"Queenie?" Jacob asked leaving the tomb.
We walked out, everyone was sitting, waiting for Grindelwald to show up.
"It's a trap," Tina said.
"Yeah," Newt and I breathed.
"Queenie, the family tree, it's all been bait," Newt said.
"We have to find a way out of here right now," I said.
"You go find the others, Anna, come with me," Newt said.
"What are you going to do?" Tina asked.
"We'll think of something," I replied.
We walked to find a seat. Everyone started clapping. Grindelwald had arrived. He gestured for everyone to stop clapping.
"My brothers, my sisters, my friends, the great gift for your applause is not for me," Grindelwald said, "No. It is for yourselves, you came today for a craving and for a knowledge that the old ways serve us no longer, you came today because you crave something new, something different."
I watched as everyone listened to him eagerly.
"It is said that I hate les non-Magiques, the Muggles."
"Vermin!" someone shouted.
"The No-Maj, the Can't-Spells."
There was a mutter in the crowd.
"I do not hate them, I do not. For I do not fight out of hatred. I say the Muggles are not lesser, but other. Not worthless but of other value. Not disposable, but of a different disposition."
He was manipulating the crowd. Of course he hated them, everyone knew he hated them. He hated me.
"Magic blooms only in rare souls, it is granted to those who live for higher things. Oh and what a world we would make for all of humanity. We who live for freedom, for truth and for love."
He wasn't saying it but he was implying it, wizards were superior than Muggles. I wished that we could all just live equally.
"I believe it is the moment to share my vision for the future that awaits if we do not rise up and take our rightful place in the world."
He grabbed his skull-hookah and showed us his vision.
Soldiers running and tanks moving with them. Planes flying and bombing buildings. Another war. The vision stopped.
Everyone stared in shock. Some had tears in their eyes. Why was there going to be another war? Have we not learned?
Suddenly, a vision of a huge explosion was shown.
"That is what we are fighting. That is the enemy. Their arrogance. Their power lust. Their barbarity. How long will it take before they turn their weapons on us?"
I looked around and saw Theseus and his aurors. Were they going to attack?
"Do nothing when I speak of this. You must remain calm and contain your emotions, there are Aurors here among us."
I gulped as I listened to the murmurs from the crowd.
"Come close, brother wizards, join us," he told Theseus and the Aurors.
They walked downstairs, everyone watching them.
"They have killed many of my followers, it is true. They confined me and tortured me in New York, they had struck down their fellow witches and wizards. For the simple crime of seeking the truth."
He was trying to get someone to attack. I had my wand gripped into my hand.
"For wanting freedom. Your anger, your desire for revenge is natural."
A witch struck the Killing Curse at an auror. He rebounded the curse.
"No!" Grindelwald shouted.
Everyone pointed their wands at the auror.
Grindelwald walked up to the witch and caressed her cheek. I saw Teddy the Niffler walk under his legs.
"Take this young warrior back to her family," he said, "Disapparate. Leave this place. Spread the word. It is not we who are violent."
I watched as everyone disapparated apart from us. We walked closer to Grindelwald.
"Let's take him," Theseus commanded his aurors.
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Battle Against Grindelwald
Fanfiction"It all started with an owl." When Anna Booth had gotten an owl from her old time friend, Newt Scamander to travel with him to write a book about magical creatures, she dared say no. However, would she still say yes if she knew what would happen? An...
