The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 193 Nurmengard's Prisoner Life

In the past few decades, only Grindelwald lived in this castle, but today another person is ushered in. The arrival of this person may add a little life to the castle.

After Grindelwald taught Ada how to enter and exit the castle, he turned around and went upstairs. The original Dark Lord had nothing to say to Ada.Taking in Ada and allowing Ada to live here is already for Dumbledore's sake. This is Nurmengard, not a psychological institution. Grindelwald has no intention of enlightening troubled girls.

After the owner of the castle left, Ada took a tour on the first floor. Except for the extremely spacious hall, the rest of the first floor were functional rooms like the reception room, and there were no suitable rooms.

Climbing up the stairs, Ada finally found a bedroom that satisfied her.It is said to be a bedroom, but Ada thinks it would be more appropriate to use loft to describe it. When the door is opened, there is a small reception room, and a flight of stairs is the bedroom.What makes Ada most satisfied is the super-large floor-to-ceiling windows in the suite. Holding on to the railing, you will feel a kind of pride in your chest when you look at the snow-capped mountains through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Now that you have decided to choose this loft, the first thing you need to do is to clean it up. There are dust and floating dust all over the floor. This place is not suitable for people to live in.The hard bed with the mattress missing, the bookshelf that was once full of books but now is empty, the carpet with no original color, and only the framed portraits left, all of which need to be tidied up by Ada.

Fortunately, Ada once cleaned up the Shrieking Shack with the house elf Winnie, so she was able to clean up the loft with ease.In the process of tidying up, Ada felt that this room seemed to have been lived in by a woman, or was decorated by a woman herself. There is no pink atmosphere, but the decoration is very warm.

It took a full afternoon for Ada to tidy up the room, and she also had time to see what Professor McGonagall had prepared for her.Ada fumbled in the handbag that had been cast with the Untraceable Stretching Charm. She took out three sets of clothes, a set of pajamas, two pairs of shoes, a few books she was reading recently, and some food that could be used to satisfy her hunger. Snacks, tea bags, cocoa powder, creamer and more.

It was not until a set of bedding was brought out that the handbag was emptied. Ada said that she was exiled, but the things prepared by Professor McGonagall seemed to be for Ada’s vacation, no wonder she went so far. It took a long time to return to the principal's office.

If this is not a deep mountain in Austria, but a tropical island, and Ada pulls out a bikini, it will be more like a vacation.

As the sky gradually darkened, Ada, who was hungry, squinted her eyes and appeared in the storage room on the first floor of the castle. There was only bread and some vegetables for soup.Seeing that there is not even a piece of steak here, Ada, who is a carnivore, is very dissatisfied. She retracts the statement that Grindelwald is an exiled monarch. Whose exiled monarch drinks vegetable soup every day, and the rabbit can't stand eating like this!
Ada first filled her stomach, and then delivered a simple dinner to the top floor of the castle. After knocking on the door and putting down the plate, Ada left. It was his business whether Grindelwald ate or not. irrelevant.

Back in her room, Ada used the flame spell to raise a flame in the fireplace, and the warm magic flame dispelled the chill in the room.Ada found another large copper kettle, boiled a large pot of boiling water, and brewed a cup of hot cocoa for herself. Ada sat in front of the railing, quietly flipping through the "Guide to Medieval Witchcraft" in her hand.

But Ada wasn't interested in the words in front of her. What she was thinking about was another book, a book she had seen at the Burrow, called "The Magic of Baking Bread".Books are not enough when they are used. If Ada could read this book when she was at the Burrow, her life in Nurmengard would probably be easier.

Putting away the "Guide to Medieval Witchcraft", holding hot cocoa in the palm of her hand, Ada leaned on the railing to admire the bright moonlight.Her exile in Nurmengard began on this silvery night, but she didn't know when it would end.

Ada can actually choose to escape from Nurmengard, and just leave. She knows how to get in and out of the castle, and Grindelwald will not stop her from leaving.It's just that after she escaped from the castle privately, she might never go back to Hogwarts again.

In this way, Ada settled down in Nurmengard, and she and Grindelwald did not disturb each other, and lived their own lives.Grindelwald spends his time on the top floor of the castle, not going anywhere except when he goes downstairs for meals.

Compared with Grindelwald, an otaku, Ada lived more comfortably. During the day, she either read a book, rested in the castle, or wandered outside the castle. She also found a small village with simple folk customs.At night, Ada will stay in the castle and clean the castle properly. It's not that Ada is hardworking, but it's really dirty here.

Such a peaceful day lasted until the fifth day before it was broken. It was not Ada who violated the previous agreement, but Grindelwald who broke it on his own initiative.

This morning, Grindelwald went downstairs to have breakfast as usual.Since Ada came, Grindelwald didn't have to prepare breakfast and dinner by himself, because Ada, who needed more energy, was hungry faster than himself.

Ada tore the bread and said hello without raising her head: "Good morning."

"Good morning." This was the first time Grindelwald responded to Ada's greeting in a few days.After sitting down, Grindelwald suddenly found that in addition to bread and vegetable soup, there was an extra piece of bacon on the plate.

"Where did this bacon come from?" Grindelwald asked.The food delivery guy hadn't delivered meat in years, and Grindelwald didn't care.

"Of course it was exchanged with the villagers at the bottom of the mountain." Ada explained, "There are some old handicrafts in the castle, which are very popular with the villagers."

Ada couldn't stand the dry bread after several days of choking, so Ada, who wanted to eat meat, found a simple villager at the foot of the mountain.Although Ada didn't have any Muggle currency, there were some exquisite old handicrafts in the castle, so Ada used the most primitive barter method to exchange some meat from the villagers.

The simple and kind-hearted villagers did not regard Ada as a child who lived in the downtown area with "dog head gold", and she did not have to pretend to be a magic stick to deceive these villagers, although she wanted to be a white wolf at first.

At first, Grindelwald thought that Ada couldn't bear the boring life in Nurmengard, and would cry and cry to go back to Hogwarts in a few days.But Ada persisted here for five days without complaint, and used her own methods to improve the food in the castle (although Grindelwald paid for it).

The castle gradually became clean and tidy. Although Ada only lived here quietly, she really brought youthful vitality to Nurmengard.

"Why do you think you came here?" Grindelwald asked.

Swallowing the last bite of bread, Ada said: "I don't think I did anything wrong, and I will give back to others what others have done to me. If I insist that I am wrong, maybe I shouldn't have such a talent? Or Is it my dissatisfaction with my status?"

"Magic will only flourish in a few souls. This is never a mistake, but your birthright." Grindelwald said, "Your mistake is that you are still weak, and your mistake is that you don't have a firm and unshakable spirit." Thought."

"To this day, do you still think you are right?"

"I admit my failure, and I admit that I have brought pain to many people, but I never think that my ideals are wrong, what is wrong is only the way I practice my ideals." Grindelwald said, "I It was once predicted that Muggles would have more power than wizards, and this prediction has already become a reality. You come from the world of Muggles, so you should see it more clearly."

Airplanes, cannons, missiles, and nuclear bombs, Muggles are no longer at the mercy of wizards. Muggle society is changing with each passing day, but wizards are standing still and even regressing.Once the wizarding world is exposed and wizards and Muggles choose to go to war, Ada is not optimistic about the decaying wizarding world.

The Grindelwald in front of him once almost destroyed the entire Paris with a single spell, but among the few wizards, how many of them can do this?Unless wizards use the Imperius Curse to control the upper echelons of Muggle society, and at the same time deceive other classes, the balance of victory will sooner or later turn to Muggles.

But these are just empty words. If you want to start a war with the Muggle world, you first need to integrate the combat power of the entire magic world. This is almost impossible. If you don’t believe me, just ask Grindelwald, do you think he has done it?
"Because your mind is not firm, you will hesitate when doing things. If I were you, I would unify the group of uninformed students. If they are still so hopeless, I will let them have an unforgettable experience .” Grindelwald continued, “Instead of being anticlimactic like you.”

(End of this chapter)