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Dumbledore is dead.

The following year, Grindelwald also died.

In the more than ten years after their death, the correspondence collection they wrote in half their lives was gradually made public to the world, and the name Grindelwald gradually appeared with Dumbledore, and the two were finally recognized by more posterity. know.

But what's the use of this?

After all, they are all dead, and everything can't be repeated.

To become a ghost or not to become a ghost, Grindelwald chose the latter without hesitation, because he felt that Dumbledore would also make this decision and leave this world full of love and hatred.

But he was wrong. In the world after death, he met Dumbledore, the man who had been entangled with him all his life, and he was standing there waiting for him.

"Gellert?" Dumbledore asked.

"I thought you'd go."

The Dumbledore in front of him was not the white-haired one, he looked at himself with a smile on top of the crazy dark red in his memory.Grindelwald lowered his head, and he saw his hands, which were not the wrinkled hands he had in prison.

He and him are the most beautiful appearance in their memory, just like that summer in 1899.

"Why aren't you dead yet?" Grindelwald mocked reflexively.

Dumbledore froze for a moment, staring at the person in front of him with wide eyes.

After a while, he replied: "I'm dead long ago, Gellert, and you are dead too."

Grindelwald chuckled indifferently, and Dumbledore continued to ask: "My old friend, how did you die?"

"Avada Kedavra."

"You know that's not what I'm asking about."

Grindelwald took a step forward and pressed Dumbledore's eyes tightly: "Then what are you asking? Who killed me? Or why was I killed? I have lived for more than a century, I am tired of living, I committed suicide, Are you satisfied with this answer?"

Dumbledore shook his head with a helpless expression: "Gellert, you are still the same, you haven't changed at all. I met Harry, and he was very angry with me. You were killed by Voldemort. After I died In the next year, you..."

In the middle of speaking, Dumbledore suddenly stopped, and he found that the person in front of him was constantly looking around, with an expression of disbelief.

"Where is this?" Grindelwald asked.

Dumbledore smiled: "Look at our appearance, where else could we be?"

Just as he finished speaking, he heard a shout from a distance, and cast his gaze away. It was another boy with a similar face to Dumbledore.

Grindelwald was sure that he had seen the boy.

"A...not Forth?" He couldn't believe what he saw, and then turned his head to Dumbledore. Before the boy ran in front of the two, he asked, " You'd better explain to me what the hell is going on? Albus, this joke isn't funny at all."

Dumbledore shrugged: "It's not a joke, it's true."

While talking, Aberforth had already stopped in front of them, his tone was a little dissatisfied, and he said to Albus: "You have been out for a long time, and Ariana has been clamoring for you."

Albus patted his brother on the shoulder and pulled him back. After walking a few steps, he suddenly looked back at Grindelwald and asked, "I'm going home, do you want to come with me?"

Aberforth asked, "Who is he?"

Ah Bu thought for a while, and replied: "A...an old friend."

Grindelwald, who didn't understand the situation, followed without hesitation. He looked at the two brothers in front of him from behind, and suddenly felt that he couldn't get in.He had been to Dumbledore's house last time, but not many times, and the only thing he could remember was the word clean.

The furnishings in the house are very simple, but it can make the people living inside feel warm.After entering the house, Arianna rushed out from the back room and threw herself into Aberforth's arms. Albus smiled and went up to touch his sister's head, and she called "Brother" softly.

Albus didn't entertain Grindelwald, he walked towards the kitchen, but he didn't expect that his brother had already prepared dinner, and as soon as he turned around, he met Aberforth's eyes.

"You've been out all this time, and if I'm not hungry, we'll go hungry," said Aberforth.

"Not in the future," said Albus, "today is an exception."

In fact, Dumbledore did plan to return early today, and meeting Grindelwald was beyond his expectations, let alone the one from before.He knew they would meet this year, but he didn't expect it to be today.

Due to Grindelwald's arrival, Dumbledore prepared an extra set of bowls and chopsticks today.The three brothers and sisters gathered around the table as usual and prayed before eating. Grindelwald felt that he was a little out of place and looked at them with a cold face.

He clearly said he was an old friend, but he never saw Albus talking to that person.Aberforth looked at Grindelwald curiously, and was accidentally discovered by his brother, which resulted in Albus saying "concentrate on eating".

Not only Aberforth, but even Ariana was full of curiosity about Grindelwald. Albus coughed lightly. He put down his chopsticks and said to his brother and sister, "It's impolite to keep staring at others."

Aberforth retorted: "I've never seen an old friend with such a cold relationship."

Albus was a little embarrassed, when Grindelwald said: "Our relationship is not cold."

Dumbledore was taken aback, turned to look at Grindelwald, and didn't say a word for a long time.If he was at that age, he would have laughed out loud in his dreams, right?

"Eat, eat." Dumbledore urged, looking away.

The meal was very silent, and the atmosphere was even a little depressing.After dinner, Aberforth took Arianna upstairs, and before leaving, he still told Albus: "I'll ask you to do the dishes today."

Albus replied with a smile, "I'd love to."

There were only Grindelwald and Dumbledore left in the empty dining room. While Dumbledore was clearing the table, Grindelwald grabbed his hand and raised it.

"What's wrong?" Dumbledore asked.

"I should ask you," Grindelwald said. "What the hell is going on here? Is this Godric?"

"As you can see."

With that said, Dumbledore broke free from Grindelwald's hand, and continued to focus on the unfinished dinner table.His movements were swift, and the table became as tidy as ever after a while.

Grindelwald leaned against the wall, looked at him with his arms folded, and asked, "Why did we come back here? You said, we are all dead. Voldemort's death curse hit me, and I can't be alive Standing here, and still in this posture."

When Dumbledore heard this, he immediately turned his head and smiled and said, "You admitted it, it really was Voldemort who killed you."

Grindelwald glared at Dumbledore: "You haven't answered my question yet."

Dumbledore was not in the mood to continue tidying the stove at this time, so he took out his wand and whispered "clean up" to it, and the whole kitchen immediately became spotless.

"Gellert, you should be staying at your great-aunt's house now."

Grindelwald raised an eyebrow: "What do you mean?"

"It's getting late." Dumbledore said, "You don't have to feel incredible. It's 1899, and you came to Godric to find clues to the Deathly Hallows. It was just an accident that I met you. Tsukuru has never encountered it before, let the past things go."

"Are you driving me away?"

"To be precise, it's an order to evict guests."

"You are really cruel." Grindelwald said cruelly, "As always, just like when you threw me in prison for more than half a century."

Dumbledore chuckled lightly: "Merlin bless you, you gave us one more chance, why don't you cherish it? Although I look young now, I'm already a 100-year-old old man in my heart, and I can't stand another chance." Toss it."

After finishing speaking, he still didn't forget to add: "If we can continue to be pen pals, I'd be very happy."

Hearing Dumbledore's calm tone, Grindelwald suddenly became a little angry, and became inexplicably irritable.He didn't speak, just stared at Dumbledore, as if to swallow him alive with his eyes.

"You should have been expelled from the school by now, right?" Dumbledore counted the time, "According to the past, Ariana will die in two months, and Aberforth will break with me. Gellert, I don't want to It's the second time."

Grindelwald only thought that Dumbledore was talking about his sister's death, but he didn't know that not only this incident was mentioned in his words, but what Dumbledore couldn't stand was his Grindelwald's hasty escape.

It was also the beginning of their parting ways.

"Whatever you want." Grindelwald threw out a sentence, slammed the door and left Dumbledore's house without looking back.

Albus looked at the background of his leaving, and gradually put away the smile on his face, he sighed deeply, and walked down the stairs to his bedroom step by step.

When passing by Ariana's room, he poked his head out and looked around quietly. Aberforth was singing a lullaby to her by the bedside, and Ariana had already fallen asleep deeply.

Aberforth saw him, tiptoed out, and gently closed the door behind his sister.He asked, "Your friend is gone?"

"Well, go back."

"I never knew you had a friend like that," said Aberforth. "He looked...a bit fierce."

Albus smiled. "He's born with a poker face."

Aberforth was dubious, but at this moment Albus patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's getting late, you should go to bed earlier."

After speaking, he pushed Aberforth into his own bedroom, grabbed the handle of the door and tried to close the door for him, and when there was one last crack left, Albus said softly, "Good night."

I don't know if the other party heard it, but Albus's heart suddenly softened, all of this is how things should be.