A Certain Magical Hogwarts

Chapter 886 All-Star Professor Lineup

Grindelwald is dead... probably the least funny joke of the year.

It wasn't a joke because William knew that the first Dark Lord was searching for Death.

Isn't this just courting death?

As for jokes... Grindelwald couldn't possibly have died before meeting Death.

The only way to meet the Grim Reaper is through seppuku (ritual suicide by disembowelment).

However, Grigorovich had no reason to lie; he didn't hate Grindelwald.

Back when the first Dark Lord ravaged Europe, he was not harmed.

Not to mention, he even saved him from being chased by the Kraken.

What a kind person!

Grigorovich was probably the first wizard to give Grindelwald a "friend zone" card.

Even Dumbledore wouldn't dare to go against his conscience and issue such a card.

At most, he'll issue one card that truly embodies boyfriend charm.

In any case, based on their time together these past few days, Grigorovich believes that the Dark Lord has definitely reformed himself in Nurmengard.

What this wand maker didn't know was that the young man who stole his Old Man Wand years ago... was Grindelwald.

Otherwise, they would definitely go up there and fight to the death!

Therefore, Grigorovich would not deliberately spread the news that Grindelwald was dead.

How did the Dark Lord die?

Grigorovich said a lot, which can be translated as:

"When the sea monster is born, it is the most vicious. It can eat people and suck them up in one gulp from a distance of forty-five miles."

Grindelwald, having attained a golden body atop the snow-capped mountain, was sucked into its belly and attempted to exit through its anus...

Ahem... This is a mix-up; it's about the experiences of the great sorcerer, Buddha Tathagata.

However, Grindelwald is similar.

He was swallowed by the Kraken and didn't emerge from its back... It's estimated that he has been turned into excrement and excreted into the sea.

Well, that's certainly a flavorful way to die.

But William certainly didn't believe that Grindelwald would be digested by the siren.

Led by Grigovich, the group entered the snow house.

It's called a snow house, but the inside has been expanded countless times using a seamless stretching spell.

A palace made of ice and snow appeared before everyone.

—The palace of the Snow Queen.

But the palace had long since collapsed and was almost a ruin, with broken walls and rubble everywhere.

William walked at the front, raising his wand high so that the light emanating from it illuminated everyone.

The wide, ice-carved staircase, though uneven and bumpy, is still walkable.

They climbed about two hundred steps to reach the top.

At the end of the stairs was a tilted archway and a long, excavated corridor leading into the darkness.

Olaf stood on Elsa's shoulder, constantly guiding the way, without encountering any danger or hearing any strange noises.

Only the light emanating from William's wand illuminated the path ahead.

After walking for about ten minutes, the group finally entered a spacious hall.

The crystal walls, shimmering like glass, reflected green light onto the diamond-shaped stained-glass windows on the sloping walls.

William soon discovered where the green light came from: in the center of the hall, there was a small, green pool.

The water was a deep, emerald green, though not large.

"Grindelwald lured the Kraken here, and then jumped in when the octopus opened its mouth wide," Grigorovich said.

"Don't touch the lake water," Elsa warned. "This is the Lake of Reason from the story of 'The Snow Queen'."

If you touch the lake, you'll never be able to leave this castle unless you spell out eternity.

William nodded; in fact, even without her reminder, he wouldn't have touched the lake.

He could sense that the water contained powerful magic, far more terrifying than the lake filled with undead in the Horcrux Cave.

Hermione searched the other side, and after a moment, she called out, "William, there's a fishing rod here!"

William walked over, bent down to examine the fishing rod, and began to ponder it carefully.

This is a magical item; William had seen something similar with Nico before.

According to Nico, it was his fishing rod for sea fishing.

However, it wasn't for catching ordinary fish, but for catching the magical sea serpent.

The fishing line can be over a thousand meters long. Once a sea snake takes the bait, it will be automatically pulled up, and then... made into snake soup.

Occasionally, I'll go fishing for giant squid and colossal squid, these deep-sea creatures.

When it comes to enjoying life, William has never seen anyone surpass Nicole.

The fishing rod in front of me is a similar magical item.

It was probably used by Grindelwald to fish for the Kraken.

William picked up the fishing rod, flicked his wrist, and the fishing line swung up, soaring into the air.

There seemed to be no end to it, and I hadn't seen a fishhook in ages.

How long must this fishing line be? Five hundred meters? Eight hundred meters? William waited patiently for the hook to come out of the water.

A moment later, the fishing line was pulled to its end, and a shadow emerged from the bottom of the pool.

But as it approached the water's surface, the siren's enormous body collapsed rapidly in a strange way.

The octopus, which was supposed to be 100 meters long, ended up being only the size of a palm, floating on the surface of the water.

An unseen force prevented it from leaving the pool; it was completely trapped.

William gave it another hard tug, and with a snap, the fishhook came out of the siren's mouth.

One end was tied to an old man.

As Grindelwald drifted away from the octopus's mouth along the fishing line, his body immediately began to grow larger.

He stepped on the siren's head, using the momentum to float towards the shore, and landed lightly beside William.

The old man checked himself to make sure he wasn't soaked in the lake water, then breathed a sigh of relief, looked at William, and smiled:

"You've finally arrived... Of course, I foresaw this scene long ago in my own eyes."

Grindelwald seemed to have not spoken to anyone in a long time, and said sarcastically:

Last year on the banks of the Danube, I asked you to come with me to the north of the North Sea, but you refused.

"So, I told you you'd get fired, and you did, right?"

William: "..."

How did Dumbledore put up with this person when he was young?

William really wanted to give him a green Avada Kedavra to eat.

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Lakeside

Grindelwald sat on the ground, flipping through the book of fairy tales, seemingly lost in memories.

William, meanwhile, fiddled with his fishing rod, constantly using dragon meat as bait to tease the palm-sized North Sea monster.

Anyway, it can't get out of the lake.

William has no doubt that Grindelwald was able to predict this day in advance.

For Grindelwald, it was child's play.

How exaggerated were the prophetic abilities of the first Dark Lord?

In 1927, at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, Grindelwald gave a public speech, showing wizards prophetic images of the atomic bomb explosion.

To make a prediction twenty years in advance, with such incredibly detailed images... what kind of terrifying ability is this?

Even Professor Trelawney in her Great Prophet mode would likely be no match for him, and might even be so ashamed as to smash the prophecy orb.

Let's be reasonable...

Dumbledore should have sent Grindelwald to Hogwarts to be the Divination professor.

Killing two birds with one stone, isn't that wonderful?

To take it a step further, he should have agreed to let Voldemort become the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor back then.

Then they invited Nico to teach alchemy, and Newt taught them a course on protecting magical creatures.

Finally, the old witch Babling teaches ancient magic script... what an all-star lineup!

Perhaps only when the four giants were deans could they be compared to them?

If a magical school education were to be evaluated, Hogwarts, with its faculty, would absolutely crush the rest of the world.

Unfortunately, Hogwarts missed a great opportunity to rise to prominence.

If these people are still alive when William becomes the principal, he will definitely recruit them as professors.

Even if it's just a title, even if it's just a soul... that's good too.

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