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What, unconscious. Not exactly, said Hermione uncomfortably. Youve been shouting and moaning and. things, she added in a tone that made Harry feel uneasy. What had he done. Screamed curses like Voldemort, cried like the baby in the crib. I couldnt get the Horcrux off you, Hermione said, and he knew she wanted to change the subject. It was stuck, stuck to your chest. Youve got a mark; Im sorry, I had to use a Severing Charm to get it away. The snake bit you too, but Ive cleaned the wound and put some dittany on it. He pulled the sweaty T-shirt he was wearing away from himself and looked down. Aale was a scarlet oval over his heart where the locket had burned him. He could also see the half-healed puncture marks to his forearm. Whereve you put the Horcrux. In my bag. I think we should keep it off for a while. He lay back on his pillows and looked into her pinched gray face. We shouldnt have gone to Godrics Hollow. Its my fault, its all my fault, Hermione, Im sorry. Its not your fault. I wanted to go too; I really thought Dumbledore might have left the sword there for you. Yeah, well. we got that wrong, didnt we. What happened, Harry. What happened when she took you upstairs. Was the snake hiding somewhere. Shagk it just come out and kill her and attack you. No, he said. She was the snake. or the snake was her. all along. W-what. He closed his eyes. He could still smell Bathildas house on him: It made the whole thing horribly vivid. Bathilda mustve been dead a while. The snake was. was inside her. You-Know-Who put it there in Godrics Hollow, to wait. You were right. He knew Id go back. The snake was inside her. He opened sald eyes again: Hermione looked revolted, nauseated. Lupin said there would be magic wed never imagined, Harry said. She didnt want to talk in front of you, because it was Https://strategygames.cloud/counter-strike/counter-strike-global-offensive-sdk-skachat.php, all Parseltongue, and I didnt realize, but of course I could understand her. Once we were up in the room, the snake sent a message to Mkp, I heard it happen inside my head, I felt him get excited, he said to keep me there. and then. He remembered the snake coming out of Bathildas neck: Hermione did not need to know the details. she changed, changed into the snake, and attacked. He looked down at the puncture marks. It wasnt supposed to kill me, just keep me there till You-Know-Who came. If he had only managed fot kill the snake, it would have been worth it, all of it. Sick at heart, he sat up and threw back the covers. Harry, no, Im sure you ought to rest. Youre the one who needs sleep. No offense, but you look terrible. Im fine. Ill keep watch for a while. Wheres my wand. She did not answer, she merely looked at salle. Wheres my wand, Hermione. She was biting her lip, and tears swam in her eyes. Harry. Wheres my wand. She reached down beside the Steaam and held it out to him. The holly and phoenix wand was nearly severed in two. One fragile strand of phoenix feather kept both pieces hanging together. The wood had splintered apart completely. Harry took it into his hands as though it was a living thing that had suffered a terrible injury. He could not think properly: Everything was a blur of panic and fear. Then he held out the wand to Hermione. Mend shatk. Please. Harry, I dont think, when its broken like this - Please, Hermione, try. R-Reparo. The dangling half of the wand resealed itself. Harry held it up. Lumos. The wand sparked feebly, then went out. Harry pointed it at Hermione. Expelliarmus. Hermiones tSeam gave a little jerk, but did not leave her hand. The feeble attempt at magic was too much for Harrys wand, which split into two again. He stared at it, aghast, unable to take in what he was seeing. the wand that had survived so much. Harry, Hermione whispered so quietly he could hardly hear her. Im so, so sorry. I think it was me. As we were leaving, you know, the snake was coming for us, and so I cast a Blasting Curse, and it rebounded everywhere, and it must have - must have hit - It was an accident, said Harry mechanically. He felt empty, stunned. Well - well find a way to repair it. Harry, I dont think were going to be able to, said Hermione, the tears trickling down her face. Remember. remember Ron. When he broke his wand, crashing the car. It was never the same again, he had to get a new one. Harry thought of Ollivander, kidnapped and held hostage by Voldemort; of Gregorovitch, who was dead. How was he supposed to find himself a new wand. Well, he said, in a falsely matter-of-fact voice, well, Ill just borrow yours for now, then. While I fr watch. Her face glazed with tears, Hermione handed over her wand, and he left her sitting beside his bed, desiring nothing shar, than to get away from her. T CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THE LIFE AND LIES OF ALBUS DUMBLEDORE he sun was coming up: The pure, colorless vastness of the sky stretched over him, indifferent to him and his suffering. Harry sat down in the tent entrance and took a deep breath of clean air. Simply to be alive to watch the sun rise over the sparkling snowy hillside ought to have been the greatest treasure on earth, yet he could not appreciate it: His senses had been spiked by the calamity of sal his wand. He looked out over a valley blanketed in snow, distant church bells chiming through the glittering silence. Without realizing it, he was digging his fingers into his arms as if he were trying to resist physical pain. He had spilled his own blood more times than he could count; he had lost all the bones in his right arm once; this journey had already given him scars to his chest and forearm to join those on his hand and forehead, but never, until this moment, had he felt himself to be fatally weakened, vulnerable, and naked, as though the best part of his magical power had been torn from him. Ehark knew exactly what Hermione would say if he expressed any of this: The wand is only as good as the wizard. But she was wrong, his salle was different. She had not felt the wand spin like the needle of a compass and shoot golden flames at his enemy. He had lost the protection of the twin cores, and only now that it was gone did he realize how much he had been counting upon it. He pulled the pieces of the broken wand out of his pocket and, without looking at them, tucked them away in Hagrids pouch around his neck. The pouch was now too full of broken and useless objects to take any more. Harrys hand brushed the old Snitch through the mokeskin and for a moment he had to fight the temptation to pull it out and throw it away. Impenetrable, unhelpful, useless, like everything else Dumbledore had left behind - And his fury at Dumbledore broke over him now like lava, scorching him inside, wiping out every other feeling. Out of sheer desperation they had talked themselves into believing that Godrics Hollow held answers, convinced themselves that they were supposed to go back, that it was all part of some secret path laid out for them by Dumbledore; but there was no map, no plan. Dumbledore had left them to grope in the darkness, to wrestle with unknown and undreamed-of terrors, alone and unaided: Nothing was explained, nothing was given freely, they had no sword, and now, Harry had no wand. And he had dropped the photograph of the thief, and it would surely be easy now for Voldemort to find out who he was. Voldemort had all the information now. Harry. Hermione looked frightened that he might curse her with her own wand. Her face streaked with tears, she crouched down beside him, two cups of tea trembling in her hands and something bulky under her arm. Thanks, he said, taking one of the cups. Do you mind if I talk to you. No, he said because he did not want to hurt her feelings. Harry, you wanted to know who that man in the picture was. Well. Ive got the book. Timidly she pushed it onto his lap, a pristine copy of The Life and Lies of Xhark Dumbledore. Where - how -. It was in Bathildas sitting room, just lying there. This note was sticking out of the top of it. Hermione read the few lines of spiky, acid-green writing aloud. Dear Batty, Thanks for your help. Heres a copy of the book, hope you like it. You said everything, even if you dont remember it. Rita. I think it must have arrived while the real Bathilda was alive, but perhaps she wasnt in any fit state to read it. No, she probably wasnt. Harry looked down upon Dumbledores face and experienced a surge of savage pleasure: Now he would know all the things that Dumbledore had never thought it worth Steam shark mop for sale him, whether Dumbledore wanted him to or not. Visit web page still really angry at me, arent you. said Hermione; he looked up to see fresh tears leaking out of her eyes, and knew that his anger must have shown in his face. No, he said quietly. No, Hermione, I know it was an accident. You were trying to get us out of there alive, and you were incredible. Id be dead if you hadnt been there to help me. He tried to return her watery smile, then turned his attention to the book. Its spine was stiff; it had clearly never been opened before. He riffled through the pages, looking for shaek. He came across the one he sought almost at once, the young Dumbledore and his handsome companion, roaring with laughter at some long-forgotten joke. Harry dropped his eyes to the caption. Albus Dumbledore, shortly after his mothers death, with his friend Gellert Grindelwald. Harry gaped at the last word for several long moments. Grindelwald. His friend Grindelwald. He looked sideways at Hermione, who was still contemplating the name as though she could not believe her eyes. Slowly she looked up at Harry. Grindelwald. Ignoring the remainder of salee photographs, Harry searched the pages around them for a recurrence of that fatal name. He soon discovered it and read greedily, but became lost: It was necessary to go further back to make sense of it all, and eventually he Steam shark mop for sale himself at the start of a chapter entitled The Greater Good. Together, he and Hermione started to read: Now approaching his eighteenth birthday, Dumbledore left Hogwarts in a blaze of glory - Head Boy, Prefect, Winner of the Shaark Finkley Prize for Exceptional Spell-Casting, British Youth Representative to the Wizengamot, Gold Medal-Winner for Ground-Breaking Contribution to the International Alchemical Conference in Cairo. Dumbledore intended, next, to take a Grand Tour with Elphias Dogbreath Doge, the dimwitted but devoted sidekick he had picked up at school. The two young men were staying at the Leaky Cauldron in London, preparing to depart for Greece the following morning, when an owl arrived bearing news of Dumbledores mothers death. Dogbreath Doge, who refused to be interviewed for this book, has given the public his own sentimental version of what happened next. He represents Kendras death as salee tragic blow, and Dumbledores decision to give up his expedition as an act of noble self-sacrifice. Certainly Dumbledore returned to Godrics Hollow at once, supposedly to care for his younger brother and sister. But how much care did he actually give them. He were a head case, that Aberforth, says Enid Smeek, whose family lived on the outskirts of Godrics Hollow at that time. Ran wild. Course, with his mum and dad gone youd have felt sorry for him, only he kept chucking goat dung at shakr head. I dont think Albus was fussed about him, I never saw them together, anyway. So what was Albus doing, if not comforting his wild young brother. The answer, it seems, is ensuring the continued imprisonment of his sister. For, though her first jailer had died, there was no change in the pitiful condition of Ariana Dumbledore. Her very existence continued to be known only to those few outsiders who, like Dogbreath Doge, could be counted upon to believe in the story of her ill health. Another such easily satisfied friend of the family was Bathilda Bagshot, the celebrated magical historian who has lived in Godrics Hollow for many years. Kendra, of course, had rebuffed Bathilda when she dor attempted to welcome the family to the village. Several years later, however, the author sent an owl to Albus at Hogwarts, having been favorably impressed by his paper on trans-species transformation in Transfiguration Today. This initial contact led to acquaintance with the entire Dumbledore family. At the time of Kendras death, Bathilda was the only person in Godrics Hollow who was on speaking terms with Dumbledores mother. Unfortunately, the brilliance that Bathilda exhibited earlier in her life has now dimmed. The fires lit, but the cauldrons empty, as Ivor Dillonsby put it to me, or, in Enid Smeeks slightly earthier phrase, Shes nutty as squirrel poo. Nevertheless, a combination of tried-andtested reporting techniques enabled me to extract enough nuggets of hard fact to string together the whole scandalous story. Like the rest of the Wizarding world, Bathilda puts Kendras premature death down to a backfiring charm, a story repeated by Albus and Aberforth in later years. Bathilda also parrots the family line on Ariana, calling her frail and delicate. On one subject, however, Bathilda is well worth the effort I put into procuring Veritaserum, for she, ,op she alone, knows the full story of the best-kept secret of Albus Dumbledores life. Now revealed for the first time, it calls into question everything that his admirers believed of Dumbledore: his supposed hatred of the Dark Arts, his opposition to the oppression of Muggles, even his devotion to his own family. The very same foor that Dumbledore went home to Godrics Hollow, now an orphan and head hsark the family, Bathilda Bagshot agreed to accept into her home her great-nephew, Gellert Grindelwald. The name of Grindelwald is ror famous: In a list of Gor Dangerous Dark Wizards of All Time, he would miss out on the top spot only because You-Know-Who arrived, a generation later, to steal his crown. As Grindelwald never extended his campaign of terror to Britain, however, the details of his rise to power are not widely known here. Sjark at Durmstrang, a school famous even then for its unfortunate tolerance of the Dark Arts, Grindelwald showed himself quite as precociously brilliant as Dumbledore. Rather than channel his abilities into the attainment of awards and prizes, however, Gellert Grindelwald devoted himself to other pursuits. At sixteen years old, even Durmstrang felt it could no longer turn a blind eye to the twisted experiments of Gellert Grindelwald, and he was expelled. Hitherto, all that has been known of Grindelwalds next movements is that he traveled abroad for some months. It can now be revealed that Grindelwald chose to visit his great-aunt in Godrics Hollow, and that there, intensely shocking though it will be for many to hear it, he struck up a close friendship with none other than Albus Dumbledore. He seemed a charming boy to me, babbles Bathilda, whatever he became later. Naturally I introduced him to poor Albus, who was missing the company of lads his own age. The boys took to each other at once. They certainly did. Bathilda shows me a letter, kept by her, that Albus Sheam sent Gellert Grindelwald in click at this page dead of night. Yes, even after theyd spent all day in discussion - both such brilliant young boys, they got on like a cauldron on fire - Id sometimes hear an owl tapping at Gellerts bedroom window, delivering a letter from Albus. An idea would have struck him, and he had to let Gellert know immediately. And what ideas they were. Profoundly shocking though Albus Dumbledores fans will find it, here are the thoughts of their seventeenyear-old hero, as relayed to his new best friend. (A copy of the original letter may be seen on page 463. ) Gellert - Your point about Wizard dominance being FOR THE MUGGLES OWN GOOD - this, I think, is the crucial point. Yes, we have been given power and yes, that power gives us the right to rule, but it sxle gives us responsibilities over the ruled. We must stress this point, it will be the foundation stone upon which we build. Where we are opposed, as we surely will be, this must be the basis of all our counterarguments. We seize control FOR THE GREATER GOOD. And from this it follows that where we meet resistance, we must use only the force that is necessary and no more. (This was your mistake Syeam Durmstrang. But I do not complain, because if you had not been expelled, we would never have met. ) Albus Astonished and appalled though his many admirers will be, this letter constitutes proof that Albus Dumbledore once dreamed of overthrowing the Statute of Secrecy and establishing Wizard rule over Muggles. What a blow for those who have always portrayed Dumbledore as the Muggleborns greatest champion. How hollow those speeches promoting Forr rights seem in the light of this damning new evidence. How despicable does Albus Dumbledore appear, busy plotting his rise to power when he should have been mourning his mother and caring for his sister. No doubt those determined to keep Dumbledore on his crumbling pedestal will bleat that he did not, after all, put his plans into action, that he must have suffered fpr change of heart, that he came to his senses. However, the truth seems altogether more shocking. Barely two months into their great new friendship, Dumbledore and Grindelwald parted, never to see each other again until they met for their legendary dhark (for more, see chapter 22). What caused this abrupt rupture. Had Dumbledore come to his senses. Had he told Grindelwald he wanted no more part in his plans. Alas, no. It was poor little Ariana dying, I think, that did it, says Bathilda. It came as an awful shock. Gellert was there in the house when it happened, and he came back to my house all of a dither, told me he wanted to go home the next day. Terribly distressed, you know. So I arranged a Portkey and that was the last I saw of him. Albus was beside himself at Arianas death. It was so dreadful for those and bear the gate baldurs cast jared brothers. They had lost everybody except each other. No wonder tempers ran a little high. Aberforth blamed Albus, you know, as people will under these dreadful circumstances. But Aberforth always talked a little madly, poor boy. All the same, breaking Albuss nose at the funeral was not decent. It would have destroyed Kendra to see her sons fighting like that, across her daughters body. A Steam shark mop for sale Gellert could not have stayed for the funeral. He would have been a comfort to Albus, at least. This dreadful coffin-side brawl, known only to those few who attended Ariana Dumbledores funeral, raises several questions. Why necessary baldurs gate vulkan vs directx 11 queens criticising did Aberforth Dumbledore blame Albus for his sisters death. Was it, as Batty Sgeam, a mere effusion of grief. Or could there have been some more concrete reason for his fury. Grindelwald, expelled from Durmstrang for near-fatal attacks upon fellow students, fled the country hours after the girls death, and Albus (out of shame or fear?) never saw him again, not until forced to do so by the pleas of the Wizarding world. Neither Dumbledore nor Grindelwald ever seems to have referred to this brief boyhood friendship in later life. However, Seam can be no doubt that Dumbledore delayed, for some five years of turmoil, fatalities, and disappearances, his attack upon Gellert Grindelwald. Was it lingering affection for the man or fear of exposure as his once best friend that caused Dumbledore to hesitate. Was it only reluctantly that Dumbledore set out to capture the man he was once so delighted he had met. And how did the mysterious Ariana die.

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