[ Hogwarts is no longer safe, the Ministry is nothing more than a mouthpiece to make it seem like everything that's happening is legal. Poor Dean had been on the run from the Ministry since the start of the school year when it fell, after it started registering Muggleborns. ]
They call it the Second Wizarding War. The first began long before I was born, and it ended when I was less than a year old.
[This was the second...? Immediately, his mind starts to calculate the numbers, locating the years in time. If that is indeed the case, if the war against Gellert ends in the next decade or so...
Then there will still be three wizarding wars in the span of seventy years. Not a single witch or wizard will be able to make it to middle age without encountering the effects of one.
Dumbledore is quiet for a very long moment, taking it all in. Eventually, he exhales shakily before answering:]
I appreciate you sharing all of this with me, Miss Lovegood. It is very helpful to know.
[Another short pause, and then he asks:] May I ask one more question, if it is not too much to ask? The global wizarding war -- the one occurring in the time I come from -- do you have any idea when it ends?
I wish I could share something happier, but we seem to be in short supply of happiness back home.
[ It's... quite awful being the bearer of bad news. There really is little to be cheerful about in their world. Only the hope that soon, very soon -- they might just finally win.
And then it's Luna's time to fall quiet, a short pause in the messages. When it ends. It doesn't... really end, in a way. What Grindelwald began simply paved the way for Voldemort's rise. Those sentiments never really went away. ]
1945. I'm afraid I don't know more specific than that, but that's definitely the year.
[1945. Christ. So the war continues for -- nearly twenty years? Is that how long he dawdled, hoping for another resolution? Or did Gellert lie in wait for years, hiding where he couldn't be found? He can't say, and he doubts Luna knows, but it roils him all the same.
Still, he nods at the response, looking haunted and sad and resigned all at once.]
Thank you, Luna. You've been an enormous help to me.
[ It's certainly a long, drawn out affair. Voldermort's rise to power was something over ten years for the most part. But she certainly knows that Grindelwald has remained in Nurmengard ever since, due to Dumbledore's actions. ]
You're welcome, professor. I'm sorry it wasn't of help with something more... happier. But I'm glad it did help.
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They call it the Second Wizarding War. The first began long before I was born, and it ended when I was less than a year old.
This one began almost three years ago, now.
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Then there will still be three wizarding wars in the span of seventy years. Not a single witch or wizard will be able to make it to middle age without encountering the effects of one.
Dumbledore is quiet for a very long moment, taking it all in. Eventually, he exhales shakily before answering:]
I appreciate you sharing all of this with me, Miss Lovegood. It is very helpful to know.
[Another short pause, and then he asks:] May I ask one more question, if it is not too much to ask? The global wizarding war -- the one occurring in the time I come from -- do you have any idea when it ends?
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[ It's... quite awful being the bearer of bad news. There really is little to be cheerful about in their world. Only the hope that soon, very soon -- they might just finally win.
And then it's Luna's time to fall quiet, a short pause in the messages. When it ends. It doesn't... really end, in a way. What Grindelwald began simply paved the way for Voldemort's rise. Those sentiments never really went away. ]
1945. I'm afraid I don't know more specific than that, but that's definitely the year.
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Still, he nods at the response, looking haunted and sad and resigned all at once.]
Thank you, Luna. You've been an enormous help to me.
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You're welcome, professor. I'm sorry it wasn't of help with something more... happier. But I'm glad it did help.