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He tried to return her watery smile, then turned his attention to the bookIts spine was stiff; it had clearly never been opened beforeHe riffled through the pages, looking for photographsHe came across the one he sought almost at once, the young Dumbledore and his handsome companion, roaring with laughter at some long-forgotten jokeHarry dropped his eyes to the caption
\cAlbus Dumbledore, shortly after his mother's death,
With his friend Gellert Grindelwald
\cHarry gaped at the last word for several long momentsHis friend GrindelwaldHe looked sideways at Hermione, who was still contemplating the name as though she could not believe her eyesSlowly she looked up at Harry
"\iGrindelwald!\i"
Ignoring the remainder of the photographs, Harry searched the pages around them for a recurrence of that fatal nameHe soon discovered it and read greedily, but became lost: It was necessary to go farther back to make sense of it all, and eventually he found himself at the start of a chapter entitled "The Greater Good Together, he and Hermione started to read:
Now approaching his eighteenth birthday, Dumbledore left Hogwarts in a blaze of glory \a150\a150 Head Boy, Prefect, Winner of the Barnabus Finkley Prize for Exceptional Spell-Casting, British Youth Representative to the Wizengamot, Gold knock off chanel wholesale purse Medal-Winner for Ground-Breaking Contribution to the International Alchemical Conference in CairoDumbledore intended, next, to take a Grand Tour with Elphias "Dogbreath" Doge, the dim-witted but devoted sidekick he had picked up at school
The two young men were staying at the Leaky Cauldron in London, preparing to depart for Greece the following morning, when an owl arrived bearing news of Dumbledore's mother's death"Dogbreath" Doge, who refused to be interviewed for this book, has given the public his own sentimental
version of what happened nextHe represents Kendra's death as a tragic blow, and Dumbledore's decision to give up his expedition as an act of noble self-sacrifice
Certainly Dumbledore returned to Godric's Hollow at once, supposedly to "care" for his younger brother and sisterBut how much care did he actually give them?
"He were a head case, that Aberforth," said Enid Smeek, whose family lived on the outskirts of Godric's Hollow at that time'Course, with his mum and dad gone you'd have felt sorry for him, only he kept chucking goat dung at my headI don't think Albus was fussed about himI never saw them together, anyway
So what was Albus doing, if not comforting his wild young brother? The answer, it seems, is ensuring the continued imprisonment of his sisterFor though her first louis vuitton purple bag jailer had died, there was no change in the pitiful condition of Ariana DumbledoreHer very existence continued to be known only to those few outsiders who, like "Dogbreath" Doge, could be counted upon to believe in the story of her "ill health
Another such easily satisfied friend of the family was Bathilda Bagshot, the celebrated magical historian who has lived in Godric's Hollow for many yearsKendra, of course, had rebuffed Bathilda when she first attempted to welcome the family to the villageSeveral years later, however, the author sent an owl to Albus at Hogwarts, having been favorably impressed by his paper on trans-species transformation in \iTransfiguration Today\iThis initial contract led to acquaintance with the entire Dumbledore familyAt the time of Kendra's death, Bathilda was the only person in Godric's Hollow who was on speaking terms with Dumbledore's mother
Unfortunately, the brilliance that Bathilda exhibited earlier in her life has now dimmed"The fire's lit, but the cauldron's empty," as Ivor Dillonsby put it to me, or, in Enid Smeek's slightly earthier phrase, "She's nutty as squirrel poo Nevertheless, a combination of tried-and-tested reporting techniques enabled me to extract enough nuggets of hard fact to string together the whole scandalous story
Like the rest of chanel sheepskin bag the Wizarding world, Bathilda puts Kendra's premature death down to a backfiring charm, a story repeated by Albus and Aberforth in later yearsBathilda also parrots the family line on Ariana, calling her "frail" and "delicate On one subject, however, Bathilda is well worth the effort I put into procuring Veritaserum, for she, and she alone, knows the full story of the best-kept secret of Albus Dumbledore's lifeNow revealed for the first time, it calls into question everything that his admirers believed of Dumbledore: his supposed hatred of the Dark Arts, his opposition into the oppression of Muggles, even his devotion to his own family
The very same summer that Dumbledore went home to Godric's Hollow, now an orphan and head of the family, Bathilda Bagshot agreed to accept into her home her great-nephew, Gellert Grindelwald
The name of Grindelwald is justly famous: In a list of Most Dangerous Dark Wizards of All Time, he would miss out on the top spot only because You-
Know-Who arrived, a generation later, to steal his crownAs Grindelwald never extended his campaign of terror to Britain, however, the details of his rise to power are not widely known here
Educated at Durmstrang, a school famous even then for its unfortunate tolerance of the Dark Arts, Grindelwald showed himself quite as d
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