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• Lemon drops by Cassadix for fleur_despoir

  Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

  • Not Rated
  • Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  31 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald
  • Albus Dumbledore
  • Gellert Grindelwald
  • Aberforth Dumbledore
  • Original Muggle-born Characters (Harry Potter)
  • Tom Riddle | Voldemort
  • Voldemort (Harry Potter)
  • Young Gellert Grindelwald
  • Young Albus Dumbledore
  • Young Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald
  • Mentioned Ariana Dumbledore
  • Hogwarts
  • Nurmengard Castle (Harry Potter)
  • Fluff
  • Fix-It of Sorts
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Author Is Sleep Deprived
  • The Author Regrets Nothing
  • Canonical Character Death
  • Canon Gay Relationship
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Bittersweet Ending
  • Self-Indulgent
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Happy Ending
  • Eventual Happy Ending
  • Sad with a Happy Ending
  • English Is Not the Author's First Language
  • Afterlife
  • Happily Ever After
  • Sort Of
  • no beta we die like Albus
  • Out of Character
  • I Made Myself Cry
  • It was 3 a.m. ok?
  • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
  • Lovers to Enemies to Lovers
  • Lovers to Enemies
  • Enemies to Lovers
  • No Albus Dumbledore Bashing
  • Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald's Summer Together in 1899
  • Post-Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald's 1945 Duel
  • Post-Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald's Summer Together in 1899
  • Gellert Grindelwald Loves Albus Dumbledore
  • Albus Dumbledore Loves Gellert Grindelwald
  • POV Third Person
  • POV Gellert Grindelwald
  • Albus Dumbledore Dies
  • Good Gellert Grindelwald
  • Sort of? - Freeform
  • Bad Writing
  • Idiots in Love
  • 5+1 Things
  • except it's more than 5
  • Fuck J.K. Rowling
  • protect the dolls
  • Also fuck AI
  • seriously
  • keep it out of fandom spaces
  • You'll never see any ai on this account ew
  • do not feed my work to ai

  Summary

  A sort of canon compliant and sort of canon divergent (depends how you look at it, I guess?) one-shot, spanning from that fateful summer of 1899 up to Gellert's death in 1998.

  Aka every time Gellert mentioned lemon drops (he hates them, really, why aren't you believing him?)

  Language:

  English

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