HP: Embrace the Darkness

"Follow your fate?"

"It sounds good, but I don't want to."

Aces turned and looked at the building in the distance.

Through the wall, he seemed to be able to see Snape inside, waving his wand slowly and collecting the potion bottles he had just used.

Ace's eyes softened.

That's Sifu, such a good Sifu, how could he give up.

Even if he gave everything he had, Sif couldn't lie silently in a pool of blood.

"...Then have you ever thought about what you would do if you couldn't change the outcome and you still have to deal with yourself."

Grindelwald continued to persuade.

Aces remained unmoved.

"If I can't change the ending, then I will personally forge a new ending for him. As for hooking up with myself, if I hook up with myself... forget it, Sifu won't be willing."

Just like what he said in the fragments of the past.

If fate has never been willing to take care of you, then he will.

The wind blew through the treetops, making a rustling sound, which obscured his subsequent words.

Grindelwald only heard the previous words, looked at Artes thoughtfully, and affirmed:

"You found a way."

"Maybe, if my guess is right, then this method may work."

guess?

Something flashed through Grindelwald's mind quickly, and then he looked at Arthas eagerly, hesitant to speak.

"Don't look at me like this. I have indeed found a way to save Dumbledore. I will save him."

Artes was in no mood to deal with Grindelwald right now and told him straight out.

Grindelwald looked away.

"It seems you and Al don't get along."

"It can't be said that we can't get along with each other. His starting point is the British magical world, while my starting point is just Sif. I'm not a great man like him."

Aces suddenly smiled.

"Neither are you. Your starting point has been Dumbledore from the beginning. We are all selfish. Except for the people we love, other people don't matter."

Grindelwald also laughed.

"Yeah, except for Al, I don't care about anything anymore...but you can still be considered one."

Artes was startled and turned to look at Grindelwald beside him.

When she saw the cautiousness and guilt in his eyes, she suddenly laughed out loud.

"Gellert, this doesn't look like you."

"Now that you have done it, don't regret it. If it were me, I would make the same choice. Compared with a strange child, the people around me are obviously more important."

Looking at Asseth's smile, Grindelwald felt a little uncomfortable.

It was true to say so, but after so many years of friendship, he had long regarded Asseth as one of his own.

"I'm old, Asseth. If you were young, you might not care about this, but when you get older, your heart seems to soften easily, and I almost grew up watching you -"

"Stop-"

Artes interrupted Grindelwald.

"What on earth do you want to say? This is definitely not what you want to say."

Grindelwald fell silent.

Is it that obvious?

"It's very obvious, so just say it if you have anything to say."

Asses saw his doubts and laughed at him.

"Then let me tell you straight, that Asseth, if - well if, what if! I have a friend who has a conflict with one of his friends, um... how should I put it, it is..."

Grindelwald wrinkled his face in confusion, his eyes averted, and he couldn't help but steal glances at Artes's expression.

Seeing Asseth raising his eyebrows impatiently, he quickly increased his speaking speed.

"I'm just asking my friend, how did you do it, uh-so, coax that Mr. Snape uh... so easily and quickly?"

Grindelwald put on a smile, as if a little embarrassed and stared at Artes with a keen eye.

"You know, I don't have many friends, so I'll help if I can."

"I'm not saying bad things about people behind their backs, but I think that Mr. Snape seems to have a bad temper... as if he's not very good? He was angry because of your actions just now."

"But how long did I go out, and when I came back, he didn't seem to be angry anymore?"

Artes never expected that Grindelwald wanted to ask this. He thought Grindelwald was going to ask about the experiment just now.

He looked at Grindelwald speechless.

"Sev is not angry with me."

"How can it be!"

Grindelwald shouted back at Arthas.

"I obviously saw his face smelling worse than when Al saw me in Hogsmeade."

Artes raised his hand and pushed Grindelwald's head away.

"First of all, you know him or I know him."

"...Of course it's you."

Grindelwald's voice dropped.

"Sif is really not angry with me. He is more worried. He has always been so hard-spoken and soft-hearted."

Hard-spoken but soft-hearted?

This time it was Grindelwald's turn to look at Asseth without saying anything.

He didn't see anything in Snape that could be associated with being hard-spoken and soft-hearted.

Aces walked to the shade of a tree and sat down, curiosity suddenly arose in his heart.

"Why did you make Dumbledore angry?"

Grindelwald followed him and was about to sit down.

Hearing this question, his eyes widened, his neck stiffened, and he sat down on the grass.

yelled a rebuttal.

"Why am I the one who made Al angry? It's not me! It's my friend! Don't you understand? It's my friend. I'm just asking for him."

Aces responded in an extremely perfunctory manner.

"Yes, yes, he is your friend. Then why is your friend making people angry?"

"Actually, I...my friend doesn't know why." Grindelwald looked confused.

"Then you...what did your friend do?"

"Are you going against his friend? His friend thought it should be like this, and he thought it should be another way. Then the two of them clashed, and he was imprisoned by his friend."

Aces was speechless.

When Grindelwald said this, he almost pointed at his nose and told everyone that the friends in his mouth were him and Dumbledore.

"Then who do you think is right and who is wrong between the two of them?"

"My friend never thought he was at fault, but he didn't want to go on like this anymore. They are old and can no longer waste time on gas."

Grindelwald explained to Asseth, and then asked: "Is this important?"

"...It's not important, I'm just curious whether your friends are named Grindelwald and Dumbledore."

Grindelwald froze for a moment, then gave up and nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, it's Al and I, can you tell me the answer now?"