Gellert Grindelwald

Gellert Grindelwald is a male character who features in Harry Potter.

Biography

Gellert Grindelwald

It was shown that Grindelwald was an adolescent friend of Albus Dumbledore and that the two of them planned to establish a new world order, where wizards would rule over Muggles "for the greater good". Another one of their goals was to seek out the three fabled Deathly Hallows. However, Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus's younger brother, argued against these plans, because he feared their grand ambitions would leave his disabled, traumatized sister, Ariana, abandoned. The argument culminated in a three-way battle between Albus, Aberforth, and Grindelwald. Ariana was inadvertently killed by one of them. Grindelwald fled, fearing retribution. Henceforth, Albus ended his relationship with him. Grindelwald successfully obtained one of the Deathly Hallows, the Elder Wand. He became master of the legendary wand by stealing it and assaulting the previous owner, the wand-maker Gregorovitch. Gaining the Elder Wand's immense power, he subsequently committed many terrible acts, although these seem to have been restricted to central and eastern Europe.

After Grindelwald's rise to power, Dumbledore delayed meeting him again for several years due to his fear of being confronted with his sister's death and the fact he himself might have been the one to have accidentally killed her. Both wizards were highly intelligent and skilled in battle, and those who witnessed the battle say that no wizarding duel ever matched that of Dumbledore and Grindelwald in 1945. Grindelwald, who at the time possessed the supposedly unbeatable Elder Wand, lost to Dumbledore. Grindelwald had stolen the wand from Gregorovitch, a European wandmaker; however he was recognised by the light of the wand due to his use of a stunning curse on Gregorovitch as he fled. It is necessary that Grindelwald became the master of the wand for it to have passed on through Dumbledore as it does. After Dumbledore triumphed over Grindelwald, the defeated dark wizard was imprisoned in the top-most cell of Nurmengard, a prison Grindelwald himself had built for his opponents. He remains there until the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Voldemort arrives, seeking the Elder Wand. Grindelwald, showing no fear of Voldemort, lies and tells him that he never owned the wand, and Voldemort kills him in rage. In the chapter King's Cross, Harry suggests to Dumbledore that Grindelwald lied to Voldemort in order to prevent him from breaking into Dumbledore's tomb, where he knew the Elder Wand lay. Dumbledore suggests that in his later years Grindelwald had felt remorse for his evil actions.

Notes

• Gellert Grindelwald was created by J. K. Rowling.

Appearances

• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them:
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald:

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