dragon and boy

Chapter 36

When a dragon appeared with love and hope, he saved a country in dire straits and became the salvation of Gellert Grindelwald.

Before tonight, Albus never knew how much he meant to Grindelwald.Until just now, Grindelwald was like a pious pilgrim, he whispered a prayer in Albus's ear, and confessed together with his own future, Albus realized that they really loved each other terribly .

Love is no longer mixed with those interests, it is pure.

"It's too bad," Albus sighed, "My lord, you can't do without me."

Grindelwald replied with a smile: "It's my pleasure."

Although it was a spring night in the house, this time things were obviously not as dramatic as before, and Grindelwald's rush to end the dinner unexpectedly did not spread.

The life of the people in the city is still the same, and Albus goes to the church school every day as usual.Early the next morning, Albus pushed open the school gate, and the flower garden appeared in front of him again.

In the blink of an eye, since he left the Forbidden Forest and set foot on this strange land, he has experienced a season of spring, summer, autumn and winter.A few months ago, the flower garden was bare, but now the large expanses of pomegranate flowers once again dyed his vision red.

Walking through the flower garden, he wanted to walk to the church where he was teaching, when Albus suddenly caught a glimpse of three figures in the shade of a tree beside him.

That was Snape, Harry and Leonard.

I don't know what they are talking about, the expression on Harry's face is very ugly, and Leonard is not much better either.

Walking towards the three of them, Albus pulled his open neckline to make sure that the hickey marks on his neck were completely covered, then he saw Snape turn his gaze to himself.

"What happened?" Albus pretended nothing happened, then looked at the two children and asked, "Are you having a good time, kids?"

Snape's gaze swept across Harry and Leonard, and then fixedly stared at Albus. He didn't speak, but waited for Harry to turn his head and look at each other.

"I hope you learn how to respect your teachers."

"I have always respected the teachers I recognized."

Seeing that the two were still facing each other here, Albus felt a little helpless. He patted Harry and Leonard on the shoulders to ease the atmosphere a bit, and chose to bring Snape to the playground where the students practiced knight swordsmanship superior.

There are a lot of small stones in the open space, some feet are resting, and the pits on the ground seem to have accumulated dirty water stains left by the heavy rain a few days ago.

"What did Harry do?" Albus asked.

"Nothing," Snape replied, "I was picking on him."

The expected truth, but Albus didn't expect Snape to be so frank.Next to the playground is a calm river. When he and Grindelwald came here, Albus picked up two stones from the ground, bent down, and threw one of them out with a sudden wave of his hand.The stone bounced several times on the surface of the river, and finally fell into the embrace of the other side of the river.

"Would you like to try?" Albus asked, holding out his hand.

"I am not interested."

"Okay," said Albus, dropping another pebble, "actually, it's kind of fun. We used to play like that when my sister was still around and my brother didn't fall out with me. Also, if I It's Harry Potter, and I'd be aggrieved, too."

"Then bear with it."

Albus turned around, facing the setting sun with his back, even with the light behind him, his skin was extremely fair.Snape was still a few centimeters taller than Dumbledore, and his voice drifted downward to see Albus meeting him with the same gaze.

"Severus." Albus took a deep breath and said, "Leave yourself alone. What kind of person do you want to make the Harry Potter of this world? Want him to be the Harry Potter again? Savior? Or something else? His upbringing should be decided by himself, these are uncontrollable. His character is indeed very similar to his father, you and James have conflicts, but this should not carry over to Harry , whichever should be the case.”

Not knowing exactly which sentence stimulated him, after a brief silence, Snape broke out.He seemed to be pouring out all the emotions that had been suppressed in his heart for decades, clenched his fists tightly, and his lips trembled when he spoke.

"Dumbledore, do you think you really know me well?" Snape, "Don't be so self-righteous, you are not me, and you will never understand what happened between me and James Potter. Harry Potter It's his son, that's never going to change, their personalities are the same, and I hate them. Was, is, and always will be!"

Albus didn't answer, choosing instead to leave the moment to Snape.Snape said he didn't know him, and Albus admitted it, but he felt a little bit of the other's ambivalence.

It is indeed a very painful thing to hate and like someone at the same time.

Snape had always had a cold look before, and he always seemed to be thinking about something when he stared at others.Even when he was angry, he would always just stare at his bottomless black eyes and stand there without saying a word.

Albus had seen Snape in any form before, but this one opened his eyes again.

But he firmly believed that the love in Snape's heart was far greater than hatred, otherwise the other party would not have given him the infant baby, let alone asked him to let him teach in this church school.

Snape is a sensible person, but sometimes, disagreement is the biggest obstacle to their communication.

Albus saw Leonard at the school gate again, and the other party seemed to have been waiting here for a long time, and it seemed that he came here specially to find him.Leonard was much taller than when Albus first met him, and this face somewhat similar to Grindelwald made him soften his tone.

"What's the matter?" Albus asked, "My little prince."

Albus and Leonard, apart from the occasional royal dinner, did not have much private contact.It has long been heard that Grindelwald married the princess of another country to this cheap brother who fell from the sky, and Albus also guessed the other party's next plan, so he stared at Leonard carefully. Without growing up, the childish face can easily be seen to be happy, angry, sad and happy.

Just like at this moment, an angry prince stood in front of him.Leonard said angrily: "Severus Snape, I will definitely find a way to persuade my brother to let him leave here."

"Your brother doesn't care about it, you just have to convince me," said Albus. "Tell me, what do you want to complain about him?"

"Arrogance, arrogance, viciousness, domineering, moody..." Leonard replied, "I can find all the shortcomings of people in him. He targets Harry and me all the time. It's the Prince of Durmstrang, and he's just a well-known pharmacist at Hogwarts!"

"You are wrong, he is also a prince."

"Which country?"

Ah Bu thought for a while, and said: "I don't know, at least everyone calls him the Half-Blood Prince. Your Professor Snape does have many problems, but you can't just see his shortcomings, Leonard, I can call him that directly. Do you? Snape has his capital, not only the knowledge in his head is worth learning, he is one of the bravest people in history."

"What history?"

"A History of Magic."

"what is that?"

Albus shook his head and said, "Secret."

Listening to Leonard's words and tone just now, it is not difficult to hear the improvement of his relationship with the Iron Triangle, and this is the result that Albus most wants to see.Leonard's nature is not bad, but he has been spoiled by the extravagant life for so many years. He originally thought that Harry could slowly change Leonard's personality in a subtle way, but he didn't expect the relationship between the two to break through so fast.

"What do you think of Harry and the others?" Albus asked.

The topic was changed, Leonard obviously didn't expect Albus to be interested in this question, he looked at Albus suspiciously, hesitated for a while before saying: "Harry is too straightforward, Ron looks poor, Looks silly, only Hermione looks like a normal person."

Very fair evaluation.

Albus was very satisfied with this answer, and was glad to have made this decision which seemed to be the right one at present.

"Dumbledore?" Leonard called out, his tone rising, as if asking Albus if he could call him that.

"Albus."

Leonard cleared his throat, he took a step forward, straightened his back, raised his head, as if he wanted to make himself look less weak: "You and... my brother, you will become Dem Queen of Strong?"

"Yes," said Albus flatly, "but I will only exist for a short time in the long history of Durmstrang."

Leonard asked back: "You mean you will leave?"

"Everyone will leave."

"But you are a dragon," Leonard said, "and also Durmstrang's admonisher."

"But I always have the flesh and blood and heart of a human being." Albus said quietly, "I will age just like you, and I only have a short life span of less than 100 years. I also have rich emotions like you, so I will fall in love with Gellert. The only difference is that I can use everything I got from the dragon to protect you and guard this country with your majesty the king, but this is not permanent, we always have One day, maybe in the not-too-distant future."

Perhaps these words were too esoteric for the young Leonard, but Albus felt that it was time to guide him on that path step by step.It will be a matter of time before Leonard takes over Gellert's position, but to become a qualified king, the learning content cannot be completed overnight.

"What about after quitting?" Leonard asked, "What about Durmstrang? Where will you go?"

"Durmstrang will have a better monarch, as for us..." Ah Bu thought for a while, and found that since he settled down here, he had never thought about the future.

After thinking for a while, Albus still shook his head: "Let's leave the future to the future to think about. But I'm sure it will be an unprecedented blueprint."