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The Two Brothers by Maeloc Wren (Flabberwink)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
01 Nov 2025
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Summary
Summer, 1899. Albus Dumbledore is seventeen, brilliant, and trapped in Godric's Hollow with two siblings he resents and a future that died with his mother.
Then Gellert Grindelwald walks into his life.
Gellert sees him. Really sees him. Not the dutiful son or responsible brother, but the mind underneath, hungry and wanting and willing to question everything. What starts as intellectual sparring becomes something more dangerous, desire that doesn't apologize, ambition that refuses limits, a connection that feels like finally being understood.
But Aberforth is watching. Ariana is unraveling. And neither Albus nor Gellert can see past each other long enough to notice the summer burning down around them.
Told in dual POV, this is the story of that summer. The arguments and the wanting. The tea and the touch. The brilliance and the blindness. How two boys found each other and lost everything else.
Day by day, until the inevitable end.Grindelwald is a joy to write totally present, I hope you enjoy my interpretation of his first meeting with Albus!
I don’t support JKR and her bigoted views.