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[wandthief]

Now Hix is gone do the rest of you want a notorious dark wizard roaming around unwatched and unchecked? Any volunteers to amuse me by attempting to be my temporary warden?

Admiral, I want my powers returned to me as they were when I arrived. That's only fair.


[Private to Arthas and Frostmourne]

Did you frighten Hix that much that he had to flee?

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

Then I look forward to you saying something nice to me on that day.

[subtlescience]

I'm not a nice man, Grindelwald.

Perhaps if you held your breath...?

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

I know you're not. I did read your story.

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[subtlescience]

As has half the Barge.

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

And what would you call yourself? Evil? Dark? Good...?

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[subtlescience]

When I first came here, I couldn't have answered that.

Now? Morally ambiguous but with a strong and healthy inclination not to murder people. Or throw them over the side.

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

But you have murdered people?

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[subtlescience]

You know the answer to that. You did read my story.

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

It did not say every little thing you did, as it did not say everything that I did.

It wasn't inside of your mind. It didn't say what you enjoyed or didn't enjoy of what you did.

So I'd like to hear the truth from you.

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[subtlescience]

You asked if I murdered people, not whether I enjoyed it.

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

Now I'm asking both.

Although I'm not surprised about you evading giving me a direct answer.

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[subtlescience]

If you're not surprised, then I imagine you think you already have an answer.

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

No, which is why I am asking.

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[subtlescience]

I have never enjoyed murder.

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

Would you call what you did to Dumbledore murder?

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[subtlescience]

Yes.

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

Hm.

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[subtlescience]

You don't?

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

It was something he felt had to be done, was it not?

Without much thought for yourself. As you said, you don't enjoy murder. He always did have a selfish streak.

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[subtlescience]

Does it make it any less reprehensible that I had his permission?

Assisted suicide is still murder.

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

It wasn't quite that either though.

Grand plans. Manipulations. He really didn't change very much.

I could be angry at you for what you did, you realise, but I know all too well what he could be like.

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[subtlescience]

You don't know what you're talking about.

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

Oh?

DUMDEDUM STILL FILTERED FROM NEVILLE.

[subtlescience]

You presume to know me and my relationship with him based on what could amount to little vignettes of conversations, taken from a book written from the viewpoint of a child.

You think this absolution you've given me is any comfort for the fact that I murdered him? He was a manipulative bastard, so it's all right? Yes, I'll sleep better nights knowing I have Gellert Grindelwald's seal of approval.

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[wandthief.livejournal.com]

I'm not approving of your actions. I just understand he had a master plan, as did I. His involved some disagreeable things and he asked a great deal of you, if those fictionalised accounts are in any way accurate.

I know as much about your true relationship with him as you do of my relationship with him. Which is to say: very little.

Which is why I prefer it this way, speaking to you directly.