The Wizards & The Time Jump

Part 2

Sarah was the first to open her letter. It was very neatly written in a type of handwriting she hadn't seen in years, Grindelwald's. But why would Gellert Grindelwald be writing Sarah a letter after all these years?

Sarah turned the letter over and there was a navy blue wax seal closing it. The seal had 'GG' written on it, possibly meaning 'Gellert Grindelwald'. Sarah ripped open the envelope carefully and pulled out the pieces of paper within it. There were numerous pages inside the envelope and all of them were written in Gellert Grindelwald's handwriting addressed to Sarah Mitchell. As Sarah read through some of the letters she noticed a theme. The man who wrote these thought she was dead...

One of the letters said:

Dear my departed lover,
I'm so sorry, I wish I was a better man to you. I hope you will forgive me one day for my evil ways, and I hope that one day we could raise our own little boy together.

Sarah looked up and gazed at her son then back to the letter. As Sarah looked down the page, she could see tear marks on it which probably meant Grindelwald was crying while writing this.

"Mummy, please may I open my letter?" Gellert asked politely.

"Yeah sure." Sarah was half paying attention to Gellert while reading the remainder of the first letter.

Gellert walked over to the living room and sat on the sofa. Gellert was very excited to receive his letter as he had never received a letter before. The letter was a black envelope with white writing on it as well as a red wax seal. He looked at the front of the envelope first, the way they addressed the letter was very odd.

Gellert Mitchell

House near the pathway,

Mykonos, Greece

"What an odd way to address a letter to someone." Thought Gellert before turning it over and ripping the envelope open.

He pulled out the letter which was inside. It read:

Dear Mt Gellert Mitchell

Us at Durmstrang Institute for Magical Learning have heard a lot about you and would like to offer you a place with us at our school. At DIML we will teach you all there is to know about dark magic including how to create it and how to fight against it. If you do not take up our offer to join our school you will very much regret it as we only offer our school to the most gifted of children. Please be sure to visit our school on the 2nd of February 2000 to ensure your place for September.

Yours faithfully, Durmstrang.

Gellert was very confused about this letter, He knew he was a wizard but he never thought for one second that he was also one.

"Mum?" He asked.

"Yes..." Sarah was still busy reading Gellert's fathers letters.

"Am I a wizard like you?"

"Yeah, probably, you're a pure-blood."

"What does that mean?" Asked little Gellert walking over to his mother. "And what are you reading?"

"It means that your mum and dad are also wizards...oh and letters from your dad."

"Oh ok...wait what? My dad? I thought he died when you were pregnant with me."

"So did I, his wrote us letters but I'm not sure why, all of the letters are about him thinking I'm dead."

"Why dead?"

Then there was a knock on the door, it was Sarah's friend from work, Anastasia.

"Hiya guys?" She let herself in.

"Hi Annie, Guess what! My dad has wrote us letters and I've been invited to a special magic school!"

"A what school?" Asked Annie looking puzzled.

Sarah quickly jumped up from her chair and shoved the letters into her pocket. "His just being silly..."

"No I'm not, look." He passed the letter to his mum. "It's real mum."

Sarah quickly changed the subject after looking at the letter , "Hey Gellert, why don't you get read y for your Greek lesson, I need to quickly go to the post office...Are you ok to look after him while I'm out Annie?"

"Yes sure."

"Alright, see you soon."

Sarah made a run for it to town. The town had changed a lot since she's lived in Greece, when she first came here in the later 1920s the only things here were market stalls. Now there is a proper modern town centre, there is a shopping mall, a post office and many branded shops such as McDonalds and Apple. Sarah ran all the way to the post office and went inside. She sat down at a table and took a pen and some paper from a shelf and started to write back to Grindelwald. She wrote:

Dear Gellert Grindelwald,
I'm not dead, please don't believe any lies anyone has told you. I still live in Mykonos with our child. Our son is 10 years old now and has received a letter from Durmstrang this morning. Please till me that you didn't apply on behalf of him. I wanted our son to live a semi normal life with me and only me, not learning dark magic from a stupid school. Come home Gellert please, meet your son. I've told him stories about you. He loves and he looks just like you. Please visit us!
Love Sarah Mitchell

She then took a stamp and envelope from the counter and posted the letter into the post-box outside of the post office.

Sarah then jogged back home again and went to visit Gellert while he was having his Greek lesson.

"Ok now say, 'geia, to onoma mou einia Gellert' Said Annie as Sarah walked though her door.

"Ok, geia, to onoma mou einia Gellert"

"Good job Gellert. That means 'Hello, my name is Gellert'. Annie looked at her watch and saw that it was getting late. "I need to go now but I'll see you later."

"Ok, bye Anastasia."

Before Anastasia left she spoke to Sarah outside the house when Gellert couldn't hear.

"He keeps talking about a random magic school, what does he mean?"

"It's a silly game he liked to play, he thinks his a wizard. His only joking around when he says it." Said Sarah awkwardly.

"Ok if you're sure, see you later."

"Bye Annie."

Once Annie had left Sarah came marching back into the house and told Gellert sternly about what not to say around Muggles.

"Annie and probably 99.999% of the people who live in Mykonos are Muggles, Gellert, so don't talk about wizard things while they can hear you."

"But I received my letter from them, did you read it?"

"Yes but I don't think it's a good idea for us to go."

"Why? Cause daddy went there and he hated it."

"Really?"

"Yes, they threw him out cause he was naughty and you don't want to be thrown out of school for being naughty, do you?"

Gellert shook his head. "But I've never been to a school before, this could be my chance to make friends."

"What do you mean? Real friends? You have real friends, Annie, me, Deacon..."

"But they aren't really my friends, you even just said that I can't talk freely in front of them."

"Yes but that's because wizards like us are different." Sarah tried her best to explain it all to him but he didn't understand.

"I want daddy here, I bet he would understand." Gellert then started to cry and ran to his bedroom and slammed the door shut...