Chapter Two: The Greater Good

Gellert didn't understand why this was happening to him. Truly he didn't care that he had been kicked out of his school, he didn't even care that his parents had sent him away. What he did care about was why he was being sent to some strangers house when he could be spending his time elsewhere, like in his bed asleep. He sighed as he walked up the steps and knocked on the door of the Dumbledore's. Tapping his foot impatiently he waited for someone to grant him access into the house. With any luck whoever lives here will allow him to sleep on their couch or something of the sort.

Finally, just as Gellert was about to lose patience and blow off the house all together, a young man opened the door.

"Hello?"

The young boy asked,

"Ugh, my Aunt Bathilda set it up for me to spend my day here"

"Oh, right. Albus! The charity case is here!"

Gellert's eye twitched and he fought back the urge to hex the boy into oblivion. How dare he call him, the Great Gellert, or at least that's what he called himself, a charity case? The thought was banished from his mind once he heard the thumping sounds of footsteps approach.

"Oh, Gellert, right, um, come on in"

Gellert entered and looked around the house. Honestly, it looked terrible. Cobwebs were everywhere, the place was crawling with dust and what's worse is that there were animal 'droppings' on the ground. Gellert hoped with every fiber of his being that he would not have to be the one to clean this place up.

Meanwhile Albus had walked the opposite direction of Gellert. Albus shrugged on his jacket and began to walk out the house. Albus has two siblings to take care of, he can't let this boy make idle of his much needed time,

"Gellert, I have work and I hope that you leave my family at peace while you're here"

Gellert nodded and makes his way to the couch for a nice long nap.

When Gellert awoke the sun had already set and all was quiet. Suddenly he heard a scuffling in the room adjacent to the one he was in,

"Oh, Gellert, you're finally awake"

It was Albus, he was holding a glass of water and it was all too apparent that he himself had just returned home only a few short minutes ago. Several moments of silence passed and neither knew what to say to one another,

"Why does your aunt want me to set you straight?"

Albus was the one to first talk; this question had been bothering him all day.

"'Cuz I was kicked out of Durmstrang"

By now Gellert was sitting up straight and Albus took a seat next to him on the couch.

"How come you were expelled?"

Gellert grimaces and rubs the back of his neck nervously,

"I was doing some experiments and almost killed a couple classmates"

Gellert expected Albus to flinch, shrink away, have some sort of reaction but all he did was ask another question,

"What type of experiments?"

"I was trying to find the Deathly Hollows"

This made Albus raise his eyebrows in surprise,

"The myth?"

Gellert nodded.

Hours pass as the two begin their newfound subject in which they have in common. They both believed in the legend of the Hollows and wished to be the masters of all three objects. Soon they began to laugh and make jokes about what they would do if they did have the Hollows.

"I'd enslave those pompous Muggles"

After a moment of silence Albus nodded in agreement.

"You agree?"

"When my sister, Ariana, was six she was attacked by a couple of Muggle boys, just because they saw her do some magic. They deserve it."

"One thing that vaguely seems impossible to them they freak out and become hostile. We're the superior race, why should we have to live in secrecy?"

"They're a bunch of menaces, someone should wipe them out"

"Someone like us"

"Yeah, we're strong enough, especially if we find the Hollows. Besides, if anyone did try to stop us then…"

"Then we would dispose of them like the rest of the Muggles because it be for the Wizarding communities better interest…"

"…It'd be for the Greater Good"

A/N: Hello! It's finally Winter Break and I found some time to update the story. Sorry if the grammar goes a little fuzzy in some places. I can't remember if I was using past tense or present so I think I changed it every now and then. Again I apologize for that but as always I hope you enjoyed,

Love,

Pastry~