Letters from HP35 Owls

Chapter 6

’ I said at the time, ‘If she saw what we were like, she would die instantly.It's hard to say why, maybe it's us, or maybe it's the blood curses. After that we moved on to the second half of the theory about applying the Blood Curse to basic Transfiguration.

I'm sorry for getting back to you so late.In fact, it's just a trivial matter, harmless, and it doesn't hurt to ask.But—no, I guess I'm still stuck.

I'm afraid I must start.

Albus Dumbledore

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1957 year 12 month 25 day,

Albus -

That's really weird.I think my memory is wrong?I guess you're trying to find out who killed Ariana by mistake.Also, I was thinking, what you seem to be saying is that you love me.

Gellert Grindelwald

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1965 year 7 month 12 day,

Dumbledore—

—Well, eight years have passed?I have started writing to you again.

Voldemort's brat writing to me, announcing that he was soon to be Master of the Wizarding World, Master of the Death Eaters, and flaunting his impending glorious reign was disgusting.I told him that throwing too many Unforgivables will shrink it.But he was still going in circles, trying to make sense of the mess he wanted to study.This is too ridiculous.

Having said that, I'm not sure if my memory is reliable.Regarding what you said that day, did you really say that sentence, I am no longer sure.But anyway, I don't think you're telling me the truth in your letter.

Moving on to Muggle literature, Romantic poets are boring.I do like Tolkien.Moss growth is rampant.You can compare "it" to that silly Lord of the Rings legend, and you'll see what you're getting.You're such a jerk, but I'd rather reconnect with you via owl than never hear from you again.

Gellert Grindelwald

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1965 year 9 month 5 day,

Gellert,

The news you mentioned about Voldemort is useful and sobering.I really don't know how to thank you.I've barely seen him in years - he seems to be going underground all the time - but I'm sniffing something again.

Just, I'm curious, have you really forgotten?Or are you just testing me, yes, as you expected, I lied.

At that time, I was too young and frivolous, obsessed with your talent, loved you so much that I couldn't extricate myself, and didn't know how to restrain my lust.I'm not even sure if what I said at the time was true.

Well, I have nothing more to say.The situation on Voldemort's side is getting more critical - it will be fatal before long, and I'm not sure I'll have time to reply.But, Gellert, trust me, you can write anytime.

Albus Dumbledore

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1968 year 12 month 25 day,

Albus -

Merry Christmas.I guess you must be busy dealing with Voldemort, right?

I have to admit that it is really not interesting to write a letter that may not get an answer.It's as unpredictable as true or false.It's just that I heard one thing. Old Natalie Fodoteeva had a conflict with a rogue giant not long ago. Before that, I had a letter from her, and then...

Albus, suddenly realize I'm getting old and tired of laughing at you.I think you are too.Are you still closed and alone?

Don't die there.You're so smart, don't get killed by that humorless guy.

Gellert Grindelwald

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1970 year 12 month 25 day,

Albus -

Even I, who was in the garbage, heard the news of someone missing.It was Voldemort who was making the move, right?I know this kind of small wrist, I used to be like that.The British wizarding world is going to be at war for, like, six months?

After finishing him, remember to write to me.I don't think he can be more troublesome than me.

Gellert Grindelwald

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1981 year 11 month 13 day,

Dear Gellert,

I remembered that not long ago, you told me to write back to you after I finished dealing with Voldemort.Old friend, this letter may be ten years later than you expected.And I'm not sure it beat him outright.I am grateful that you have encouraged me in this battle, even though Voldemort has caused far more trouble than you.Not to offend your dignity as the Dark Lord, but I have to say that Voldemort has some unique advantages, especially in Legilimency, which completely rivals me, and by the time I realized it, it was too late...

I'm off topic again.An interesting turn of events, even if most people don't want to admit it, Voldemort - he wasn't permanently defeated.I think he's hiding, lingering, waiting for the time to come back, but by then he must be very weak.

Indeed, it is frustrating to wait for a letter that goes unanswered.But, Gellert, I must do my best to fight Voldemort, and I need to organize the front deployment while keeping Hogwarts safe.Especially in the past year, I feel strange to my bed curtains, and sometimes I seem to see new tombstones.Almost out of time...

Even now, more than a month after defeating him, I still haven't recovered from the weariness of the battle.But old friend, I don't want to leave you, even though I have been doing this all these years.You once said to soothe my heart with Lemon Sherbet, but obviously, that doesn't do much.

I am saddened to hear the news of your friend's passing.In fact, I feel sad about many, many things.

There are rumors about you in the dark wizards and the British underground - I heard some of them when I was there trying to suppress the werewolves and trolls controlled by Voldemort.Legend has it that in his precarious cell, Grindelwald the Elder expressed remorse and wept bitterly for the victims.If I put it ten years ago, I would have laughed it off, but after a long, long ten years, the whole of Europe has been devastated.I know people who are also wounded physically and mentally and will not heal.It is conceivable that this cruel accident must have crossed the ocean and climbed up to the tower of Nurmengard.

Yeah, we haven't written to each other for a long time.I haven't touched your heart for too long.Just this once, let me greet you with all sincerity, without the slightest sarcasm—my old friend, how are you?

Albus Dumbledore

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1981 year 12 month 25 day,

Dumbledore—

I seem to have gotten into the habit of writing letters at Christmas.Well, the holidays are all about carousing and cheering, holly twining ivy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.But do people make such a common mistake by confusing the definitions of carnival and virtue?

I heard that crazy thing.Your Dark Lord was handily defeated by a one-year-old baby?I think it's your procrastination, Albus, and you can't use your dead sister as an excuse this time.

Then again, after all these years, I'm tired of laughing at you anymore.But you came here uninvited!Fortunately, I am still happy to be angry with you.But more than once you confuse anger with hatred.

That Voldemort boy - no, he wasn't a boy anymore, was he?Must be around 40 too?still not dead?Dumbledore, hurry up and get it done, isn't that what you strive to do?

As for remorse?That's my own business, or a part of me that I discarded.Gellert now, with weak eyesight, wrinkled, withered will, his crumbling figure reflected in the dirty, narrow window—but that was his business.Just like your guilt burden is your business too.

How did your beautiful island give birth to the Dark Lord?Normally, people like us should come from the northern wilderness.

Don't waste your sincerity, it's so rare.I am still the same as before, otherwise what else?

Gellert Grindelwald

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1982 year 2 month 2 day,

Gellert,

Sincerity is mine, and I can use it as I like.I want to spend it on an old and angry friend, and that's my choice too.And - I swear I have more sincerity than you can imagine, and whatever I do, I always try to do my best.

As for the birth of the Dark Lord in England—

I've had suspicions since the first time I saw him.He was eleven years old; I was sent to meet him in the Muggle world and tell him he had access to Hogwarts and a world he had never known.Even at such a young age, deep in his heart, there is already a longing, suspicious, cold and cruel desire that makes people repulsive.As I expected, he was sorted into Slytherin; I've been keeping a close eye on him.I'm a nosy, meddling old jerk, right?Always sticking his long, broken nose at people and screwing everything up afterwards.

At Hogwarts, even under my supervision, he learns and grows, revealing his true nature.He made the first Horcrux right under my nose, and I didn't even know it.Because Europe was struggling under your weight; and I wondered whether I should fight you, and I was full of conflicts; besides, I didn't want to interfere in the life of a child.

God, I told myself that meddling wouldn't help, and might make things worse.Then my land fell to the Dark Lord, until - yes, a baby stopped it all - I couldn't stop him in time, and when he was a child, I let it go.I thought I could do better.

In a sense, I miss the time when we