The street square at the foot of the New Avalon Collegium Library was completely deserted except for the four of them and the Greek-Roman building loomed over Grindelwald as he smiled on it's steps looking down on them as they looked up. Philip Ashland had transformed into a fairly intimidating figure Harry had to admit and it wasn't a good thing to suddenly have a friend…even if a new one, now some six feet in height, Axis uniform with dark sigils adorning, serpentine golden eyes glaring at you. Harry toughed his resolve as he gripped his wand and Fawkes flew around him in a circle, flapping his wings. The sounds of cries and magic blasting behind made Harry sure that whatever this thing was it had to be stopped.
"Ah yes the Phoenix Fawkes, I remember the little blighter well." Octavian Grindelwald smiled staring at the creature as it cawed forward.
A heavy downpour began to soak Harry as he looked to his side and saw Hermione staring at the man with a bit of detached look on her face as if she weren't fully taking in what she saw, then Harry saw the tears through the rain. Ron had his own wand gripped and aside from the torn nature of his shirt and his heavy breathing looked nothing but determined for the encounter with the evil parseltongue.
'If Voldemort, Slytherin, Grindelwald are the only humans who can talk about snakes other than himself and that Doctor Pythonis guy, it's no wonder snakes have a bad reputation.' Harry thought momentarily whimsically and hoping Moody and his Aurors could get here in time to keep them from killing themselves. Lady Morgana had disappeared not very long after they'd spotted Grindelwald and he personally REALLY hoped she hadn't just left them to handle this.
"I must admit scanning dear Philip's memories that I've actually come to admire the three of you. From what little the dear boy knows and what I picked up from the many many people who've touched me since poor Atrus floated through my storage room and re-filled me, you are quite the impressive trio. I suspect….yes…yes…you would make good additions to the New Order. I suspect at least one of you have the potential to learn the army, cast down your wands and swear allegiance to the reborn Wotan's Eye. You will be the first disciples of the Messiah that shall sweep the world clean of the disease it has become stricken with and will inherit entire continents to serve as your playgrounds amidst the races that inhabit them." Grindelwald said in a slightly glazed voice as if he was half in the middle of divination while he talked or as Harry more to the point suspected, he was completely out of his mind.
"Umm…" Harry pointed his wand not knowing how to respond to the statement, he had no intention of joining a man whose stated recruitment speech included genocide and enslavement of entire races but he was wondering if it might be best to distract him.
Grindelwald breathed in the icy air and breathed out, the air now so cold around them that it showed as steam. "Ah yes your morals constrain you, I understand, you do not wish to harm the ignorant mass of Muggles….and your so called brethren. I understand I too once loved and love to their whims…I too once felt sympathy for them."
He pointed his wand at Harry and said.
"MEMORIUS!"
***
1913
Austria, Grindelwald Castle
The last of the soldiery fired futilely his rifle at Octavian Grindelwald's head as the bullet exploded against the shield of Aegis that he had conjured around his body. Lifting his wand with a slight tremble Octavian breathed out the curse, which caused the man to clutch at his throat and fall to the ground dead where he stood.
"MORTE!" Octavian blinked as he looked at the squadron of dead men that lied around him unmoving with the magic he had conjured against them slaying them all in less than a minute. The wizard was numb indeed with the feeling he had inside him, they had all died so easily. Stepping over them lightly he recognized them to be members of the nearest town's guard, the village had long produced men who had hated the Grindelwalds for their frequent "visits" which were excuses for carrying off young women, cruel pranks, and outright extortion of goods to feed the family which refused to invest it's wealth. Octavian had hoped that time and his discoveries would replace his family name's infamy with tolerance and even like someday for he had never done any of the things his father or elder brother had done before the formers' evil had finally crushed his body in old age and the later perishing in a duel with Octavian himself.
"H…How…did you get through the forests, who showed you the way." Octavian shook his head leaning back, the wand still burning from the Prime magic he had used to power it. He almost expected at his command that they would rise up and tell them, Octavian had tried to use it to raise the dead once and it had gotten him fired from his job teaching Defense against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts and the abomination had been destroyed. He had fled the country to avoid charges being brought against him. It had once disgusted the Ministry in Austria refused to prosecute anything a Grindelwald did, now he grateful.
"Never…never…" he breathed as he felt a presence behind him.
"I led them Octavian." Helga spoke and Octavian turned around to look at her, the woman with long brown hair had been a bookish female he had met traveling the lengths of the estate, which were not so covered in darkness. She had known he was a wizard but she had still allowed him to court her and had married him. He had hoped they would have children.
"Why?" Grindelwald simply asked.
"Because you are a monster. You have always been a monster. From the moment I laid eyes on you I recognized you for the thing you were. A magician a creature of the Adversary and all his dark hosts…." She spat the words as Grindelwald shook his head "I only married you because I was the same tribute that my people had paid your family for years. My only regret is that my people…my own brother failed to kill you." She looked down at a face Grindelwald recognized from his visits to the family and looked up long enough for her to spit in his face and launch herself at him.
"CARDIAC TEAR!" Grindelwald pointed as he dropped his wand in horror and felt his wife's limp form fall across his body and he screamed.
***
Harry fell to the ground clutching his chest at the horror of the memory as it overwhelmed him every shocking detail from the way it felt to the mindset of the man who killed his wife and so many. His glasses fell into a puddle nearby as everything became blurry, nearby Hermione fell backwards as well along with Ron.
"YOU MONSTER!" Hermione screamed at Grindelwald who was just feeling his wand nonchalantly.
"I've been called worse. It has such an interesting ring to it, such memories my child. Life is a continual learning process; that night I learned to hate Muggles for the smelly, ignorant, stupid apes that they were and come to realize that I was justified in doing what my ancestors could only dream of…wiping them out."
"NO!" Harry lifted up his wand and began shouting for an entangling hex before Grindelwald lifted his hand and all the magical energy flowed away. Ron's transfiguration spell to turn Grindelwald into a rat was similarly reflected into the walls for an explosian as Hermione was cut off by Grindelwald's next words.
"It appears that you will unfortunately have to be one of the cleansed. ENERVATIUS ELECTRICUS!" Octavian lifted up his wand and black lightning ripped out in hundreds of tiny bolts which ripped across Harry, Ron, and Hermione's flesh like nails on a blackboard.
"GET OUT OF PHILIP YOU PIECE OF AHHHH…" Hermione screamed as Grindelwald stopped his barrage leaving Harry to ache and grab his wand foreward. Grindelwald's wand was shaking though whether with madness or guilt or rage harry couldn't tell.
Harry then saw Cho come streaking on her Comet towards Grindelwald as harry blinked remembering their plan to flank him, he tried to call a warning but Grindelwald merely pointed his wand and her broom shattered at his hex on it.
"AHHHH!" Cho fell beside Harry.
"Do you think I am a charlatan? Do you think my magic is mere parlor tricks that I conjure up for the amusement of those around? That I am nothing more than a infant making his first cantrips? I AM THE WIELDER OF THE CHAOS MAGIC!" he screamed with a laugh. "You are children! Nothing!"
Harry then jumped up and ran square into Octavian's chest as he tackled him in probably the stupidest move he'd ever tried in his life. "We'll see what your magic does against this!" Harry shouted lifting up his fist as he found himself sailing into the air, ten feet, twenty feet, thirty, one hundred, two hundred, five hundred….
"Oh God…" Harry said blinking as he looked around himself and began to see everything on the ground begin to get closer again.
***
"HARRY!" Cho and Ron shouted simultaneously as Grindelwald chuckled, the evil old wizard had literally sent Harry sent Harry blasting up like a rocket ship with a simple levitation charm, only about a thousand times more powerful than the normal variety.
"Oh that was one I didn't expect I must admit." Grindelwald continued to laugh. "I almost hate to imagine what will happen to the dear boy when he hits the ground at the speed he'll be hitting. I rather imagine he'll look like a can of tomato paste crushed under a large rock."
Ron shouted "PYROS INFERNUS!" at Grindelwald before the fire spun around Grindelwald in a circle harmlessly.
"You did say your name was Wealsey didn't you? Hmmmm what an interesting idea…." Grindelwald said as a gigantic stone fist lifted up from the ground where Grindelwald pointed, the archwizard not even having to say any magical words as it grabbed Cho in a prison.
"You'll have to kill me first." Hermione said getting up and blinking as she tried to think of whatever killing and lethal curses she knew, she thought of the Avada Krevada but the idea disgusted her and made her think she'd be better than this thing herself, also it would hurting the man whose face Grindelwald wore….even if he was dead.
"What a delightful idea." Grindelwald spoke lifting up his wand as Ron doubled over in pain, already his hands starting to get hairy, the Dark Lord delaying his transfiguration and drawing it to be as painful and horrific as possible. Hermione stared at the unicorn horn wand, which already had left Grindelwald's hand a burning scabbed mess from it's rebellion against his evil magic. No words came to Hermione's lips as she closed her eyes and knew he was going to kill her….but didn't.
"AHHHHH!" Grindelwald screamed as Hermione blinked and looked down to see the wizard tossing his wand away from his body as he held fast to his head.
"OBEY YOU FOOL! I PROMISED YOU EVERYTHING! YOU ARE MINE AND ALWAYS WILL BE! LET ME DESTROY THE GIRL!" Grindelwald screamed as his eyes flicked between serpentine and surreal and Philip's blue.
"This is my…Arghh…GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" a much less accented and sane voice screamed from the body as well. "I won't kill anyone!"
"But you have! OBEY…GAH!" Grindelwald screamed as his book was torn from his grasp by a figure that Hermione recognized with a scream of delight.
"HARRY!" she cried, seeing the warlock riding his Firebolt as the witch realized with delight what had occurred, Harry had used his summoning charm in mid air!
"GIVE ME THAT BACK!" Grindelwald screeched at Harry on his knees before he started falling onto the ground and wretching, a hideous green glowing gaseous serpent with electrical sparks forming eyes and bones visible inside it as it crawled from the host's mouth.
"Dangit I was going for his wand." Harry said tossing the book away as he jumped off his firebolt and watched the hideous display once he grabbed at his glasses.
Hermione was revolted as the serpent began to rise on it's tip to a full height of six feet, a black cloak seeming to morph around it as it began to resemble the Grim Reaper and speak with an inhuman tone. Philip collapsed and Hermione could only breathe harder.
"BAH! I should have known you would make an unsuitable host body the moment I laid eyes on your clumsy Muggle born form!" Grindelwald screamed as he looked at them "No matter, I have transcended mere flesh as wizards have longed to do long since they first began to rise above it when magic was discovered. With your life energy I will be uns…AHHHH!" the echoing voice of the Dark Lord was cut off with Ron taking time during the rant to fire a beam of concentrated solar light into it's chest which surprising sent it trailing backwards.
"What? Impossible!" the Serpent-Shadow cried beneath it's robe as it's shadowy sleeves lifted up and Harry thought he saw a trace of fear in it's eyes. Then Harry realized what a desperate man does….
"ARCANA ZEUSIAN THUNDER!" and a lightning bolt struck at them before Harry saw a body trail backwards and a flash of white light, Philip had apparently jumped in front of his friend and his chest.
"The book harry." A voice echoed in the wind.
***
Nearby
Albus Dumbledore's cottage
Albus Dumbledore lifted his hands outward from his bed down to the Lady Morgana and his brother Atrus, the three wizards joined together in a chalk triangle whose point was focused by the positioning of the headmaster's bed. Inbetween the three of them as they chanted the ritual to weaken the Evil One they saw a glowing image of the battle going on between their youthful champions and the should be long dead spirit who refused to follow nature's course and die.
"Harry the Book." Albus whispered keeping his eyes tightly shut as Morgana tossed golden powder over her head and Atrus looked down into the mass of energy while he intoned the words, which began to remove the Dark Lord's ability to redirect magical energy.
The magical spell was potent and Albus only prayed that weakened old wizards and witch that they were they could channel enough of Grindelwald's power away that he could be laid to rest by Harry and the rest, if not they would likely die and it would be for nothing.
***
Harry grabbed at the Book, which was completely blank as far as he could tell but extremely large, though it hadn't been such a size before when Harry had grabbed it. Obviously whatever magic Grindelwald had used to keep him alive in that book all these years, presuming it was the same crazy stuff that had made him the six-foot tall demon he saw lifting his fingers to blast him the chest, had altered it from normal book magic.
'Why does it always have to be books? I'm feeling a little bad about destroying so many evil tomes.' Harry thought remembering jabbing the basilisk's tooth into Tom Riddle's diary and killing Lord Voldemort for the second time. He hoped it would have a similar effect but didn't have time to debate about it as he opened up the book and jumped beside it, the tome already his size as Grindelwald released another blast of lighting that blasted into his pages. Harry unfortunately overestimated the strength of the book and as it was blown to pieces was sent into a tumble by the force and knocked unconscious.
Ron lifted up his wand one last time along with Hermione and pointed the shade of Octavian Grindelwald who was just looking with stunned shock at the shredded pages of his Book of Chaos.
"Impossible…it's indestructible." The serpent man said as large shadowy wings emerged out his side but was cut off by a bolt of lightning and a stinging blast of cold, which disintegrated him into less than nothing in an instant.
After fifty years of waiting for rebirth, Grindelwald was dead.
"Ah yes the Phoenix Fawkes, I remember the little blighter well." Octavian Grindelwald smiled staring at the creature as it cawed forward.
A heavy downpour began to soak Harry as he looked to his side and saw Hermione staring at the man with a bit of detached look on her face as if she weren't fully taking in what she saw, then Harry saw the tears through the rain. Ron had his own wand gripped and aside from the torn nature of his shirt and his heavy breathing looked nothing but determined for the encounter with the evil parseltongue.
'If Voldemort, Slytherin, Grindelwald are the only humans who can talk about snakes other than himself and that Doctor Pythonis guy, it's no wonder snakes have a bad reputation.' Harry thought momentarily whimsically and hoping Moody and his Aurors could get here in time to keep them from killing themselves. Lady Morgana had disappeared not very long after they'd spotted Grindelwald and he personally REALLY hoped she hadn't just left them to handle this.
"I must admit scanning dear Philip's memories that I've actually come to admire the three of you. From what little the dear boy knows and what I picked up from the many many people who've touched me since poor Atrus floated through my storage room and re-filled me, you are quite the impressive trio. I suspect….yes…yes…you would make good additions to the New Order. I suspect at least one of you have the potential to learn the army, cast down your wands and swear allegiance to the reborn Wotan's Eye. You will be the first disciples of the Messiah that shall sweep the world clean of the disease it has become stricken with and will inherit entire continents to serve as your playgrounds amidst the races that inhabit them." Grindelwald said in a slightly glazed voice as if he was half in the middle of divination while he talked or as Harry more to the point suspected, he was completely out of his mind.
"Umm…" Harry pointed his wand not knowing how to respond to the statement, he had no intention of joining a man whose stated recruitment speech included genocide and enslavement of entire races but he was wondering if it might be best to distract him.
Grindelwald breathed in the icy air and breathed out, the air now so cold around them that it showed as steam. "Ah yes your morals constrain you, I understand, you do not wish to harm the ignorant mass of Muggles….and your so called brethren. I understand I too once loved and love to their whims…I too once felt sympathy for them."
He pointed his wand at Harry and said.
"MEMORIUS!"
***
1913
Austria, Grindelwald Castle
The last of the soldiery fired futilely his rifle at Octavian Grindelwald's head as the bullet exploded against the shield of Aegis that he had conjured around his body. Lifting his wand with a slight tremble Octavian breathed out the curse, which caused the man to clutch at his throat and fall to the ground dead where he stood.
"MORTE!" Octavian blinked as he looked at the squadron of dead men that lied around him unmoving with the magic he had conjured against them slaying them all in less than a minute. The wizard was numb indeed with the feeling he had inside him, they had all died so easily. Stepping over them lightly he recognized them to be members of the nearest town's guard, the village had long produced men who had hated the Grindelwalds for their frequent "visits" which were excuses for carrying off young women, cruel pranks, and outright extortion of goods to feed the family which refused to invest it's wealth. Octavian had hoped that time and his discoveries would replace his family name's infamy with tolerance and even like someday for he had never done any of the things his father or elder brother had done before the formers' evil had finally crushed his body in old age and the later perishing in a duel with Octavian himself.
"H…How…did you get through the forests, who showed you the way." Octavian shook his head leaning back, the wand still burning from the Prime magic he had used to power it. He almost expected at his command that they would rise up and tell them, Octavian had tried to use it to raise the dead once and it had gotten him fired from his job teaching Defense against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts and the abomination had been destroyed. He had fled the country to avoid charges being brought against him. It had once disgusted the Ministry in Austria refused to prosecute anything a Grindelwald did, now he grateful.
"Never…never…" he breathed as he felt a presence behind him.
"I led them Octavian." Helga spoke and Octavian turned around to look at her, the woman with long brown hair had been a bookish female he had met traveling the lengths of the estate, which were not so covered in darkness. She had known he was a wizard but she had still allowed him to court her and had married him. He had hoped they would have children.
"Why?" Grindelwald simply asked.
"Because you are a monster. You have always been a monster. From the moment I laid eyes on you I recognized you for the thing you were. A magician a creature of the Adversary and all his dark hosts…." She spat the words as Grindelwald shook his head "I only married you because I was the same tribute that my people had paid your family for years. My only regret is that my people…my own brother failed to kill you." She looked down at a face Grindelwald recognized from his visits to the family and looked up long enough for her to spit in his face and launch herself at him.
"CARDIAC TEAR!" Grindelwald pointed as he dropped his wand in horror and felt his wife's limp form fall across his body and he screamed.
***
Harry fell to the ground clutching his chest at the horror of the memory as it overwhelmed him every shocking detail from the way it felt to the mindset of the man who killed his wife and so many. His glasses fell into a puddle nearby as everything became blurry, nearby Hermione fell backwards as well along with Ron.
"YOU MONSTER!" Hermione screamed at Grindelwald who was just feeling his wand nonchalantly.
"I've been called worse. It has such an interesting ring to it, such memories my child. Life is a continual learning process; that night I learned to hate Muggles for the smelly, ignorant, stupid apes that they were and come to realize that I was justified in doing what my ancestors could only dream of…wiping them out."
"NO!" Harry lifted up his wand and began shouting for an entangling hex before Grindelwald lifted his hand and all the magical energy flowed away. Ron's transfiguration spell to turn Grindelwald into a rat was similarly reflected into the walls for an explosian as Hermione was cut off by Grindelwald's next words.
"It appears that you will unfortunately have to be one of the cleansed. ENERVATIUS ELECTRICUS!" Octavian lifted up his wand and black lightning ripped out in hundreds of tiny bolts which ripped across Harry, Ron, and Hermione's flesh like nails on a blackboard.
"GET OUT OF PHILIP YOU PIECE OF AHHHH…" Hermione screamed as Grindelwald stopped his barrage leaving Harry to ache and grab his wand foreward. Grindelwald's wand was shaking though whether with madness or guilt or rage harry couldn't tell.
Harry then saw Cho come streaking on her Comet towards Grindelwald as harry blinked remembering their plan to flank him, he tried to call a warning but Grindelwald merely pointed his wand and her broom shattered at his hex on it.
"AHHHH!" Cho fell beside Harry.
"Do you think I am a charlatan? Do you think my magic is mere parlor tricks that I conjure up for the amusement of those around? That I am nothing more than a infant making his first cantrips? I AM THE WIELDER OF THE CHAOS MAGIC!" he screamed with a laugh. "You are children! Nothing!"
Harry then jumped up and ran square into Octavian's chest as he tackled him in probably the stupidest move he'd ever tried in his life. "We'll see what your magic does against this!" Harry shouted lifting up his fist as he found himself sailing into the air, ten feet, twenty feet, thirty, one hundred, two hundred, five hundred….
"Oh God…" Harry said blinking as he looked around himself and began to see everything on the ground begin to get closer again.
***
"HARRY!" Cho and Ron shouted simultaneously as Grindelwald chuckled, the evil old wizard had literally sent Harry sent Harry blasting up like a rocket ship with a simple levitation charm, only about a thousand times more powerful than the normal variety.
"Oh that was one I didn't expect I must admit." Grindelwald continued to laugh. "I almost hate to imagine what will happen to the dear boy when he hits the ground at the speed he'll be hitting. I rather imagine he'll look like a can of tomato paste crushed under a large rock."
Ron shouted "PYROS INFERNUS!" at Grindelwald before the fire spun around Grindelwald in a circle harmlessly.
"You did say your name was Wealsey didn't you? Hmmmm what an interesting idea…." Grindelwald said as a gigantic stone fist lifted up from the ground where Grindelwald pointed, the archwizard not even having to say any magical words as it grabbed Cho in a prison.
"You'll have to kill me first." Hermione said getting up and blinking as she tried to think of whatever killing and lethal curses she knew, she thought of the Avada Krevada but the idea disgusted her and made her think she'd be better than this thing herself, also it would hurting the man whose face Grindelwald wore….even if he was dead.
"What a delightful idea." Grindelwald spoke lifting up his wand as Ron doubled over in pain, already his hands starting to get hairy, the Dark Lord delaying his transfiguration and drawing it to be as painful and horrific as possible. Hermione stared at the unicorn horn wand, which already had left Grindelwald's hand a burning scabbed mess from it's rebellion against his evil magic. No words came to Hermione's lips as she closed her eyes and knew he was going to kill her….but didn't.
"AHHHHH!" Grindelwald screamed as Hermione blinked and looked down to see the wizard tossing his wand away from his body as he held fast to his head.
"OBEY YOU FOOL! I PROMISED YOU EVERYTHING! YOU ARE MINE AND ALWAYS WILL BE! LET ME DESTROY THE GIRL!" Grindelwald screamed as his eyes flicked between serpentine and surreal and Philip's blue.
"This is my…Arghh…GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" a much less accented and sane voice screamed from the body as well. "I won't kill anyone!"
"But you have! OBEY…GAH!" Grindelwald screamed as his book was torn from his grasp by a figure that Hermione recognized with a scream of delight.
"HARRY!" she cried, seeing the warlock riding his Firebolt as the witch realized with delight what had occurred, Harry had used his summoning charm in mid air!
"GIVE ME THAT BACK!" Grindelwald screeched at Harry on his knees before he started falling onto the ground and wretching, a hideous green glowing gaseous serpent with electrical sparks forming eyes and bones visible inside it as it crawled from the host's mouth.
"Dangit I was going for his wand." Harry said tossing the book away as he jumped off his firebolt and watched the hideous display once he grabbed at his glasses.
Hermione was revolted as the serpent began to rise on it's tip to a full height of six feet, a black cloak seeming to morph around it as it began to resemble the Grim Reaper and speak with an inhuman tone. Philip collapsed and Hermione could only breathe harder.
"BAH! I should have known you would make an unsuitable host body the moment I laid eyes on your clumsy Muggle born form!" Grindelwald screamed as he looked at them "No matter, I have transcended mere flesh as wizards have longed to do long since they first began to rise above it when magic was discovered. With your life energy I will be uns…AHHHH!" the echoing voice of the Dark Lord was cut off with Ron taking time during the rant to fire a beam of concentrated solar light into it's chest which surprising sent it trailing backwards.
"What? Impossible!" the Serpent-Shadow cried beneath it's robe as it's shadowy sleeves lifted up and Harry thought he saw a trace of fear in it's eyes. Then Harry realized what a desperate man does….
"ARCANA ZEUSIAN THUNDER!" and a lightning bolt struck at them before Harry saw a body trail backwards and a flash of white light, Philip had apparently jumped in front of his friend and his chest.
"The book harry." A voice echoed in the wind.
***
Nearby
Albus Dumbledore's cottage
Albus Dumbledore lifted his hands outward from his bed down to the Lady Morgana and his brother Atrus, the three wizards joined together in a chalk triangle whose point was focused by the positioning of the headmaster's bed. Inbetween the three of them as they chanted the ritual to weaken the Evil One they saw a glowing image of the battle going on between their youthful champions and the should be long dead spirit who refused to follow nature's course and die.
"Harry the Book." Albus whispered keeping his eyes tightly shut as Morgana tossed golden powder over her head and Atrus looked down into the mass of energy while he intoned the words, which began to remove the Dark Lord's ability to redirect magical energy.
The magical spell was potent and Albus only prayed that weakened old wizards and witch that they were they could channel enough of Grindelwald's power away that he could be laid to rest by Harry and the rest, if not they would likely die and it would be for nothing.
***
Harry grabbed at the Book, which was completely blank as far as he could tell but extremely large, though it hadn't been such a size before when Harry had grabbed it. Obviously whatever magic Grindelwald had used to keep him alive in that book all these years, presuming it was the same crazy stuff that had made him the six-foot tall demon he saw lifting his fingers to blast him the chest, had altered it from normal book magic.
'Why does it always have to be books? I'm feeling a little bad about destroying so many evil tomes.' Harry thought remembering jabbing the basilisk's tooth into Tom Riddle's diary and killing Lord Voldemort for the second time. He hoped it would have a similar effect but didn't have time to debate about it as he opened up the book and jumped beside it, the tome already his size as Grindelwald released another blast of lighting that blasted into his pages. Harry unfortunately overestimated the strength of the book and as it was blown to pieces was sent into a tumble by the force and knocked unconscious.
Ron lifted up his wand one last time along with Hermione and pointed the shade of Octavian Grindelwald who was just looking with stunned shock at the shredded pages of his Book of Chaos.
"Impossible…it's indestructible." The serpent man said as large shadowy wings emerged out his side but was cut off by a bolt of lightning and a stinging blast of cold, which disintegrated him into less than nothing in an instant.
After fifty years of waiting for rebirth, Grindelwald was dead.