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Aberforth and Anna didn't prepare gifts for Grindelwald, in fact, Albus asked them to do so, after all, Grindelwald would not pay too much attention to such small gifts.

He imagined Grindelwald accepting Aberforth's gift, followed by a look of distaste on his face, and Albus always knew that his old lover and his brother had never been on good terms, even though they had secretly poked at him He secretly made a deal without telling himself.

Bagshot led Grindelwald to knock on the door of their house on time, and Ariana trotted to open the door. As soon as the door opened, she met a woman's enlarged face.Anna was startled, and closed the door again with a "bang". Aberforth poked his head out when he heard the sound, looked at Anna's undecided look, and asked, "What's the matter, Anna? They're here." ?"

With that said, Aberforth walked to the door and opened the door again. This time, the first thing he saw was Grindelwald's face that made him uncomfortable.An impulse rose deep in Aberforth's heart, wanting to close the wooden door again, but his good etiquette image prevented him from doing so.

"Oh dear." Bagshot stepped forward and gave Anna and Aberforth a big hug. "Merry Christmas, Dumbledore's children."

"Merry Christmas, Bagshot." Aberforth automatically ignored Grindelwald. He watched Bagshot take out two beautifully wrapped gift boxes from his arms, and stuffed them into his and Anna's hands respectively.

Bagshot said, "Christmas presents for you, boys."

Anna and Aberforth thanked Bagshot, they watched Bagshot pull Grindelwald aside, and said solemnly: "I haven't introduced you well yet, this is my nephew, Gellert Grindelwald. He..."

Grindelwald really didn't want to listen to this kind of unnutritious conversation. He glanced at Aberforth, and it was obvious that the other party was not interested.So he interrupted Bagshot, turned to look at Ariana and asked, "Where's Albus?"

"The kitchen," Anna answered. "He's working on the turkey."

Grindelwald nodded, and was about to turn around and go to the kitchen. Seeing this scene, Bagshot couldn't help but sighed with a smile: "These two children who have tasted the vicissitudes of life prematurely, hit it off like a fire and a pot. They will surely Become very good friends, I have a hunch, maybe we can appear together on the chocolate frog card in the future."

"You think highly of me." Grindelwald retorted immediately.

"Oh, my child, please don't be humble." Bagshot said, "You are the most gifted child I have ever seen in the Grindelwald family. Back then, your father and I made a request to bring you to Hogwarts. But he turned it down. They thought it was stupid that the Grindelwalds had to go to that pure-blood school in Holmstrong. You should..."

Bagshot's words didn't enter Grindelwald's mind. He walked to the kitchen and saw Albus's back.

"You can make it bake faster." Grindelwald said, and when he raised his wand, a burst of blue flames burst into the furnace cellar.Startled, Albus turned his head abruptly, and after seeing Grindelwald's face clearly, he immediately picked up his wand and extinguished the flame.

"It's the pure Muggle way," said Albus. "You just almost ruined the chicken with magic."

Grindelwald said "boring" and turned his attention away from the turkey. He saw the bowl of mince pies on the table and was just about to reach for a piece when Albus stopped him. He said, "Are you here to make trouble for me?"

"I'm here to help." Grindelwald said nonsense with his eyes open.

Albus stared at him for a long time, and finally sighed. He turned around and took out a stick of cream from nowhere, and threw it towards the place where Grindelwald was standing: "Then you help to remove the cream on the cake." The cream has been squeezed, so it looks better, don't make me a cake that looks like the Deathly Hallows, today is Christmas."

Grindelwald has never done this kind of thing with his own hands, and even the posture of holding the cream is wrong. He squeezed the cream for a while as he wished, and used the cream to form a Christmas tree at the level of a child's painting.He has always been a master of scenes. If he saw the cake turned into this appearance, he couldn't help but frown. While Albus was not paying attention, he secretly cast a spell on the cake with his magic wand, and the cake instantly became completely new. Like the ones in the dessert shop window outside.

He put down the cream and handed the cake to Albus, and Albus glanced at it casually, thinking that it was probably okay, so he didn't pay too much attention, and naturally he didn't notice the magic spell on the cake.

Things are done in the kitchen, and finally there is nothing left to do but wait for the turkey to finish roasting.When Grindelwald walked out with Albus, he found Bagshot in the living room telling Anna and Aberforth about the "History of Magic" she was writing.

"This will become the teaching textbook of Hogwarts in the future." Bagshot said, "Understanding our history of magic will be very helpful for your future studies."

Albus also sat down beside him. Aberforth and Grindelwald were obviously not so interested in listening, but Albus and Anna listened carefully.

When the sky gradually began to dim, the turkey, which had been in the cellar for seven hours, was finally brought to the dinner table.Anna hung colorful lights all over the room, and with a wave of Aberforth's wand, those lights were lit up instantly, and the colorful lights illuminated the whole cabin, even Grindelwald couldn't help being a little taken aback.

The temperature in the room rose several degrees. Albus took out two bottles of butterbeer and a bottle of mead, and poured Anna a glass of goat's milk himself. He pulled out a chair and sat down beside Grindelwald.

Grindelwald and Bagshot followed the three brothers and sisters to pray before the meal. After the prayer, Albus raised his glass first, and then the people at the table once again said "Merry Christmas" to each other.

Albus had lived such a long time, and it was the first time he had such a lively Christmas.In the past, on this day, he could only stand by the window of his office, watching the heavy snow blowing outside, slowly swallowing a cup of warm butter beer, with a lemon-flavored snow that he bought in his pocket precious.

At that time, he had nowhere to go back, so he could only stay with this school day and night.

The turkeys sold well, and the mince pies were no exception, and the plates quickly ran out, until at last Aberforth helped bring out the final Christmas cake, and both Anna and Bagshot let out a gasp of surprise. .

"Albus, did you do this?" Anna asked.

"No." Albus replied, "It's Gellert who..."

Before he finished speaking, Albus couldn't take his eyes off the cake. He stared at it for a long time, and then slowly turned his head to look at Grindelwald.

However, Albus didn't say anything, and cut the cake into five small pieces, and Grindelwald was also silent, obviously realizing that Albus had already seen the clues on the cake.

Seeing that the other party didn't expose him, and didn't mean to reprimand him, Grindelwald also ate the cake generously. He didn't like sweets, but he found it delicious after eating, probably because of his Time is passing by a little bit, he thought.

When Albus put the last bite of the cake into his mouth, he watched a shooting star suddenly flashed outside the window, together with the snowflakes that gradually started to fly, he suddenly sighed: "It's time for Santa Claus to go back, right? "

"How old are you, Albus?" Aberforth said with a look of disgust, "That's something only Muggle kids believe."

Albus smiled: "As long as I believe, he will always exist in my heart."

"Are you satisfied with the presents Santa gave you this year, Albus?" Anna interrupted.

"Satisfied." Albus wrapped his left and right hands around the shoulders of Anna and Aberforth, "This is the best gift I've ever received in my life, better than anything and ever."

"How old are you, and how long have you been alive?" Aberforth complained, but his tone was very gentle, "You will receive even better gifts in the future, DumbleDaddy."

Such a warm scene made Grindelwald a little uncomfortable, after all, he had never received the love of his family in his two lifetimes combined.He thought of the Grindelwald family, maybe it was because he stayed in that impersonal place when he was a child that his heart gradually became numb.

He admitted that at first he didn't understand true love, so he turned around and left gracefully.

Christmas ended quickly, and when leaving, Albus whispered something in Grindelwald's ear.On the way back, Grindelwald asked Bagshot to go back by himself first, while he paced slowly in a small forest, as if waiting for someone to catch up from behind.

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps from behind, and it didn't take long for Grindelwald to hear the familiar voice: "Gellert, wait."

Grindelwald turned around and saw Albus put on the scarf he had given him, and couldn't help asking, "Is it warm enough?"

"Enough for the winter."

"Albus, did you keep me waiting to say something?" Grindelwald asked, "Is there anything you can't say in your house?"

"To tell you the truth, I removed the curse on my little piece of cake, look at the pattern..." Ah Bu thought for a while and said, "I guess it's an extremely ugly Christmas tree."

Grindelwald's face darkened for a moment: "Is that why you said this?"

"Of course not, I just remembered."

With that said, Albus took out his wand and stopped between the cedar trees.Seeing his serious expression, Grindelwald was about to ask a question when Albus said, "I thought about it, and I think a bunch of cornflowers is not enough."

Grindelwald froze, not knowing what Albus meant by these words.

I saw Albus stepping forward, he held up Grindelwald's left hand, took out a dagger from his waist, and cut Grindelwald's palm under the other's gaze.

Grindelwald didn't do anything, because he had a similar memory in his memory.At that time, Albus also took such a delicate dagger and cut a hole in their respective palms.

This is the first step in making a blood oath.

Albus then cut his own hand with the dagger, and he slowly held Grindelwald, their fingers intertwined.The moonlight poured down from above their heads through the needles, and everything was quiet and beautiful.

"Gellert, I was ashamed to have loved you," said Albus, "but also proud to have loved you."

"sorry."

"No need to apologize, I made a decision when I first came here." Albus said again, "I absolutely want to stay away from you, Gellert Grindelwald, and I want to accompany Anna and Aberforth Grow up, watch them get married, have kids, have new lives of their own, and then I go back to teaching at Hogwarts and living my meaningful life there. You weren't in my blueprint, Gellert .”

While speaking, the blood of the two gradually blended together, gradually forming a delicate silver pendant in the air.But this time Albus didn't give it to Grindelwald, but grabbed it and stuffed it into his breast pocket.

"Gellert, what did you predict, or see this time?" Albus asked.

Grindelwald closed his eyes and didn't answer for a long time. It was so long that Albus's heart began to panic, and he felt a tear gradually fall from the corner of his eye.

This time, he explained exactly what he saw.

Grindelwald said: "I saw a gravestone with both of our names engraved on it."