Lighter and Darker Shades of Gray

Set to die

Minny
"Sir? How do you know? It's not possible, for the effect would be much different, in the outcome would make a difference in the way that things turned out in the story of my grandfather. He has told me everything. How do you know? How do you know already? You haven't spoken to Snape yet. You are going to in a few minutes. I know how this goes. I have seen this story before. You need to understand that things are different than you believe them to be. Please professor. You need to listen. The people of the Darkside are coming to get you. You need to understand this," I explain, urgently to Dumbledore.
"Minny." He did not say it loud, nor sharp, it was only sudden. "there is no dark nor light, they're only lighter or darker shades of gray."
"That's not true, Professor! They're truly horrible people out there, and Waldemar is one of them. He is-"
"Sending the mail for a boy to kill me. I know things that many others do not. I understand you come back in time, that you may go to Hogwarts under my rules. Yet how flattered this makes me, I do not think that you'd want to come back to this time. The dark time. The time of need and injustice," he was talking very slowly, so that he knew I understood every word.
"Professor, Voldemort will die next year, only a year in seven days after you do," I paused. "I went to a class, in my time at Hogwarts, and it was called ODOV. Of Dumbledore and of Voldemort. You become legendary the moment that you die. You are a legend now, a living legend. You make Hogwarts the best place possible. That is why I came back to see you. I can always go back to my time. If I can see you. If I can talk to you. I can help teach the most important class at Hogwarts. Everyone is taking it. The younger kids, because they have to. The older kids, because they want to. You are Albus Dumbledore. The greatest wizard ever," I am tearing up, remembering everyone from my time. Waiting for me to come back.
For the first time ever, I see Dumbledore cry.