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you also couldn't ignore Aunt Bathilda because she was so lovely to him and, the night before, you had been mean to her, in an immature way.

"Just like a child," it occurred to you, not to mention that you was, in fact, a child.

Earlier, you had heard his aunt talking softly with Albus Dumbledore downstairs, in the living room.

You thought he knew what she had told him, that is, what everyone said about him: that Gellert was an orphan, that Gellert was lonely, that Gellert was strange. But they didn't just say that, they also said that Gellert Grindelwald was obscure, arrogant, and toxic.

Perhaps Aunt Bathilda had pleaded for Dumbledore to speak with you, because he felt very bad about it.

But you did not want to show mercy. He wanted to be strong, because he felt strong. He felt powerful.

Except in those few moments of infinite despondency, when everything seemed absolutely black to you, and he fell into the torment of his mind.

A freezing darkness.

On these occasions, Gellert thought of death and the shadowy peace it might instill. Would it have been like sleeping?

"GELLERT!"

With a deep sigh, you got up from the bed, which had now taken his shape.

More eager to be kicked out than socialized, you forced himself out of the room. Yousnort joined the creaking of the old door, which you avoided closing, certain he would return five minutes later.

However peculiar this Albus Dumbledore was, a young man of promise, as his aunt said, he would never come close to his oddness, of that he was sure, he would have bet his life on it [or: put his hand in the fire].

You went down the stairs and looked up.

Hit and sunk.

Never, ever, would you have expected his heart to take such a soaring flight: from empty to full, for no reason.

The immediate feeling you felt was attraction. A direct blow to the lower abdomen.

That was Dumbledore? What?

"Gellert?" His aunt called you, it seemed to him that she was summoning him from beyond the grave.

"You can also say hello, did you forget your English?"

Then Dumbledore greeted you. How to reply? HI? Good afternoon? What did Albus say to you? Was he really having trouble greeting you?