Magic Ministry inside of a certain lavish office there is a 50-year-old man in front of a little girl with bushy hair and large front teeth who is sat down in a chair with a nervous expression on her face while holding tightly the gem of her skirt.
"I need your help, Miss Granger, as you saw Gellert Grindelwald is a very dangerous wizard, tell me please has anybody approached you that you didn't know?" said the man while looking inquisitively at the little girl in front of her.
Hermione shook her head with a nervous expression as she said "No, I haven't met anyone in these days, my first contact with the magical world has been barely this month"
Fudge smiled stiffly and his eyes hardened as he heard that answer. "Miss Granger there has been a lot of eyewitnesses that saw you been saved by him... Why did he save you?, there must be something, please think it carefully Miss Granger"
The door of the office was suddenly opened and a fat woman that was wearing a complete pink outfit walked in quickly to Fudged and gave him a newspaper, Hermione could read the name of the newspaper that spelled 'Daily Prophet'
"We couldn't stop the Daily Prophet and other newspapers to not publish this news... And even if we could manage to barely do it, there were too many eyewitnesses in Diagon Alley, Mr. Fudge" said the fat woman with a high pitched voice while looking apologetic at Fudge as she gave him the newspaper.
Fudge face turned paled from a moment, and then started to change to blue and red. He took a deep breath as he took the newspaper and started to read out loud.
"Comeback of the True Dark Lord"
Gellert Grindelwald my dear readers is free, and he used dark magic to get on his prime time, yes, you're reading correctly Gellert Grindelwald the responsible for the first Wizarding War is free and seems to be as powerful as ever.
Yesterday, Gellert Grindelwald made his comeback in Diagon Alley, he challenged Albus Dumbledore our greatest light wizard the one who defeated Grindelwald the first time... But that was not the only horrifying surprise we had yesterday, Death Eaters presented and dueled with Grindelwald, as they cast their famous mark, the mark of that of we shall not speak of.
7 Death Eaters confronted Grindelwald but as the former Greatest Dark Lord, Grindelwald toyed with the Death Eaters as if they were boys learning how to cast a spell, killing with no difficulty some of them, and when Grindelwald was about to kill the others Death Eaters, our greatest light wizard came to stage to save the Death Eaters, quite ironic don't you think my dear readers?
Dumbledore and Grindelwald had what can be described for all of the witnesses as a legendary duel that will be record in the annals of magical history.
But that's not all Aurors were present in that battle making that duel to be an 11 vs 1. I'm sorry to say that only two Aurors survived that legendary battle, as the battle started to unfold many of surprised were given, as one special revelation one that you know who would prefer to keep in secret, the dark mark my dear readers was just a copy to one of the powerful spells of Grindelwald, who would know right?, that green skull that opened his mouth and let a serpent came out of it, that made us so afraid of him, was just a copy of the original spell of Grindelwald and one of his trump cards in that Legendary Duel.
The result was one that we and nobody expected, as Grindelwald dominated in all of the aspects at our champion Albus Dumbledore and the Aurors of the Magic Ministry.
I'm sorry to say this but it seems that the Magic Ministry doesn't have decent Aurors or that's what it looked like when they fight with Grindelwald and were treated as children.
In that Legendary duel Albus lost a hand to Grindelwald and his wand, everybody saw as Grindelwald collected his wand, and as our champion Albus Dumbledore was plumbing from the sky, an Old Hero appeared to save him.
Newton Scamander the famous magizoologist and the author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them., you should all know that he also fought with Grindelwald in the First Wizarding War, he contributed a lot in the defeat of Grindelwald, Newton Scamander saved our light wizard Albus Dumbledore, and joined hands with him and his creatures that he carries all over the world in his emblematic suitcase.
Who would thought 2 Legendary Duels would happened in the same day, if you ask me dear readers this one was more exciting than the first one, on one side we had Gellert Grindelwald, the former Greatest Dark Lord the magic world has seen, and in the other side we had Albus Dumbledore the Supreme Mugwump and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot with his emblematic pet Fawkes the phoenix, Newton Scamander the famous magizoologist accompanied by a Black Dragon, a Thunderbird and a Nundu.
Yes, readers a Nundu, it's classified as the most dangerous magical creature it's said even if 100 wizards confront one of them it would be difficult to take them down.
And here we had Grindelwald battling with the combined forces of Dumbledore, Scamander, a dragon, a phoenix, a Thunderbird, and a legendary Nundu.
If you want to look at pieces of the battle jump to page 3 where some of the sequences of the fight can be seen.
Grindelwald at the begin of the battle started to lose ground against the combined attacks of all of them, but still manage to kill the Thunderbird and many witnesses said the black dragon left Newton Scamander willingly.
And as everyone thought Grindelwald was about to get caught a mysterious beautiful red-haired woman with a black mask on her face come to give backup to Grindelwald.
Who is the red-haired woman?
Well, I don't know that answer, but what I do know for sure is that the true Dark Lord is Gellert Grindelwald, and not, you know who.
-Rita Skeeter
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The more Fudge read the article the angrier he got.
Fudge got closer to the woman in pink and whispered: "Did you find something with the parents of the girl?"
The woman in pink shook her head, with an apologetic face while whispering and looking at Hermione "Maybe we could use Legilimens on the girl"
"Put some Aurors to follow her and her parents too and..." Fudge furrowed his brows as he heard that and as he was about to order to proceed. The doors of the office opened again but this time was Dumbledore who walked in followed by a goblin who had an angry face.
"Albus, how is your health?" said Fudge as he saw Dumbledore still had no hand.
"I'm fine Cornelius, with Madame Pomfrey cares I will be back in no time, but we have things to talk in private" said Dumbledore as he turned his head to look at the girl who was sending him nervous looks at him, he smiled at her with his grandfather smiled while saying "Child, don't worry, everything is fine, you don't have to come back here, hope to see you again at Hogwarts"
Hermione just nodded at him as she stood up and followed the woman in pink who signaled to follow her.
"Mrs Umbridge, please take care of her, I will certainly like to talk with her in Hogwarts" said Dumbledore while giving her a look while smiling with his emblematic grandpa smile.
Umbridge nodded with a stiff smile as he took Hermione out of the office leaving Fudge, Dumbledore and that goblin standing there.
"Sigh, take a seat please gentleman, what can I do for you?" said Fudge with a tired face
They all took a seat, and Dumbledore said with a serious face "Gringotts was robbed.." as he was about to explain more the Goblin started to scream "We got robbed, this has never happened before, we don't even know how the robber evaded all of our measures... We need help to solve this theft, Minister"
"What Gringotts got robbed, when? why didn't anybody notified me about this?, what did they steal?" said Fudge with a paled face as he started to sweat as he thought about the statement he will have to give to the news... And once the sacred 28 find out his head might roll out...
"Sigh Cornelius... Gellert was a distraction and he was a good one..."
"With all the destruction in Diagon Alley, the battle as you know was out of proportions and the damages to Diagon Alley were enormous, the Bank got destroyed in the process at least the surface... We didn't pay attention at certain alarms because we thought it was a malfunction caused by the destruction of the wards or runes of the bank... They took advantage of it and empty our deepest vault the 999 vault... as you know that's where we kept all of the most important things... all of the eggs section... Included the semi leveled 6..." said the Goblin with a pained face, as he was reliving the nightmare when he found the bank was robbed and none noticed it...
"We have been played by someone... And I believe Grindelwald is working for someone now... Cornelius, we have to tread carefully now... They also tried to rob the philosopher stone that my friend Nicholas entrusted me, lucky me I took out the stone before or someone would rob it" said Dumbledore with a tired face.
The more Fudge heard about the topic the more paled he got... He started to grab his head as he started to breathe deeply
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Two days later somewhere in Hungary in a vast empty grassland, there is a boy with silver hair and silver matching eyes accompanied by two beautiful women, and a handsome man with white hair and with two different eyes colors.
The boy roared as he amplified his voice, so every living being there could hear him and come to them.
A second later a black onyx dragon came flying while roaring, it descended in front of Stefan while roaring at him and bowing to him, a curiosity gleam flashed in its eyes with a spark of respect.
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The magical world has entered into a state of chaos since Grindelwald made his comeback to the magical world in Diagon Alley, a few days later of that legendary duel, strange things started to happen all over the globe, there were reports of dragons disappearing mysteriously leaving no trace of their habitats as if someone was gathering, and make them vanishing them in thin air.
Inside of a certain castle, in the main principal office, there are two old men talking with serious faces while sitting on a couch.
"Albus the missing dragons that are disappearing all over the world are related to Grindelwald, he conspired with someone to steal Gringotts and successfully did it... Sigh you should have sent him to Azkaban, you favored him a lot Albus, why did you send him to his own prison with no one to guard him" said the old man who had a suitcase beside him while looking at Dumbledore with a tired face.
"Sigh, you already know Gellert has always been proficient in the more Obscures Dark Arts... He would have seduced the dementors to join his cause with incentives... I need your help Newt... Hogwarts needs you... the students need you... I'm old and lost once to Gellert, he is back in his prime time and will try to attack this place...You can be a guest teacher Newt" said Dumbledore while looking with a tired face at Newton who was hesitating...
"Sigh, Ok I will help you guard Hogwarts against Grindelwald... but I will not be staying there, you will have to allow me to apparate to Hogwarts, change the wards restrictions and if you ever need me use these." said Newton as he took out a piece of paper and gave it to Dumbledore as he stood up from the couch.
"I will only come if Grindelwald is attacking... as for the Riddle boy, you should handle him alone." said Newton with a calm face as he looked at Dumbledore who nodded at him, and started to wave his wand while writing runes in mid-air, after a moment all of the runes entered the body of Newton.
"See you later Albus" said Newton as he apparated away from there.
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1 September 1991, King's Cross Station.
There's a handsome boy with silver hair and silver matching eyes pushing a cart and beside him is a cute red-haired girl with green eyes that is also pushing a cart, while looking with curiosity at the Station, they were walking calmly till they got to Platforms Nine and Ten and looking how from time to time families walking directly to the apparently solid barrier dividing Platforms Nine and Ten, and disappearing as they hit the barrier.
"Huh, let's go, Mary, this is going to be interesting..."
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Published more than 100000 words, I just got this milestone while posting this chapter. LOL, just as we got to the Hogwarts arc.