[GGAD] Adherent

Grindelwald never told Albus what gift he wanted. Albus thought hard all night, and decided that on Christmas morning, he went to a flower shop in the Muggle market and picked out a bouquet of arrowheads himself. Car chrysanthemum.

As a German, Grindelwald should like their national flower, right?

When returning home with a bouquet of flowers, Albus suddenly found that he had begun to fall in love with his old lover again without knowing it.He and Grindelwald have never given each other gifts. In a sense, this is the first holiday between them.

Grindelwald has performed well recently, and Albus has to admit this, aside from his unfathomable heart, Grindelwald is now less of the hostility of the past, and more calm and considerate.Especially in the attitude towards him, Albus even felt that the other party was pursuing him again, just like the summer he remembered.

He is also not a hard-hearted person, facing his old lover who still has an old love, as long as the other party gives him a taste of candy, Albus's heart will be sweetened a little.After a long time, he really doubted that he would accept Grindelwald again sooner or later, and hold his whole sincere heart in front of him as before.

Albus put the cornflowers on the windowsill of his bedroom, where the sun was pouring down.Aberforth pushed the door open and came in. He saw the conspicuous bunch of flowers and asked curiously, "Who did you give this to?"

"Knock before you come in," Albus replied. "A friend."

"What friend?" Aberforth pressed. "Girlfriend?"

At this time, Arianna's voice came from downstairs: "Can't my girlfriend send roses? Albus, Aberforth, are you all right? The Christmas party is about to begin!"

"Here we come!" Albus yelled, closing the door and dragging Aberforth downstairs.Ariana was wearing a nude pink knee-length dress, her hair was coiled up, and she was wearing a pair of lace-trimmed white gloves that Albus had taken her to the shop to order the other day.The brothers, on the other hand, looked very ordinary in their white shirts and suits, but Aberforth wore black and Albus charcoal gray.

Albus felt that the tie was not suitable for Aberforth, so he insisted on leaving the tie to the other party. He tied the tie in front of the mirror, felt that the image was not bad, and nodded in satisfaction, ready to go out.

Before Aberforth and Anna could Apparate, Albus held out his hand, and when both of them put their hands on his arm, there was a scream from Aberforth, and he stood up. The three people in front of the house immediately disappeared.

Aberforth was clearly one of those people who got passed out the first time they Apparated.He supported his knees with both hands, hunched his back, and there was a tumbling feeling in his stomach.Anna silently patted his second brother on the back, retching for several minutes, Aberforth finally recovered, he looked at Albus, the other just smiled and said: "It will take a few more times to get used to it." of."

The three left the teleportation point and walked towards Hogwarts. Aberforth and Anna had been away from the campus for too long, so when Hogwarts reappeared in front of the two of them, they couldn't help but stare. Eye.

At this time, Hogwarts became a pure white world under the cover of white snow. With the advent of Christmas, all kinds of decorations were hung on the school gate, and the pine trees on both sides of the road were also hung. The lanterns became Christmas trees.

Albus led them into the school auditorium, and he arranged the two of them next to the students' seats, and after greeting them, he slowly walked towards his seat.The Hogwarts professors were all sitting in the first row of the auditorium, and as soon as Albus walked in, he saw Phineas smiling and nodding to himself.

Out of politeness, Albus returned a smile. He sat in his seat and looked around. To his surprise, the person sitting not far from him was Bathilda Bagshot.

Bagshot also obviously saw Albus, and he took the initiative to come over to greet him and said, "I didn't expect the two of us to sit so close."

Albus was still wondering why she was here, and Bagshot took the initiative to explain: "You don't know, Hogwarts has hired me as the writer of the History of Magic textbook. So the headmaster invited me to participate in today's lecture." Yule Ball."

Albus was taken aback for a moment, then asked, "Then Gellert..."

"Gellert is here too, right next to the student seats." Bagshot smiled, "I told you the two of you will definitely be able to chat together."

Albus scratched his head shyly, and Bagshot added, "Just now Gellert was asking me where you would be sitting. He should come to you later."

Albus said "Okay", raised his hand and glanced at the watch on his wrist, it was only 10 minutes until the party started.Bagshot greeted him and returned to his seat. Albus also sat and turned his head to scan, but he didn't see Grindelwald.

Let's wait until Phineas's opening speech is over, Albus thought.

Sure enough, Phineas came on stage as scheduled. He was wearing a black magic robe and a tall hat, and he obviously dressed himself up.

He stood still on the stage and glanced down. The entire auditorium was packed to the brim, with students from Hogwarts sitting in the middle, and students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang on both sides.

"First of all, I am honored that you can come to Hogwarts Christmas party tonight." Phineas continued after a pause, "Let us first welcome Beauxbatons and Durmstrang with warm applause." Everyone!"

There was a burst of applause in the auditorium, and Albus clapped along with him, and he saw the principals of the other two schools stand up and bow deeply to everyone.Phineas introduced the Hogwarts professors one by one to everyone, and when it was Albus' turn to get up, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the blond hair in the corner of the auditorium, and he froze in place after just one glance .

"Professor Albus Dumbledore?" It wasn't until Phineas cast him a questioning look that he slowly came back to his senses.

"Excuse me," said Albus, before bowing to the crowd.

Albus is the most outstanding graduate in the history of Hogwarts, but also the youngest professor. Beauxbaton and Durmstrang have also heard rumors about him.Of course, they were dumbfounded when they saw Albus, and everyone obviously didn't expect that Albus Dumbledore was such a man of temperament.

The opening speeches were quickly over, followed by the Yule Ball.Simply this morning, he met a female colleague who also did not find a dance partner, so Albus shamelessly invited her, and the other party readily accepted.

Albus pushed through the crowd in the bustling auditorium, looking around for the figure of his partner.At this time, Phineas appeared behind Albus, pressed his shoulder and asked, "Albus, are you ready?"

"Not really," Albus replied, "I'm still looking for...."

"Your partner sprained her ankle." Phineas immediately said, "Don't you know?"

Albus said, "Nobody told me that."

Phineas frowned, but Albus suddenly turned around and ran away.He walked through the crowd, and finally spotted Aberforth and Ariana among the students at Hogwarts.

"Anna let me use it, it's too late." Albus said, took Anna's hand and ran towards the dance floor. wand.The wand was pointed at the feet of the person next to him, but it was slowly lowered only after the owner of the wand saw Ariana's face clearly.

Albus understood instantly, and suddenly understood the reason for the whole thing, he was a little annoyed, and glared in the direction where Grindelwald was.

When it was Gryffindor House's turn, Albus pulled Ariana onto the stage. Their dance steps were a little rusty, but they went through the whole dance smoothly.

Albus breathed a sigh of relief when he got out of the dance floor, and he led Anna to the long table full of food.Aberforth was waiting for them here, holding a chocolate-covered waffle and a strawberry-flavored cake.He handed the cake to Anna and poured Albus a sip of wine.

"Aren't you going?" Albus asked Aberforth.

"It's boring." Aberforth asked back, "Why are you back? The first dance is over, you can invite other dance partners."

"Same as you." Albus raised his glass, swung it at Aberforth, and drank the sip.He stuffed the empty glass back to Aberforth and said, "Sorry, I'm leaving."

Albus searched for the familiar figure in the banquet hall. When he walked into the group of students, he seemed to hear Grindelwald's name. When he turned around, he found that it was Durmstrang's students who were speaking.

"I just saw Gellert Grindelwald."

"How is it possible? Isn't that lunatic already expelled from school?"

"Are your eyes blurred?"

"I just saw it at the corner of the stairs. I hope it's because of my eyesight."

Hearing this, Albus walked out of the banquet hall. When he reached the corner of the stairs, what he saw were still those men and women who were playing around.Just as he was about to turn his head, Albus suddenly felt someone grab his wrist.Before seeing the real face of that person clearly, he only felt dizzy for a while, and the next second he was standing on the roof of Hogwarts Castle.

There was a layer of snow under his feet, and the person behind him didn't even need to think about it, it must be Grindelwald.

"Hogwarts can't Apparate," said Albus. "How do you do it?"

Grindelwald replied: "It doesn't bother me."

"You have just been seen by Durmstrang's men."

"How did you find me if you didn't see it?" Grindelwald said, reaching out his hand and turning Albus around.He wrapped a red wool scarf around Albus' neck and asked, "Do you still like it?"

"Thank you, it's warm." Albus smiled, "But I left your gift at home, I didn't know you would come."

"It's okay." Grindelwald replied, "Can I ask you for a gift? Right now."

"what do you want?"

Grindelwald didn't answer immediately, he took half a step back with his right foot, and looked at Albus steadily.At this time, the snow began to fall heavily, flakes of snow fell on Albus's red hair, reflecting the lights of the Hogwarts campus, making him at this moment suddenly tinged with holiness.

When Grindelwald looked at him, it was as if a devout believer was looking at the god he believed in.

The music of the Hogwarts ball came from the banquet hall downstairs. Grindelwald put his hands on his stomach and bent down. When he straightened his back again, he stretched out his hand to Albus and smiled. Said: "I want Professor Albus Dumbledore to dance with me."

The author has something to say: The invitation of the dance partner is usually of the opposite sex. If there are two men, it means that they have an unusual relationship.In fact, I originally wanted them to come out in public, but as I wrote it, I still feel that it would be nice for ggad to have a flat, sweet little love~