Chapter 428
Waiting for You to Become a Companion
Chapter 428 Waiting for You to Become a Companion
Seeing that Grindelwald seemed to be unable to recover for a while, Wade glanced towards the door involuntarily.
No one comes in.
Turnaround... Turnaround...
Is the turning point now?
How about taking this opportunity to just Apparate away?
In Grindelwald's current state, there was no way he could suddenly interfere with his magic.
Vader drew out his wand, shook it decisively, and then his face immediately darkened.
The air was like a solid mass, and every time I turned around I felt a strong sense of restraint.
Seeing this, Grindelwald laughed hoarsely even though he was still coughing.
Vader: “……!”
He gritted his teeth, and the hand holding the wand was ready to move.
At this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Delain, with a cold and bloody smell, strode in. He glanced at Wade, and then came to Grindelwald without hesitation.
"gentlemen!"
Delain half-knelt down, quickly took out a bottle of pale golden potion, and helped Grindelwald drink it.
Grindelwald's condition quickly stabilized, and when he put down his hand, a hint of blood appeared on his palm.
Delane bent over and handed over a handkerchief.
I don’t know why, but even so, Grindelwald was still laughing, and his body was shaking with laughter.
Delain looked at him worriedly, then glared at Vader again, his eyes angry but not hostile.
"Günter..." Grindelwald finally stopped laughing and asked in a low voice, "Has he been caught?"
Delain quickly turned around and said, "Yes, sir."
"Bring it here," said Grindelwald.
"Yes, sir."
Delane lowered his head, stood up, took two steps back, and walked out of the room. When he passed by Wade, he suddenly whispered, "Lord Grindelwald is in poor health and should not be too excited. Be careful when you speak and don't make inappropriate jokes with him!"
Vader caught his eye and belatedly realized that Draine seemed to think he had told Grindelwald a shocking joke that nearly killed their leader.
Vader was speechless. Faced with this terrible misunderstanding, he didn't know how to refute it.
Delain didn't want to hear his answer, so he turned around and left in a hurry.
At this moment, Wade became aware of a gaze. He slowly turned around and saw Grindelwald looking at him with a creepy look.
"Ved Grey."
Grindelwald seemed to be grinding the name with his teeth. He looked Vader up and down and said it again slowly: "Vader Grey..."
He asked, "Dumbledore gave you private lessons?"
Vader: “……?”
He blinked and said decisively, "Yes."
Of course Dumbledore gave him lessons, took him through the lives of two Dark Lords, and taught him Apparition himself.
——Although Wade felt that this was not what Grindelwald meant by "teaching", but... could he deny it at this time?
Certainly not.
Dumbledore is a man of powerful magic, resourceful, and highly respected. The responsibility that Wade cannot shoulder now can be easily shouldered by the headmaster.
Although the great man's far-sighted strategy was correct, it should not have come from the mouth of a thirteen-year-old child.
After hearing his answer, Grindelwald was silent for a long time, and then he said as if talking to himself: "I thought that he had been avoiding reality and the past all these years, hiding in that school as a professor with no desires... I didn't expect it..."
Grindelwald looked at Wade with a curious look and murmured, "Yes... He is a professor... He taught a student like you..."
Wade kept silent, only hearing his own heart beating violently.
"Boom boom boom!"
As if in response to his heartbeat, there was a sudden knock on the door. Wade quickly pulled up his hood, and then Delain came in with two other black-robed wizards, controlling three people with spells.
An old man with a dark complexion and a beard; a woman who looked to be in her forties or fifties, still charming and with an elegant and delicate hairstyle; and a young man, handsome in appearance, with three or four jeweled rings on his hands.
They could tell at a glance who was the leader in the room, and they all cast pleading looks at Grindelwald, as if they were trying hard to say something, but their mouths were tightly closed and they couldn't utter a word.
Delain leaned forward and said, "Sir, they are the people in charge and managers of this place. As for this young man, it is said that he is the son of a Muggle nobleman."
Grindelwald nodded and said, "Antoine."
A black-robed wizard hurried out and saluted.
Grindelwald pointed at Wade and said, "Take this boy back first. He will help you with the rest of the work."
"Yes." Antoine Moreau gestured to Wade, put his arm around his shoulders and left.
As he walked out of the room, Wade heard Grindelwald's voice behind him:
"There are some Muggles with particularly strong wills. In order to avoid wasting time, greet them before you use Legilimency."
"Yes." Delain cast the spell without hesitation: "Crucio!"
The Muggle leader in the room howled in pain like a sob, but even though he was enduring inhuman pain, he couldn't make a sound.
"Let's go."
Antoine Moreau grabbed Wade's arm, pulled out something that looked like a lighter from his arms, and pressed hard.
With a "click", the two of them disappeared from where they were in an instant!
……
Vader returned to the dark gray castle.
At this time, the castle seemed empty and silent. Antoine Moreau appeared on a circular platform with Wade.
He saw a hillside in the distance covered with white snow and a brown bear walking slowly at the edge of the forest.
"Come with me, Wade!" Moro pulled him through a small door into the castle and asked, "Do you know how to edit the footage we recorded?"
"A little bit," Vader said.
"Great!" Moreau said happily. "I thought I had to kidnap an editor from Aslan! This saves me a lot of trouble... Dear Hannah, lend me the scissors!"
When passing by a woman carrying a basket, Moreau suddenly reached out and took the scissors from the basket, then said with a smile.
The woman was stunned for a moment, then became furious: "Put it down, you thief! I haven't finished my work yet!"
"Sorry, sorry, I'll be done with it in a minute!"
Moreau shouted loudly and pulled Wade away quickly.
They ran into a room filled with mirrors of all sizes. Morrow looked outside and saw that no one was following them, so he quickly closed the door.
He solemnly placed the scissors in Wade's hands, and also placed the mother mirror of the video in Wade's hands, and said, "Okay, cut it quickly! I have to return it to Hannah after I finish cutting it."
Wade looked at him with a strange look and asked, "Who told you to use scissors to edit videos?"
"Huh? Isn't that how all Muggle movies are made?"
Moro scratched his hair and said blankly: "Cut the film with scissors and glue it together... I was curious before, so I sneaked in and watched it secretly... uh..."
He picked up the mother mirror and suddenly said, "There is no film in it...right?"
"Of course not." Wade sighed and said, "We are wizards. We have to use wizard methods. You should return the scissors to others." Moreau smiled awkwardly, pointed his wand, and the scissors immediately flew up and then quickly flew away through the window.
Wade was a little worried that the scissors would turn into a weapon if they flew out like that, but it was too late to stop them. He shook his head and tapped the mother mirror with his wand.
The images just recorded were immediately shown on several nearby mirrors.
The video begins with the wizards arriving at the base via Portkey.
While reviewing the video, Vader taught Moreau how to edit.
"The spell is actually very simple - do you know the magic of extracting memory?" Vader asked.
"Of course I will," Moreau said.
"That's easy. You have to think of the video as the machine's 'memory' and select the part you need."
Vader said as he flicked his wand slightly.
At this moment, the video was playing the scene of wizards rushing towards the base. A piece of silver-white mist was picked up by his wand and wrapped around the tip of the wand. It looked very similar to the memory mist.
“It’s actually no different than cutting and pasting film together, it’s just more flexible and simpler. But if you want to make a video shocking and attractive, you can’t just do it this monotonously.”
"Then what should we do?" Moreau asked humbly.
“First, choose an impactful image… Use the right color combination… The way and timing of the camera switching are very important…”
Wade operated it, and the sub-mirror screen was immediately split into two, with each half playing a different scene.
Morrow asked doubtfully, "So half of the time you won't be able to pay attention to it, right?"
"So people will watch it a second or even a third time just to see their other half," said Weider.
Moro experienced it himself and found that it was true, and couldn't help but give a thumbs up.
Wade continued, "Don't be afraid that the audience can't see clearly. Sometimes an overload of information can be more attractive..."
“It’s also important to add eye-catching subtitles and titles that immediately make sense of what you’re trying to say…”
"The bloody scene is easier to bear if it's changed to black and white... And the screams will make many people feel uncomfortable and physically disgusted, so it's necessary to change to matching music..."
"I've learned how to change the color, but how do I change the sound?" Moro interrupted while taking notes quickly in a small notebook.
"Just re-record it. Use a silencing spell on the original video, and then cover it with the new music."
Vader demonstrated it to him.
"Wait, it's over already?" Moro said in surprise, "This is too short, isn't it? A lot of useful scenes weren't included! I think... I think it can be made longer! ... Is that okay?"
Perhaps because Wade's identity at this time was "teacher", Moreau's voice seemed inexplicably cautious.
Wade shook his head and said, "Do you know what 15-second reading means? Reading for too long will distract your attention. Content that is 12 to 15 seconds long is more likely to leave a deep impression..."
“You can divide the video into several segments to deepen memory and attract attention, and then integrate it into a complete video of about half an hour, and choose to play it before or after dinner.”
At this time, short videos have not yet become popular among Muggles, but Wade can learn from their successful experience.
After teaching him the editing method, he asked Morrow to edit two videos by himself until he fully mastered the method.
Moreau looked at his own achievements, and suddenly turned to Wade and said, "You actually agree with Mr. Grindelwald's idea, right? Otherwise, you only need to tell me the spell of extracting and integrating the fragments. There is no need to teach me so much."
The image in the sub-mirror was still playing, and the flickering light was reflected on Wade's face, making his expression appear profound and gloomy, which was inconsistent with his age.
He looked at the strangely decayed bodies of the people in the picture and whispered, "I just feel that this kind of thing shouldn't happen on this planet...that's all."
"Really?" Morrow pretended not to hear and said with a smile: "Wade, I'm waiting for the day when you truly become our companion... I think it won't be too far away..."
"Antoine!"
A man suddenly broke into the room, his body covered in blood, a large part of his cloak was burnt, and in his palm was another mother mirror.
"This just ended... Mr. Grindelwald just led us to break into a Muggle tycoon's manor! You really should go and see it! That guy built a basement comparable to a palace, and imprisoned hundreds of people... Oh!"
He suddenly saw Wade, especially the face that was obviously still underage, and immediately swallowed the rest of his words and almost bit his tongue.
"This...this is..."
"Mr. Grindelwald's captive and guest." Morrow said, taking the mother mirror from him and waving him away: "Okay, leave this thing to me! You go and treat it quickly."
"Prisoners? Guests?"
The wizard was driven out by Moreau with a question mark on his head and limped away.
……
Order of the Phoenix, meeting room.
"boom!"
The door was almost slammed open, and a tall figure walked in quickly. Although he was not injured, his face looked extremely pale.
"Dumbledore!"
Kingsley Shacklebolt, the usually calm and composed Auror, could not hide the shock in his eyes.
Dumbledore quickly stood up and walked over to him, asking, "Kingsley, what happened?"
"Any news about Vader?" Lupin asked hastily.
"No." Kingsley shook his head, swallowed, looked at everyone and said, "But... that person took action... Grindelwald..."
Everyone's expressions changed.
"The Ministry of Magic has received the latest news -" Kingsley continued: "that this man attacked five Muggle locations in one day, using fireworks to leave witchcraft marks in the sky. And... and... in each place, they found... found..."
"Found what?" Sirius asked impatiently, "Did you stutter suddenly?"
Kingsley thought of the scene at that time and for a moment he didn't know what words to use to describe it.
He took out a stack of black-and-white photos from his pocket, pushed them forward, and said, "Look for yourselves..."
……
Although the Weasley family lives in poverty, the Weasleys are not the type to live frugally. On the contrary, they are very good at using limited money to add as much fun as possible to their lives.
Therefore, a large space was squeezed out in the crowded living room of the humble bureau to place the most popular flow mirror in the magic world.
After dinner, Mr. Weasley was still working overtime and hadn't come back yet. Harry, Michael and the Weasley children had already squeezed onto the carpet in front of the mirror and sat down. Mrs. Weasley sat on the sofa at the back, knitting while watching "TV".
A TV series about aliens and the supernatural is currently being broadcast. It is full of Muggle's magical imagination and realistic special effects, which is enough to make everyone addicted to it.
Although Michael and others were still worried about Wade, when the tense and mysterious opening song sounded, the two squeezed into the crowd and sat down.
In the scene, just as the protagonist caught the alien villain's flaw, the mirror suddenly flashed and became blurry.
"Strange, is it broken?"
Fred and George were ready to start repairing it, but the picture suddenly returned to normal.
"What is this?" Ginny asked in surprise.
Everyone looked up, only to see that the aliens and the hero and heroine were nowhere to be found. In the mirror was a large group of dark wizards, who surrounded a building like mourning birds. One of them held up a magic wand, and a blue flame exploded.
Mrs. Weasley's face suddenly turned pale!
(End of this chapter)