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"Dialogue"
'Thoughts'
-Author notes-
Chapter 245: A Promise Kept
The trolls cried in pain as the blue flames washed over them.
All their magical resistance did was delay their deaths and increase their pain.
Only two of the beasts were able to avoid being burned alive. From their desperation, they broke their enchanted chains and ran away from the house, never to be seen again.
And just like that, Dolohov was left by himself, staring in shock at the old wizard. "That spell… it belongs to Gellert Grindelwald."
"Who said that?" the old wizard asked with a hint of amusement. "That idiot son of mine stole it from my grimoire before going on his crusade to change the world… truly stupid if you ask me."
"Son? But then…" Dolohov had heard briefly about Grindelwald's father. It was said that he was a terrifying wizard from Austria, but little was publicly known about him. He did recall his name now. "Wolfram Grindelwald… is that who you are?"
"The one and only." Wolfram had come to Britain after the mess that his son had made, not to hide himself, but to look after his granddaughter, who most people didn't know existed.
If it wasn't for James's help, the girl would be dead by now, so he owes the boy a great favour. Otherwise, he would never have left his shop.
The blue flames disappeared, and Wolfram walked forward. "Tell me, boy… how do you want to die?" His voice was cold and devoid of emotion, as this was something he had repeated many times in the distant past.
Dolohov was a veteran fighter who had put his life on the line many times already, but hearing this man speak still gave him shivers. "I-It won't be that easy!" He made a gesture with his hand, and the temperature in the room began to descend.
The dementors, who had been merely hovering around the house, felt his call and began to enter the dwelling through doors and windows.
Wolfram saw this with unconcerned eyes, because he knew something that Dolohov was missing.
"You took your sweet time to get here." The old wizard was extremely sensitive to changes in his surroundings and immediately perceived the presence of a new arrival.
A dozen dementors had ventured into the hall and were approaching the old wizard, but… out of nowhere, a pure white light broke through the ceiling and landed on the floor.
It was a large stag made of white light, and as soon as it appeared, the dementors reacted by emitting loud cries and flying as far away as possible.
"A fully corporeal Patronus?" Dolohov stared at the white stag with clear surprise on his face. The aura of purity emanating from the light construct was potent enough even to affect him.
However, what neither of them saw was the person who cast the spell.
The old Wolfram glanced towards the back door that Pollux had gone through. "Looks like I won't have to worry about helping that other child." His eyes shifted to Dolohov. "Instead… I can take my time with you."
Dolohov felt his body tremble.
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"Take that!" An Unforgivable Curse hit a wooden wall and reduced it to pieces.
"Stop him! He's running again!" another Death Eater shouted.
"Come back here, you coward," Abraxas Malfoy exclaimed. "At least take your execution with some dignity. Pollux! Come back h—"
Splash! A glass flask flew through the air and broke in the middle of their group.
A nasty-looking black smoke started to form above the splashed liquid.
Abraxas hurried to cast an air bubble around his head to block the fumes.
The ones who didn't react in time began to choke and passed out on the floor.
Pollux took a peek from behind the door frame. 'Did Bella really make these?...' he asked himself as he thought about the potions that his granddaughter had handed to him before this.
She gave him a couple of potions and merely told him to throw them at the Death Eaters, not really explaining what they were.
However, now that he was seeing several of those men on the floor of the hallway, groaning in pain, Pollux felt a sense of pride filling his chest.
Still, from the dozen men following him, only four had fallen to the effects of the potion, so Pollux turned around and ran again.
"Damn it! Get him!" Abraxas commanded.
The other Death Eaters rushed to go after him.
Pollux had no illusions of being able to tackle so many opponents at the same time. Even if the ones affected by the potion didn't come back, there were still eight adult wizards trying to kill him.
'I still have another one of those potions, and then…' James had promised him that he would come to their aid as soon as possible.
This whole thing had, in fact, been James' idea from the beginning. He knew that Voldemort was not going to stop until he found him and his family, so when it was time to build another house, Pollux had ordered the construction of one more manor.
One that he could register at the Ministry, fully knowing that the Death Eaters would find out about it.
Pollux glanced back after crossing through a small hall. There were only two more doors left available to him. One led to the back garden and the other one to the library.
The back garden was a large open space that would make it easy for the Death Eaters to surround him; the library was empty of books, but it did have all the shelves in place, giving him something to use as cover.
Unfortunately, the library had only one entrance, making it easy for them to trap him inside.
Having made the decision to put up a fight until his last breath, Pollux was about to open the door to the library, but then he heard a voice inside his mind.
'Go to the garden.'
"James…?" Pollux had recognized the voice, but before he had time to question it, he heard his enemies approaching.
"There he is!"
"Avada Kedavra!" Abraxas fired a deadly curse with no hesitation.
Making the snap decision to trust the voice, Pollux opened the door to the back garden and ran out.
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