Chapter 490 Christmas Ball (End)

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Joyful notes beat, and amid the cheers and laughter of the crowd, Grindelwald and Dumbledore held hands together.

Both of them put on serious dancing expressions, but they couldn't stop the smiles on their faces.

They put their arms around each other's shoulders, held their other hands together and moved forward, dancing a traditional British country dance.

The dance steps of the two old men were very brisk. They stood on tiptoes and danced a little from time to time. Although the dance steps were simple, everyone around them could feel the joy of dancing, and they could also feel the happiness from their hearts.

The music became more and more cheerful. They faced each other, their hands dropped to their sides, and their hands swayed naturally with the movements of their bodies.

Sean, who was originally stunned, started to laugh as he watched. He raised the corners of his mouth and clapped his hands together with the people around him.

Only at this time can these two people dance happily together in public...

Everyone vacated the dance floor. One was the most popular headmaster of Hogwarts, and the other was the newly appointed iron-blooded chairman of the International Federation of Wizards. The wonderful combination did not make anyone feel out of place. They danced a simple song. The dance steps were so harmonious, and their smiles were so bright.

Someone nearby clapped their hands and sighed: "I didn't even go to school when Mr. Grindelwald was the principal of Nurmengard. At that time, I heard that the principals of the two schools didn't get along very well..."

"Don't be stupid, they must be old friends." Fred and George were the most excited. One of them whistled, and the other taught the freshman next to him.

After hearing this, other people also sighed: "Yes, it looks like they have such a good relationship."

Sean was stunned when he heard this, and felt a slight bitterness in his heart.

While everyone thinks these two are old rivals, they are actually the most steadfast comrades-in-arms.

When everyone thought that the two were old friends who had been hiding for a long time, only Sean knew that the relationship between the two was actually extremely fragile - when the final truth was revealed, no one could predict the direction of things.

Be it Dumbledore or Grindelwald.

The dance music echoed happily in the auditorium, and Dumbledore and Grindelwald seemed to be completely immersed in it. They repeated the dance steps they knew over and over again, regardless of the eyes of others.

Sean also changed from smiling at the beginning to being slightly stiff.

I know you can't help it, but can you restrain yourself a little bit...

The two have been dancing for almost twenty minutes!

He just heard someone muttering quietly, and Rita Skeeter had just appeared on the side of the auditorium, her quill dancing rapidly at the moment.

Skeeter looked excited as hell, like a mouse who had seen cheese.

This is quite a feat. People’s imaginations are very rich.

And there was a conversation taking place in the middle of the dance floor that no one else could hear.

"How many years, Albus?"

"Many years, Gellert."

Grindelwald was still smiling, but there was a sense of loneliness in his voice: "It's really sad..."

Dumbledore smiled so hard that his eyebrows trembled: "Maybe this is destined..."

"You know everything? What I know and what I don't know?"

"When the time comes and you retrieve all your memories, you will naturally know everything." There was a trace of sadness in Dumbledore's eyes that made Grindelwald uneasy.

He was silent for a moment, then laughed again: "Now, it's none of my business."

"You haven't changed at all." Dumbledore also smiled.

Although no sound reached the ears of others, others were not blind either. Someone was muttering in a low voice.

"Hey, look, are Mr. Grindelwald and Professor Dumbledore whispering?"

"It does look like it, although I didn't hear the sound..."

Sean felt bad in his heart. If he could, he would never interrupt the two people's long-lost dance and conversation, but now...

The most important thing is that Sean knows that the two of them do not want to make their relationship public.

But today, the top...

As the best student, what should I do...

Sean looked around, then winked at Daisy.

"Huh?" Xiao Baihua kept clapping vigorously, and for a moment she didn't realize what Sean wanted to do.

"follow me."

He grabbed Daisy's hand and walked onto the dance floor, pretending to be dissatisfied, but with a smile on his face.

"Two professors, how can there be no other participants in the progressive double-column country dance?"

Grindelwald looked over, with a satisfied expression in his eyes, and laughed loudly: "I almost forgot, it's not us two old men who deserve to be in the limelight today."

Dumbledore also cast a grateful look.

Sean smiled up, put his arm around Daisy's waist and joined in the dance.

Progressive double-column country dance generally involves dancers dancing in a specific formation one after another in a predetermined order. The dance steps are generally relatively simple, but the changes in formation and marching route are strictly precise.

Of course, these two old men didn't care about anything else when they were high.

But Sean's joining at this time is reasonable, because every time a "trick" is changed, a pair of dancing partners must be replaced as the leader. The leading dance partner can be unique, and the others must imitate them.

Sean and Daisy first imitated the dance steps of Dumbledore and Grindelwald, then smiled at each other during the dance rhythm and took the lead dance position.

The two danced cheerfully, and others joined in. Grindelwald and Dumbledore mixed in with the crowd, imitating the cheerful dance steps of Sean and Daisy.

Everyone was laughing happily - except Snape.

Every time Sean grabbed Daisy's hand and put his arm around Daisy's waist, he wanted to crush the red wine glass in his hand.

Under the leadership of Sean and Daisy, everyone joined the double-column country dance. The two brothers Fred and George were leading the dance now. Touch the other person's face with an ecstatic expression.

Their dance partners, Angelina and Aaliyah Spinnet, didn't look unhappy at all. They laughed loudly and looked extremely satisfied with their dance partners.

Of course, no one could imitate the twin brothers' dancing, but when the dance ended, everyone gave them warm applause.

Grindelwald and Dumbledore stood on one side, applauding gently and looking at the people with smiles on their faces.

Sean looked over and met the eyes of both of them - he didn't even know who to signal to first.

Dumbledore smiled warmly at Sean, while Grindelwald raised his eyebrows.

Sean turned back to the blushing Daisy and said, "Mr. Grindelwald called me. I'll go out and get you some drinks. What do you want to drink?"

Daisy clutched her chest and gasped slightly. She nodded empathetically: "Then a cup of warm butter beer, thank you~"

Sean followed Grindelwald who went out quietly, and the two quickly arrived at the corridor.

"More and more, Sean." Grindelwald praised.

Sean shrugged: "This is a rare opportunity, but I don't want to disturb you."

Grindelwald looked at the horizon with his hands behind his back, and the raised corners of his mouth slowly calmed down: "Sean, tell me, what did I do in the future that I hid myself, and what role did he play? "

Sean turned to look at him, a little surprised - Grindelwald did not seem to be such a worried and entangled person.

Sure enough, Grindelwald seemed to just sigh. He said to himself without waiting for Sean to answer: "It's really interesting..."

Sean blinked, is that interesting... the world was almost destroyed...

However, he is also very curious about what will happen in the future.

Grindelwald looked at the waning moon hanging in the sky for a while, then moved his neck. He took out a box from his robe and handed it to Sean.

"What is this?" Sean took it doubtfully.

He said in a relaxed tone: "I went on a trip to the McFasty family and had some... ha, friendly exchanges."

Sean: "..."

Do the McFasty family think so too...

"In the previous bet, they should have paid some price, and then under my benevolent gaze, they decided to compensate you for their family's treasured gadgets - this is it."

Sean opened the box and was surprised to find a crystal inside.

The light green crystal is expanding and contracting back and forth as if it is alive. If you look carefully, you can see that there is something like a meridian beating inside - it is this thing that drives the expansion and contraction of the crystal.

"Is this...Dragon Heartstring?" Sean raised his head in surprise.

"That's right." Grindelwald nodded easily.

Sean was even more surprised. You must know that the dragon heartstrings used as wand materials are all dead. It is impossible for a powerful creature like a dragon to let you take out the dragon heartstrings while it is alive.

Even after death, the dragon's heartstring will take a long time to be used - because the dragon's heart gathers the powerful magic power of the fire dragon, and the dragon's heartstring is the toughest part of the dragon's heart.

If you use a fresh dragon heartstring rashly, the wand itself will have completely uncontrollable magic power. This magic power will even backfire on the wizard himself. It may be just by holding the wand and using a few small magic spells, the dragon magic power on the dragon heartstring will be In turn, it causes uncontrollable damage to the wizard - similar to the failure of transformation.

The dragon's heartstring can only be used long after the dragon dies. At the same time, in order to maintain the dragon's heartstring's openness and tolerance to magic, it must always stay in the dragon's heart.

Therefore, the dragon heartstring used as the core material of the wand can never be alive.

The dragon's heartstrings in front of him were still beating, as if they had just been taken out of a living dragon - but Grindelwald said that this was a collection of the MacFasty family, and it had obviously been preserved for a long time.

"This dragon heartstring is a good thing," Grindelwald explained slowly. "Its owner should be the real owner of the Hebridean Islands thousands of years ago, a mutated black dragon of the Hebridean Islands."

"A mutated black dragon?"

"Just like your curled-winged demon, that black dragon appears to be very special in the records - the Hebridean Islands were not originally the territory of the black dragon. The mutated black dragon drove away the then lord, a group of tree peak dragons. .”

Sean's eyes widened: "A group of tree dragons? The tree dragons are originally from Scotland? Wait a minute, a black dragon kills a group of tree dragons?!"

The Tree Peak Dragon is the topmost existence among the fire dragons, and only the Ukrainian Iron Belly can barely compete with it.

Grindelwald nodded: "So, you can think so - except for some communities scattered around the world, all the existing black dragons in the Hebridean Islands are descendants of this black dragon. Well, if this black dragon is still alive If so, one dragon can probably destroy a country."

Sean looked at the box in his hand and became more and more surprised that the origin of this dragon heartstring was so great.

"After the black dragon died of natural causes, the dragon's heartstrings were preserved by some kind of magic by the McFasty family at that time. I would like to ask about that kind of magic, but these idiots can't even learn the ancestral spell. It’s really embarrassing…but at least I have something left behind, just for you.”

"How can this be so embarrassing..." Sean put the box away quickly.

Grindelwald glanced at him: "You are becoming more and more shameless."

"It's all because of the teacher's good teaching." Sean said modestly.

"Well done." Grindelwald smiled proudly.

Sean was also very passionate at this time. After receiving the honor of being a wand manufacturer, he suffered from the lack of powerful wand materials to improve or create a new magic wand.

But with this dragon heartstring, his new wand may reach a terrifying strength. It may not be as strong as the elder wand, but it can definitely surpass other wands!

More importantly, Sean believes that Grindelwald also considered another point before snatching the dragon heartstring from the McFasty family.

Sean can transform into a fire dragon according to the core of the staff!

A black dragon from the Hebridean Islands that can destroy a country, and Sean happens to have the magic power of Obscurus to support it. This will be a huge improvement to his combat power!

The satisfied master and apprentice chatted for a while, and when they were about to return to the auditorium, Sean remembered a doubt and asked again: "Teacher, I have a question."

"explain."

"Both you and Professor Dumbledore told me at the beginning that the more people know and believe the prophecy, the easier it will come true. But now, [Arrogance] is real, and I seem to be unable to resist its awakening. If I If you tell others about this prophecy..."

Grindelwald raised his eyebrows: "What Albus and I said is still valid. You can understand that the more people know, the faster the guilt will wake up, and the stronger the power will be when it wakes up. If this prophecy is now If I tell the world, even if Albus and I join forces, we may not be able to deal with the awakened [Arrogance], and there are other bastards watching in the dark."

Sean lowered his head in disappointment. He originally wanted to find an opportunity to explain this to Daisy and Hermione.

Grindelwald looked at him and then slapped him hard on the head.

"Ouch——"

"Idiot, do you have to tell the true details of the prophecy? Can't you put it another way?" Grindelwald said with a look of hatred.

Sean covered his head and suddenly realized, yes, why do I have to worry about the authenticity of the prophecy? Can't I just put it another way?

"Okay, let's go back." Grindelwald put his hands behind his back and walked leisurely towards the auditorium.

When they returned to the auditorium, the Weird Sisters were playing a soothing song, and the men and women were hugging each other and slowly swaying on the dance floor.

Sean returned to Daisy, the two smiled at each other and walked onto the dance floor again.

The little white flower was leaning on Sean's shoulder, and they were swaying gently.

"What a nice Christmas."

In the auditorium, countless people sighed in low voices.