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In the Dark, A Zabini/ Grindelwald fanfic	By : blaisegellert Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male Views: 1326 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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"I should hardly think Dumbledore requires any help having his name blackened," Gellert said through gritted teeth. Apparently some old rages never faded with time, because his for Dumbledore was as fresh as those early days when the fool had begun to disrupt Gellert's plans out of pure stupidity and bullheaded emotion or whatever it was that drove the goat loving oaf! Likely the only reason Gellert had been put into a book about him was so that it may actually sell, he thought snidely.

"I can't imagine how anyone could find enough to say about him to fill a book or why they would bother," he said. "Of course I'm sure I could insult him enough to fill a book," he added darkly.

"Because he put you away," Blaise asked, his expression soothingly sympathetic. Gellert sighed and nodded, trying to force his own mind to release the sudden surge of rage before it gave him a headache. "He ruined everything, if that book hurt him at all, I should thank the author," he growled.

"Well it may have at that, but everyone believes him to be dead, at least for the moment so I think he has bigger things to worry about. He's laying low in an attempt to work against Voldemort. If Voldemort believes Dumbledore to be dead, hopefully Dumbledore can do more against him and Voldemort won't see it coming."

"Well he needs to do something useful," Gellert said resentfully. "He does love insinuating himself where he doesn't belong, so if he can manage to take someone down who actually needs taking down, it will likely be a first. If he got himself killed instead I would not be displeased, though."

It was nice to feel he could admit this to Blaise. Having someone with whom he could be completely honest was...well a first when he thought about it. There had always been some reason or other to keep at least some of his true thoughts and secrets to himself even when it came to his most loyal and trusted of followers. Blaise had admitted openly to not caring what he did with animals, though, which allowed Gellert to feel free to share other thoughts of an equally personal nature.

"Alas I allowed my feelings over enemies past to distract me from our conversation," he said, giving Blaise an apologetic smile.

"It's alright," Blaise said understandingly. "I never comprehended why Durmstrang cared so much about what you did with animals anyway. I mean the school isn't fluffy like Hogwarts so that always felt a bit off to me."

"Your instincts are good," Gellert told him.
"I suppose my experiments could be deemed the excuse which served to expel me, not the true reason, because worse things were performed in the halls of Durmstrang."

Unsurprised, Blaise nodded. "As I suspected. So why were they screwing with you?"

Gellert arched blonde brows, unfamiliar with the term but gleaning its meaning nonetheless. "My family, it seems, was at war with the Krums and some other influential families who had access to the school's governing body. I wasn't aware of the hostilities at the time, since my parents were dead. I just minded my own affairs, and in that particular case was even hopeful to get some extra curricular grades for the deductions of my experiments. Only later on did I deduce a few things from what my great aunt said on the matter. I am glad you don't care though. So many wizards question methods of inquiry, put theoretical considerations of ethics above the practicality of discovery, and I am certainly not one of them.

My mirror was perhaps the best reflection of my philosophy. I borrowed some attributes from animals and then bestowed them upon the mirror. And the mirror itself, well, it pursued a specific goal. I didn't just want to see for the sake of seeing," he explained, wanting Blaise to understand the true value of his most prized invention because in doing so, he would also understand how Gellert's mind worked, a process in which he seemed to be interested.

"Instead I sought to uncover the mysteries of the various creatures and beings. After all, wizards are often concerned with the final outcome, but not how to create it most efficiently. The mirror allowed me to see which mechanisms were naturally developed in the essential nature of various beings, and then deduce which of those I could reproduce in my charms."

He felt his own smile grow at the light of understanding in Blaise's ice blue eyes.

"The inner workings of many charms became clearer to me, even the non verbal types which had their own peculiarities," he continued. "If only I'd had more time to explore, but perhaps I reached the height of my understanding and instinctively knew it even then, or possibly, I was afraid of not being able to progress further. It is harder to say now which of the two options was truer, but the mirror did mean a lot to me while it lasted," Gellert explained, marveling at his willingness to confide in a near stranger.
Still it felt right and even necessary, so as always he trusted his instincts and followed them. They never steered him wrong...Except for that one time when he had lost all.

Blaise listened in riveted fascination, eager for Gellert's every word. At last someone on his level to talk enchantments with, and bloody Grindelwald of all people! Bloody hell!

"Well now we have all the time in the world to explore that," he said excitedly. "And I'm very interested to see if there is more to know if you'd like a partner in such work. Perhaps together we could combine resources to discover even more ways of application. We can make another mirror!"

Were anyone else in the great hall, they would've been surprised to see an animated eager Blaise when he was usually so cool and frequently withdrawn, but no one spoke to his interests as Gellert did.

Gellert gave a laugh of pure pleasure. "I would love that!"

"So these essences of animals that you used for the mirror...Were they extracted through blood magic or did you work more with spirit to imbibe the mirror," Blaise asked.

As it turns out, I have in fact found a pleasing combination of the two," Gellert said, thrilling to the fact Blaise already understood the basic mechanisms of his very advanced theories. "I came up with a spell that allows me to work blood magic while targeting and incorporating the spirit of the animal," Gellert admitted with a somewhat pleased smile. considering his discovery of the right spell to almost be remarkable.

"Such a mirror could come in handy right now. We can use all the help we can get considering all that's going on. We can even start the process soon. I can have Bramble bring us a mirror even today! Just give me a general outline of the end result you want, then we can combine our resources," Blaise said.

Thoughtfully tilting his head, Grindelwald considered his design, how to implement it and found words hard to formulate, perhaps due to his prolonged captivity.
"I need the mirror to serve similarly in principle to a scrying device with some minor deviations. The nature of the creature under investigation should be projected onto its surface, with some classification added under the image. We will need to obtain the creatures themselves to attach their essences to the mirror, but they are all obtainable. All of this is but the rough outline of course," Gellert concluded with a casually animated wave of one slender hand.

Blaise was almost annoyed to find his usually methodical mind traveling in several directions at once due to his rare level of excitement. The first was that when Gellert Grindelwald tilted his head thoughtfully he looked extremely kissable. Damn! But then there was the possibility of how to implement additions to the mirror and to ad to that an idea he had for upping the defenses here at Hogwarts for purely selfish reasons.

"What if we did a practice run of something more basic. If we made a useful artifact for this stupid school, everyone would be pleased and likely let us alone for longer periods to work on more worthy pursuits. What if we made several scrying mirrors for the professors to use that would allow them to see various areas of the school and its grounds without having to be there. Then it would be more difficult for those who should not be here to infiltrate. The mirrors could be combined with basic defenses. We can make one large mirror to serve as a foundation mirror or main mirror and link smaller more portable mirrors to it for the professors to use. For this mirror as well as the one you want to remake, we can focus on animals to facilitate it that have the sharpest eyes and most flexible habits," he suggested. "To be honest I've never worked with spirit magic at all, but I am fascinated by the possibilities we can achieve by doing so."

It wasn't something he would've considered without Grindelwald's intriguing thoughts on the matter, but he was eager to work with the other wizard, and the idea was challenging and interesting. It provided another way to test his own developing skills, a thing for which he was always eager.

"A great idea, rather," Grindelwald slowly nodded. "It is even possible to enhance the scrying with a magical alarm. A kind of ...Howler, that the Mirror would project when the defenses are breached...It would require refining some details, but could become very handy for an advanced alert, I think," the dark wizard spoke conversationally.

"Brilliant," Blaise enthused, ready to get to work with Grindelwald right away or at least as soon as possible. He basked in the knowledge that Gellert believed him worthy to work on such experiments with him, but he also wished to show the other man that he was right. He'd asked Grindelwald to tell him of his most impressive enchanted object so it was only fair to produce the same in kind. Fortunately for him he was always wearing it.

"Other than the charm to dispel magic that helped get you out of Nurmengard I only have one other example of my own work on me. It's my favorite due to its usefulness. It's this." Blaise touched the large silver and black onyx spider pendant that hung about his neck. "It's the first enchanted item I ever made, actually. It's layered with several levels of protection. It alerts me if someone is using magic on me of any sort. Then it gives a different sort of warning if the magic is dark or harmful. I'm fine with dark magic, obviously, just not used against me," he said with a slight chuckle.

It was almost surreal that he was sitting here showing off his work to Grindelwald of all people. "I've also layered it with detection's that indicate if a magical creature is disguised as a human, or even if a human is cloaked in any sort of magic in my presence. For example if you weren't the real Gellert Grindelwald, it should have given me some sort of sign. I may not know what magic you had on yourself, but I'd know enough to investigate. Those are just a few of the layered protections I put into this thing, there are 6 in all. It took months to fully embed them into the silver because I wanted them strong enough not to be over ridden."

"Yes, of course, hard effort produces the best results in magic," Gellert eagerly agreed, though for the first time, the dark arts failed, at least a little, to awe him with their premise as they ordinarily did. He must have been exhausted, or the years in prison dulled his curiosity, for the young man in front of him was somehow even more fascinating than the spells he was justifiably proud of.

"I like the way you think. I think we would make a magnificent mirror together. And that shall only be the beginning," Gellert grandly declared.

Blaise felt himself flushing in pride filled pleasure at Gellert Grindelwald's complimentary words. One of the most brilliant wizards ever understood that he was brilliant. Gratifying though it was it was also giddily thrilling at the same time. Blaise was accustomed to compliments, but from lesser minds. This mind certainly wasn't lesser. The pretty blonde head in which it was encapsulated was definitely not bad either to put it mildly. And Blaise never blushed, so he was thankful for his dark complexion and hoped it would allow the flush not to be as obvious. At the moment he was also thankful for the table at which they sat as it covered the erection stirring in his black summer slacks. The way Grindelwald's lively blue eyes flashed made Blaise want to draw him close and kiss him breathless.
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