change the fate of the gray-haired boy.

"I once wanted to change the world."

Grindelwald looked at the sea under the dark night, his voice gradually became gentler, and he told the story of his youth in a casual manner: "I used to think that the direction of this world would lead to our destruction. I want to change the whole world and make it go in the direction it should go.”

"What now?"

Weissen Wright couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

"Little guy, I'm old."

Grindelwald looked at the sea and continued softly: "For an old man, it would be more sad to ask him about his current ideals than to talk about his unfulfilled ideals in the past... If I really say it, I hope magic dies. The day will never come, how can this be avoided?"

When Grindelwald talked about these things, there was even a faint sense of powerlessness in his voice: "Since our time, Muggles have become more and more intelligent, and their knowledge and culture are slowly surpassing ours. Their weapons They are becoming more and more powerful, and they slowly have the power to destroy the entire world..."

"At that time, I no longer knew what else I could do. The war between Muggles was almost over. Once the magical world was exposed in the Muggle world, it would become the prey of the Muggles, but we There is nothing I can do but wait quietly for Dumbledore's battle and the wizard's demise..."

"Even if Dumbledore's students later caused a lot of trouble, and many unwilling wizards went to him, they could only attack a village, a street, or a city. For the large number of Muggles, they The trouble it caused was just a trivial matter."

"There may not be a Dumbledore among ten thousand wizards. However, even if every wizard can be like Dumbledore, they can't resist Muggle weapons that can destroy a city with one blow. They will never stop Progress, but we can only hide ourselves deeper and deeper until the day comes when the wizards die..."

"…Wait a mininute."

Wesen Wright interrupted Grindelwald and suddenly said: "Did Mr. Grindelwald give up his ideals because Muggles invented weapons that can destroy the world?"

"Little guy, trust me."

Grindelwald turned his head and glanced at Wesson Wright, with a touch of pain and concentration in his eyes: "You never want to experience that feeling, that kind of powerlessness when you already know the ending..."

That feeling...

Grindelwald experienced it firsthand.

When he was still a powerful figure all over the world, and even wanted to resist the pressure and continue to launch a war between wizards and Muggles, his subordinates told him that the prophecy made in 1927 had come true. .

News came from the United States Ministry of Magic that Muggles had developed a weapon that could kill hundreds of thousands and destroy a huge city with one strike. Many wizards called them the pioneers of the wizarding world. Grindelwald immediately realized a problem.

The winner of the war…

It can't be a wizard.

At least wizards will never be able to rule Muggles.

Even if a wizard is powerful enough to destroy a city with magic, it will never be able to change the outcome, because there are only two wizards who can do this, Dumbledore and Grindelwald, while Muggles can Such powerful weapons have been continuously produced.

"Just because of this?"

Wesen Wright looked at the old-looking Grindelwald and continued softly: "So, Mr. Grindelwald thinks that once it is impossible for wizards to defeat ordinary humans, they will die sooner or later?"

"I've been staying in the tower."

Grindelwald sighed and looked at the sea and continued: "Little guy, you should have seen more than me. The Muggle world is progressing very quickly. Maybe now they have surpassed wizards. Sooner or later, there will be such a day. When wizards no longer aspire to magic and become wizards, but choose to put down their wands and become Muggles..."

This is the general trend.

Because any wizard can pretend to be an ordinary human at any time.

In the future, these wizards living in the magic world will increasingly envy the lives of ordinary humans. Even now, this trend has already begun. Sooner or later, they will leave the magic world and integrate into the world of ordinary people.

Even some tools invented by ordinary humans are more practical than magic. The Ministry of Magic has begun to prohibit the misuse of Muggle items, even though the director of this department, Arthur Weasley, is also a wizard who likes Muggle items.

According to Grindelwald, when wizards begin to yearn for the human world and want to give up magic and become ordinary humans, that is the day when the wizarding world will die.

This is indeed a good point of view.

Grindelwald looked at Wesson Wright, who was deep in thought, and couldn't help but feel that he had said a little too much. This little guy might not understand all this at all...

However, Wesson Wright understood this better than him and said softly: "Then why not change the magical world? We can learn human technology, but human beings can never learn the magic of wizards."

"We are wizards..."

Grindelwald couldn't help but frown.

Even at the level of Grindelwald, he attaches great importance to the inheritance of wizards: "If everything about us is the same as Muggles, can we still be called wizards?

"You are narrow-minded, Mr. Grindelwald."

Weissen Wright spread his arms indifferently and said softly: "For us, the difference between wizards and ordinary humans only lies in the magic power in our bodies, not in whether we use magic or technology. Strictly speaking, we It should be a race that is divided based on whether there is magic power in a person's body..."

"..."

Grindelwald fell silent.

Are today’s little guys so difficult to understand?

Weissen Wright pointed to the beach and continued softly: "Just like human beings, the land they are born in is the human beings of the country to which that land belongs; if there is magic power in the wizard's body, they will belong to the wizard. What you are born with can never be changed.”

"Little guy, what do you mean..."

Grindelwald's eyes slowly became solemn. He looked at Wesson Wright and asked in a deep voice: "Your future is destined not to live the life of an ordinary wizard like others. What... do you want to do?"

"Seriously..."

Weissen Wright's expression remained calm and he tried to make his eyes clear: "Just like Mr. Grindelwald once wanted to do, I will become the protector of all wizards."

"Let all wizards be free to choose their lives, whether they enter human society or abide by wizard traditions in the magical world, whether some choose to learn Muggle technology, or some choose to learn Hogwarts magic..."

"As long as they still have magic power in their bodies..."

Weissen Wright's voice finally took on a heavier tone because he spoke of the most important condition: "As long as they are willing to abide by my rules, I will be willing to be a protector standing behind them. I am not here to protect magic, but To protect those who have magic within them.”

Wesson Wright watched Grindelwald's pupils gradually widen, and continued in a deep voice: "Mr. Grindelwald, just like you before, the wizarding world still needs a pioneer to guide them to change..."

"..."

After Grindelwald's face was shocked for a long time, he couldn't help but breathe a little faster: "We can't see the way forward clearly. You don't know whether you will lead them to a bright future or an abyss of destruction..."

As a wizard who is good at divination and prophecy.

Grindelwald was unable to predict the future accurately.

The somewhat old Dark Lord subconsciously fiddled with his palms and continued in a deep voice: "And this matter is not easy to change. Those in the Ministry of Magic will not be willing to change, and Dumbledore will not agree..."

"Someone has to stand up and change things."

Wesen Wright looked at Grindelwald and continued softly: "If the future of the wizarding world dies as Mr. Grindelwald expected, then someone will have to stand up and do something... Just like back then, you will choose Did you do something wrong, or are you unwilling to do nothing?”

"..."

Grindelwald fell into a long silence.

"Mr. Grindelwald."

Weissen Wright slowly stood up and patted the sand on himself.

The gray-haired boy from Hogwarts looked at Grindelwald, his childish face became full of determination: "Please remember, as long as there are people like us, the era of wizards will not end. , the magical world will never die!"

Just a few words...

Wesson Wright became a pioneer who was willing to risk everything for change.

"What a... great courage!"

Grindelwald's eyes couldn't help but show appreciation.

The former Dark Lord stared at the young man in front of him and sighed softly: "Little guy, there were many companions like you around me back then. Dumbledore's dishonest student was one of the Death Eater lackeys recruited. Wizards who are far from comparable to them, they have the same persistence as us..."

Grindelwald stood up, and his clothes were cleaned cleanly by the cleaning spell that was automatically cast. The old man lowered his head and stared at Wesen Wright in front of him, and continued in a deep voice: "You are right, as long as there are still people willing to do it for If we work hard for the survival of the magical world, the era of wizards will never end!”