"The Blood Curse, as the name suggests, is a curse that uses blood as a medium. The curser will lose his soul, and the cursed will be haunted by the curse, including his descendants — until they lose everything," Grindelwald said as if he was just telling a common story.
"How cruel —" Grindelwald dragged his voice, but it was hard to tell how cruel he thought the Blood Curse was. "Those who are cursed by the Blood Curse will never appear in this world. They will completely turn into animals, lose all human relationships, and then die under the gun of a hunter or the pitchfork in the hand of a farmer. Oh, they may also be served on the table of those who eat wild animals."
Anna promised that she would never eat any wild animals in the future. Grindelwald patted his coarse clothes and flicked off the food residue on it. "Speaking of which, the history of the island of Azkaban has something to do with the Blood Curse. You know that the island is full of Dementors. Oh, of course you know. You saved the criminal under their noses."
Anna smiled awkwardly. "Those Dementors are really large in number." They almost surrounded the entire island.
"Dementors only appear in the darkest and most filthy places. They like to live in decay and despair." Grindelwald adjusted his sitting posture and cleared his throat so that he could communicate better. God knew how boring it was for him to stay in the dark room alone. "The Dementors on the island in the middle of the North Sea existed before the construction of Azkaban. As for the reason, it has something to do with a black wizard named Ectis."
"What did he do?
That black wizard? "Anna pretended to be a good student and listened to the lecture carefully.
"He did something that really fits the name 'black wizard'." Grindelwald counted with his fingers. "There was no food on the island. Although Ectis, as a wizard, could easily solve this problem, he obviously chose a more complicated way. He summoned a storm, lured the shipwrecked Muggle sailors to the island, tortured, killed, and finally served them on the table."
"He threw away half of the inedible parts of the Muggles and used the other half for his magical experiments, which were far more evil than the experiments I did in Durmstrang."
Grindelwald put down his hand. "No one knows how many people died on the island, but I heard that the British Ministry of Magic dug up a lot of bones when they built Azkaban. These bones filled the island and even widened part of the island. They are everywhere. So the question is, how did this powerful black wizard die?"
Anna raised her hand. "I'm guessing it's the Blood Demon Curse!"
"Correct!"
"According to his diary, one day after a rainstorm, an escape boat came to his island. It looked the same as usual. There were three sailors and two male and female nobles under their protection. However, the male noble was a wizard."
"Ectis was very happy. He finally had someone to show off his research results. He warmly entertained the newly married wizard with the ingredients he had just obtained."
"The poor wizard was drunk. When he woke up the next day, he found that his wife was gone. He searched everywhere in Ectis' house until he found the kitchen —"
"He finally knew what he had eaten yesterday. He found the ring that he put on his wife's finger. The ring was still on her finger, but the finger was no longer where it should be..."
"Oh." Grindelwald looked at Anna's face, which looked like she had eaten a pickled fish burger. "Anna, I forgot that you're still a little girl. Do you have nightmares? Sorry, I don't often get along with children."
"You'd better stay away from other children, Professor Grindelwald." Anna was glad that she was a 21st-century youth. If a child heard about this, it would be strange if they did not have nightmares. "I can accept it... and treat it as a horror story. So, the wizard who lost his wife cursed Ectis?"
"Yes. Although he lost the duel with Ectis, he used the Blood Demon Curse to burn his soul and cursed Ectis, making him slowly and irreversibly turn into a pig."
"Pig?" Anna felt that such a silly creature should not appear at this time.
"Don't underestimate them," Grindelwald explained. "Pigs are magical Muggle creatures. Maybe you don't know this, but Muggle creatures like pigs have the least affinity with magic. Any magic related to pigs is not simple."
"If a person curses someone into a pig with the Blood Demon Curse, it must be an unforgivable hatred. It's harder to break than the Blood Demon Curse that turns people into snakes. In the end, Ectis failed to break the Blood Demon Curse and became a wild boar that starved to death on an isolated island."
"So, the Blood Demon Curse that turns people into snakes can be broken?" Anna grasped the key point. "Can you tell me more about this?
Professor Grindelwald? "
"You have a friend who was cursed?
That's terrible, Anna. It's terrible, but it's not like there's no solution. "Grindelwald paused for a second." I once said that this curse is placed in the blood. Those who continue the bloodline will be cursed, but if the descendants of the cursed person abandon their bloodline, the curse will disappear... "
"What should I do?"
"Go find a vampire, the older the better."
"A vampire?
You mean the kind that bites people's necks and sucks their blood?
Or those unscrupulous capitalists who like to oppress and exploit others? "Anna frowned." I'm more looking forward to the latter. "
"The kind that only sucks blood. I'm sorry to disappoint you, Anna. To break the Blood Demon Curse, all the blood in the cursed person's body must be sucked out. If you want to do this without killing people, only a vampire can do it." Grindelwald patted Anna's shoulder.
"It's not easy to find a vampire. Although they are as common as werewolves, they are very good at hiding, especially those old vampires. Their hundreds of years of life make them prefer to live in seclusion..."
"Sanguinia?"
Anna suddenly thought that maybe she could try to summon this ancient vampire, but soon her dangerous idea was stopped by Grindelwald.
"Don't — Anna, if you're talking about Sanguinia of the Loire River," Grindelwald said seriously, which was rare for him. "Although I don't know how you know this name, don't summon her. It's a big trouble."
"You've summoned her before?" Anna tilted her head. She saw Grindelwald nodding with a sullen face. "What did she do?"
"That annoying mosquito, who hunted madly in Durmstrang. Every day, people fainted from excessive blood loss. Everyone saw the teeth marks, and knew that there was a vampire in the school. But no one caught her, or even saw her." Grindelwald recalled the past. "Only I knew where she was, because I always felt that my left shoulder was heavier than my right shoulder —" "—" — "—"
"The vampire stood on my left shoulder, and I couldn't see her. Her existence had begun to attract the attention of the teachers, and I couldn't get rid of that annoying vampire. Until I softened the bones of my left shoulder with a spell. I heard her laughter, a very silly laughter, and then the weight disappeared."
Grindelwald stared at the flashlight in Anna's hand. "She left, and I was happy. The twelve-year-old me had to stay in the school hospital for three weeks to recover my bones. I had to stay with those anemic idiots who bathed in garlic and slept with silver plates. I told them that the vampire had left, and they gave me a bag of garlic and told me not to let my guard down."
"By the way, garlic and silver items are not harmful to vampires. Sunlight will not burn them, it will only make them unable to see clearly. Compared to these, they are actually more afraid of fast food restaurants. Yes, those muggle shops with the yellow M logo," Grindelwald said with a shrug.
"Vampires think that fast food restaurants are evil because they make people fat and their blood becomes unhealthy. The vampires can only watch the high-quality food gradually 'spoil.'"
"Maybe you can go to the fast food restaurants and look for the vampires. Those grumpy staff who can't wait for you to leave immediately are probably hidden vampires. They are using their own ways to save the humans who are about to become fat, and at the same time, to save their own food."