Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 363: Reactionary Conservatives
"You..."

In the office of the Dancing Grass Restaurant, Grindelwald poked Charles' head with his finger and seemed really angry.

"I saw that Albus was exhausted, so I dealt with Black's problem ahead of time, and now you're giving him more work!"

Charles was very depressed. Dumbledore had been busy since he met Augustus Rookwood that day and had not been at Hogwarts for half of the week.

Today was the first Hogsmeade week of the new semester. He came to the restaurant to take stock of last year's data, but was caught and scolded by Grindelwald.

Charles muttered, "Why don't you just become the president of the International Confederation of Wizards and mobilize wizards all over the world to kill Voldemort."

Grindelwald sat down on the chair and said angrily: "Then you should go and settle the score with Newt Scamander. If it weren't for him, I would have been the emperor long ago."

Charles was too lazy to pay attention to his past events from decades ago and continued, "I guess the headmaster will restart the Order of the Phoenix. Why don't you join and help?"

"I don't have time to play house." A flash of sarcasm flashed across Grindelwald's face. "Albus always thinks that relying on his personal charm to win over those people is a good choice, but it doesn't work. It's far worse than me using ideals and interests to raise an army."

Charles shook his head as he listened to his boasting, shrugged and said, "You still lost to him in the end."

Grindelwald's expression suddenly became very interesting, and he finally said bitterly: "I just lost to the reactionary conservatives."

"Let's not talk about this." He began to change the subject. "Yesterday a young lady from Africa came to see you. Her name was Catherine... I think it was Colette?"

"I don't remember, maybe this, I can't hear the African accent clearly."

"She said she had a wonderful encounter with you before, and she knew you would come today, so she said she would come to see you in the afternoon."

Charles said with a frown, "It must be Catherine Clayt, I met her in Vagado two years ago. I helped her get in touch with Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall to discuss some issues related to Transfiguration."

Grindelwald nodded and said, "Yes, that's his name. He said he met you at the party."

"I talked to her for a while. She's a very smart kid and the research she's doing is very interesting."

"She has now been fired by those stupid bastards in Vagado. You can let her live in Falbatten Castle."

Charles rolled his eyes at Grindelwald. The so-called unclear last name and the encounter were just to confirm whether he really knew Catherine.

At the same time, Charles was surprised that Catherine was fired, and even more surprised that Grindelwald actually admired her.

"Do you see yourself in her?" Charles suddenly remembered something. "I remember you were expelled from Durmstrang for studying the Dark Arts."

Charles was very curious about the dark magic that even a school like Durmstrang, which was tolerant of it, considered too evil, but he had never been able to ask.

Just then Grindelwald asked him, "Do you know what I was expelled for?"

Charles thought about it, recalled some of the Durmstrang research that Erica had told him about before, excluded the acceptable parts, and asked tentatively: "Are you using humans for experiments?"

Grindelwald shook his head slightly and said, "We haven't reached that stage yet."

The corner of Charles' mouth twitched, which meant that it was only a matter of time.

Grindelwald suddenly smiled and said, "Come to think of it, that idiot Aberforth has inherited part of my research." Charles frowned. Aberforth wanted to turn sheep into humans to serve as waiters. He had studied his notes and found that it was feasible to a certain extent, but the application scenarios were limited, so he did not study it further.

Catherine studies human transfiguration. Unlike the old man's method of changing appearance, her goal is to allow people to transform into animals on their own accord like Animagus, rather than through other people's spells or potions.

Voldemort's appearance as a two-hole socket is not a human transfiguration, but a human body modification. He becomes that way permanently and cannot change back.

Charles sighed and asked, "You don't want to start with animal and human transfiguration, and then study human transformation?"

Grindelwald nodded and replied, "I did have such a plan, but when I was doing animal experiments, I vaguely realized that this was the wrong path."

"I later returned to Durmstrang and found a notebook on a hidden shelf deep in the library. It contained various experiments and results on human body modification."

"Many wizards have conducted human experiments in the past. They have tried all the methods that can be thought of now, but the final result is always destruction."

Charles nodded when he heard this. There was no human rights hundreds or thousands of years ago, so it was not surprising that wizards captured people for experiments. Even in the 21st century, there are still illegal human medical experiments.

"However, some limited changes in direction would be beneficial," Grindelwald continued.

Charles adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose and shook his head, saying, "Forget it. No one can tell where the so-called finite boundary is."

"Now the entire wizarding society has zero tolerance for body modification, and even myopia is not treated."

He once asked Madam Pomfrey if she could cure Harry's myopia, and later learned a lesson. Wizards now believe that any spell other than curing injuries on the human body is evil, and myopia is not an injury but a natural result of the human body.

Grindelwald waved his hands angrily and said, "Reactionary conservatives are standing in the way of development!"

"Do you know the Muggle Pope Innocent VIII? He died from a blood transfusion. Can you guess why someone dared to give him a blood transfusion?"

Charles blinked, as if understanding.

Innocent VIII died in the year Columbus arrived in Cuba. The International Statute of Secrecy and the Treaty of Nerchinsk were signed in the same year, two hundred years apart. It was normal for wizards to serve the powerful at that time.

Maybe there was a wizard who was researching ways to prolong life through blood transfusions, and he succeeded because he was lucky and had the right blood type, but Innocent VIII failed because of his blood type problem.

Grindelwald continued, "At that time, some wizards had already begun to study blood transfusions, and some wizards had proposed the concept of blood types, but because of this incident, the research on blood was interrupted."

Charles nodded, it made some sense.

A sudden flash of inspiration came to his mind, and the corners of his mouth curved into a strange arc.

Grindelwald snorted coldly. He had seen that Charles was interested in the development of magic and wanted to use this as a point of entry to win him over, but he didn't expect to be discovered.

Charles was not interested in what the big guys did. It was enough for him to do his job well.

Grindelwald returned to the topic: "Animagus is a branch of human transfiguration. Her research broke the wizards' original understanding of Animagus. It is not surprising that she was expelled."

(End of this chapter)