3 An unexpected surprise

Austria, Nurmengard Castle

In the library of Grindelwald 

Alexander looked at the pile of thick books that Grindelwald told him to read with a stunned look on his face, but soon without complaint, he began to read a book with a title written on the cover.

[Guide to Basic Black Magic]

Alexander began to read the book on black magic with curiosity and after three hours reading it in detail, he knew how black magic worked.

Black magic is a form of magic that has quite specific characteristics in attacks such as death, soul and physical pain of the target. The problem is that all black magic influences the wizard's soul with negative emotions. Making thousands of victims all over the magical world, since those who use black magic to excess have symptoms of disorders and loss of sanity.

Put simply, black magic uses the emotions of the witch in question as fuel and directly attacks the target causing irreparable damage, whether physical or mental.

Alexander closed the guide to basic black magic and began reading another with the title, Basic White Magic Guide.

After more than three hours of reading, Alexander finally understood why white and meaningful magic is weaker than black magic.

Unlike black magic which uses emotions to attack the targets in question. White magic uses the flexibility and smoothness of magic to have contact with the target more closely, thus giving rise to numerous events happening on the object or being in question.

[Author: I did a basic explanation in this chapter on black magic and white magic, but I will go deeper in the course of Fanfic.]

After digesting the knowledge of these two books, Alexander saw that it was already eight o'clock at night and went to dinner with Grindelwald.

This was Alexander's one-year study content. studying white magic and black magic in a week in question is next week jump to subjects such as etiquette, geography, history, mathematics, arts, music and so on.

This lasted a full year until Alexander learned the content of Hogwarts' first to seventh grade, of course in theoretical terms. Since Alexander did not yet have a wand to channel his magic, it is not possible to make the magic that requires much subtlety without the wand.

In terms of magic reserves within Alexander's body, Grindelwald said he had the same magic reserves as a sixth-grader at Hogwarts.

In a white room of hundreds of meters, Grindelwald and Alexander stared at each other with a fearless smile.

"Lesas, do you know which and my most striking spell?" Grindelwald spoke to Alexander showing a smile on his face.

"Professor your blue fire was your trademark, you used the blue flames to try to incinerate the whole city of Paris. They say that four to three giant dragons made of blue fire flew over the Paris commentary, but were stopped by a group of unknown wizards." Alexander spoke to Grindelwald recalling the scene of the film that gave any Harry Potter franchise fan the creeps.

Those blue fire dragons compared to that red fire serpent Voldemort used against Dumbledore is a weak joke compared to the blue flame dragons of Grindelwald.

"Yes, you've done your homework well, now I'll teach you that magic," Grindelwald spoke to Alexander and stood in front of him with a funny smile on his lips.

"Professor, I don't have a wand yet, how will you teach me your magic?" Alexander asked, raising his face and looking directly into Grindelwald's eyes with his face full of confusion.

"That magic is inherited by blood you don't learn. Now get ready, I'll start transferring to you." Grindelwald spoke holding Alexander's arm while inside his veins a tiny blue flame penetrates Alexander's pale skin.

The blue flame threads went through every part of Alexander's body corner and finally settled into his heart.

The moment the flames settled into Alexander's heart, they changed color from blue to black and a small black flame appeared floating in his hand.

"Congratulations on getting your own flame, now every time you go to sleep feed the flame with your magic and it will get stronger over time," Grindelwald spoke by seeing the little black flame floating in his grandson's hand.

Suddenly to Grindelwald and Alexander's surprise, a bunch of black flames condenses on top of the room and a beautiful bird appeared flying over the room.

The bird was the size of a swan and had a totally black plumage with big red eyes that looked directly at Alexander.

The bird then landed directly on Alexander's shoulder while lovingly rubbing her head against Alexander's cheeks.

Grindelwald seeing the blackbird soon recognized it as a phoenix and smiled even more proud of his own grandson.

"Dumbledore, my grandson won a phoenix at the age of nine. You only made it around the age of fifty. I certainly wanted to see your face of disbelief when I saw that." Grindelwald thought full of a sense of superiority even though the phoenix was not his, but Alexander's.

[Author: Warning, I don't know the exact date Dumbledore got his phoenix, so I had to invent one. If anyone knows, please let me know that I'll edit the chapter immediately.]

"Hey, little friend, are you a phoenix?" Feeling the comfortable warmth on his cheek, Alexander asked with a hopeful smile on his lips as he looked at the bird sitting on his shoulder with expectations. After all, who doesn't want such a loyal and powerful partner with a rare black phoenix?

The black phoenix listening to Alexander's question nodded his head up and down confirming his question and began rubbing his cheek expecting something important that Alexander will speak about.

"I think you want to follow me, right? Then you need a name, how about Ciri?" Alexander asked, looking at the phoenix on his shoulder, who nodded saying she accepted the name he gave her.

Seeing Ciri's confirmation, Alexander felt that the moment the black phoenix accepted the name he had given her, a strong bond had been made between the two.

"Congratulations Lesas, for being the first human to have a black phoenix at such a young age," Grindelwald spoke to Alexander with a big smile on his face as he looked at the two new partners with a look full of gratification.