章 59: Global Wizarding War

The transfiguration class ended with Slytherin winning a considerable good amount of points to the dislike of the Gryffindors, as the only one who could more less change her piece of paper to a piece of cloth was Hermione, while Stefan and Mary this time didn't changed their piece of paper but help Daphne and Tracey with some tips, Mary did that as Stefan just focused in healing, except for the times when Hermione asked him for tips as Daphne and Tracey succeeded first than her, and her competitive side make her ask for tips to Stefan.

As Stefan and Mary were walking out of the class with all of the girls behind them, they heard the voice of Ron Weasley coming from behind. "What happened to the two genius of Slytherin couldn't even change the color of your papers"

Stefan just kept walking as he ignored him, and Mary just looked at him for a moment and took her wand and waved it, and kept walking with a smile on her face, while Daphne and Tracey started laughing out loud, with tears in their eyes, but noticed Stefan and Mary were leaving so they chase after them while laughing.

While all of the boys and girls that were coming out of the classroom saw Ron Weasley wearing a pink nightdress, they started laughing while they were pointing at him, and Ron started turning red from shame.

"Ron what happened, why are you dressing that..." said Harry as he looked at him with a surprised face as he tried hard not to laugh.

Hermione walked out of the classroom and saw that everyone was laughing at someone, and saw that Ron was wearing a pink dress and couldn't help but laugh, Ron was so ashamed that as he saw the excluded Hermione laughing at him, he snapped and shouted at Hermione "This is what your Slytherin friends did to me, you don't belong to Gryffindor you should change of house"

Hermione stopped laughing and said with a serious face "You probably provoked Stefan or Mary... I bet it was Mary as Stefan would do something more than changing your clothes, you should stop provoking them, and maybe you are right and I don't belong to this house..." said Hermione as she turned around and started walking to the next class, leaving Ron with a purple face there standing while all of the Gryffindors looked at the back of Hermione with complicated expressions as they know without her they wouldn't have so points at all, at least not from the first years, maybe from Neville as he is very gifted at Herbology but she has stopped her bossy attitude and was not as bad as they thought to be.

After all of the day ended, Stefan and Mary were in his bedroom, Emma apparated, and bowed to Stefan, he waved his hand to indicate her to stop.

"Sit down on the bed, I will be in the middle, Mary at my right and Emma at my left" said Stefan as he waved his hand to both of them who nodded and proceeded to do what Stefan told them.

"Ok, you will just sit down there and like the time you almost explode from the boost you will focus on assimilating the boost, I will help you so you don't have problems as that time" said Stefan as he took from his chest 100 white souls from his chest that started floating around the bedroom.

Mary and Emma saw the beautiful white balls that were floating and nodded at Stefan to indicate him to start.

"Ok, let's do this" said Stefan as he started pushing quickly soul after soul inside of the body of Mary and Emma, who started sweating and started breathing quickly while black smoke started to leak out of their bodies involuntarily.

Stefan finished distributing 50-50 and put a hand on the back of Mary and Emma as he started infusing them with his essence, they started to breathe normally and their faces relaxed.

After sometime later, Stefan took another 100 souls and started with the procedure again and so a cycle started.

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Meanwhile in the Ministry of Magic.

Inside of the office of Minister, Cornelius Fudge is talking with a woman that is wearing all pink clothes.

"All of them in Europe are gone, what am I going to tell to the magizoologists enthusiasts, Newton Scamander is furious" said Fudge with a tired face as he started rubbing his glabella.

"I'm telling you, Minister, let me go to Azkaban and talk with those Death Eaters, what a coincidence the day of the Duel, they just lost two people while our people that were sent were almost exterminated... They should have performed a play for us, making us think that the conflict between them was real, but the only thing they wanted was to robe Gringotts..., they must know something about other things about him" said the woman with a high pitched voice as she smiled reassuringly at Fudge.

"If Dumbledore finds out I will have more problems in my way... And he is the only one who can fight Grindelwald..." said Fudge with a hesitating voice.

"Mr. Minister, Dumbledore is a relic, he already lost to Grindelwald, and even when he fought Grindelwald with numerical advantage he couldn't do anything but let our men die... While those Death Eaters are well and alive in Azkaban... We just have to let the Dementors question the Death Eaters... I will find the answers you need Mr. Minister, please" said the woman as she kept insisting him, drilling the idea on the head of Fudge to do the things her way.

"Mrs. Umbridge, go and let no one know about this if necessary let the Dementors give them a kiss... I want the information" said Fudge with a gleam of determinación in his eyes.

"I will bring back answers, don't worry Mr. Minister" said Umbridge as she bowed to him for a moment, walked near to the chimney took a green powder that was in a ceramic pot and threw it to the chimney while saying "Magical Ministry Code: XXXXX

Red Flames appeared inside of the chimney that after a second change into green ones, Umbridge took a step inside of the Green Flames and disappeared from there.

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One day after the incident of the Nurmengard Castle, Stefan was in his way to the class of Professor Binns, History of Magic, with Mary and the other girls.

"Oh my God, I hate this class... Binns makes me want to sleep... Mary would you borrow me your tablet pleaseeeee?" said Daphne with puppy eyes to Mary who was walking at the right side of Stefan with dark circles on her eyes.

"Yeah, I will probably sleep at his class I'll give it to you at class" said Mary with a tired voice.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, you're the best, not like Stefan who doesn't let anyone touch his tablet" said Daphne while sticking her tongue out to Stefan, who just ignored her and kept walking.

They finally get to the classroom of Magical History, they entered and as quickly took the seats that were at the back of the classroom where the students could sleep without Binns noticing it, the seats that everybody wanted and students always get earlier to class to take those seats.

They took their seats and saw Hermione enter the class and took a seat to the left side of Stefan which was the place she is always taking, while Mary was at his right side and to the right of Mary was Daphne and Tracey.

"Hello, Stefan, Mary, Daphne, Tracey, have you done the homework of Binns?, it took me ages to find the information" said Hermione to all of them, while Stefan just nodded at her and Mary who was too sleepy to reply to her just waved her hand at her as she leaned her head on the desk and closed her eyes, Daphne and Tracey nodded at her and started listening to music on the tablet of Mary.

"Why is Mary so tired, these days she is always sleeping in the middle of class" said Hermione as she looked at Mary who fell asleep as soon as she touched the desk.

"She will be ok, she just needs to sleep" said Stefan with a calm voice, as he looked at her from the slits of the silver mask that he was wearing as have been focusing in regenerate his left arm till now.

"And what about you? you have been with that silver makes for ages... Was it that bad, the spell rebound?" said Hermione with curiosity in her eyes as she tried to peek on him but couldn't see past the silver mask.

"I'll be fine, I just need time to heal, Madame Pomfrey said that as it was a rebounding spell it changed the essence of the spell making it a new one that it's hard to cure quickly" said Stefan as he took his silver tablet and started playing candy crush on it, with Hermione watching at the game by his side.

"Ok ok, silence, the class of the day will be of the Magical World War" said Professor Binns with his monotone voice.

But this time many students paid attention to his words and started watching at Binns with fervent expressions.

"I have finally grabbed the attention of the students" thought Binns as he cleared his throat and said "Who knows how the Global wizarding war started?"

Many students kept quiet as they didn't remember for the exception of Hermione who had a lost look in her eyes and a second later she raised her hand.

"Mrs. Granger, please" said Binns with his monotone voice, indicating her to talk with his pearl-transparent hand.

"In 1927, 12 years prior the war's start, Gellert Grindelwald revealed a vision of the future Second World War, specifically the Blitzkrieg, the Holocaust, and the United States' deployment of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to his followers as a demonstration of Muggle violence left unchecked by wizard's "guidance", and the growing threat of their weapons and technology."

"Eventually, the Second World War began just as Gellert Grindelwald foretold. Around this time, he declared open war upon all the earth..." said Hermione with a lost look in her eyes.

"Yes, Mrs. Granger, but you just talk about the incident superficially, 10 points for Gryffindor for that nice summary, now let's start..." said Binns as he cleared his throat again and as he was about to start talking many students started lifting their hands up in the air.

"Ok, one by one, what's your question ?" said Prof. Binns to Seamus Finnigan who had a curious face.

"Who is more powerful Geller Grindelwald or You-know-who?" said Seamus while looking with attention to Prof. Binn who didn't expect that question and started coughing.

"That does not have anything to do with our class, now, you what's your question?" said Binns to Paravati Patil who had her hand in the air.

"Geller Grindelwald is obviously more powerful right ?, I mean he's back and in full power as the Daily Prophet said, he even had another new and better Legendary Duel with the Headmaster Albus Dumbledore or so they state right Prof. Binns?" said Parvati Patil as she looked with a sneer on her face to the left side of the classroom where the Slytherins were seated.

The Slytherin first years like Malfoy, Zabini, and Pansy Parkinson, lifted their hands into the air wanting to answer back.

"Maybe this was not a good idea..." thought Prof. Binns with white-transparent pearls of sweat dripping from her phantasmal forehead as he heard Draco Malfoy answering to Parvati Patil

"What are you talking about, all the wizards know Dumbledore didn't want to fight to You-know-Who for fear" said Draco with a mocking smile on his face.

"But everyone knows that You-Know-Who was defeated by Harry when he was a baby, how powerful could he actually be just to be defeated by a baby, no offense Harry" said Ron Weasley as he pointed at Harry who didn't know what to say.

Stefan watched with an amused face as the first years started fighting verbally about who was better Dark Lord, Grindelwald or Voldemort.

"Blockheads..." thought Stefan as he heard the voice from Hermione coming from his left side "Who do you think its better Stefan?"

"There's no comparison point between both of them, you could say Grindelwald wanted a better world for the wizards using ruthless methods and Voldemort just killed for pleasure, one wanted to change the magical world for better or so I think, and the other was just a crazy wizard who wanted to rule Britain" said Stefan with a calm voice that everyone heard as they kept quiet at the moment Stefan talked as they know he was the first year Slytherin Boss, even Malfoy and the others who had an ugly face as they heard Stefan saying that about You-Know-Who kept quiet.

"Prof. Binns can you tell them the profile the Magic Ministry has from Grindelwald and how he wanted to change the magical world, initiating the Global Wizarding War " said Stefan with a calm face as he looked at Binns who didn't know how to change the topic back to class, and said with thankful eyes "Yes, of course back to the topic and the origin of it, Grindelwald was a complex figure, highly idealistic and talented, dedicated to achieve his ends at any cost. A revolutionary operating outside the law, he and his followers committed numerous crimes, including several murders. With violent acts in both the United States and Europe, Grindelwald ultimately established a power base at Nurmengard Castle in Austria. In 1945, at the height of Grindelwald's power, Dumbledore confronted and defeated him in a legendary duel" Prof. Binns saw that for the first time in many years he had the attention of the students so he bit the bullet and started recounting the origin of the Global Wizarding War.

"Many historians said that what Grindelwald did was for the better cause, ironically his motto was "Für das Größere Wohl, that means For The Greater Good", he wanted that wizards and muggles lived in the same world with no separations between both of them, and many wizards believed that it was for the best, but leaving that for now, lets start with the main topic..." and so Binns started talking enthusiastically for the first time in years to the students who had all of their attention in him.

"Stefan what do you think about Grindelwald?" whispered Hermione to Stefan who was listening to music.

"Its the best wizard the wizarding world has seen, even if he's cataloged as a Dark Lord, don't you think it would be better for the wizards and muggle to live in the same world with no separation between them?" said Stefan as he looked at Hermione who had a complicated expression on her face.

"I would change the wizarding world like him but this time for real..."