Although Tom didn't want to stay with Wade, he also didn't want so so-called guardian constantly watching over him.
In fact, Tom, like Wade, was the sa type of person.
In the future, there would certainly be many little secrets he didn't want others to know.
The reason he wanted to be alone was actually the sa as Wade's.
Wade finally agreed to Tom's suggestion, planning to team up with him and escape from Dumbledore's "watchful eye."
Once they were free, they would go their separate ways.
For this, Wade had no objections. Even if he wanted to earn rit points from Tom, there was no need to be together all the ti.
After all, they would both be in the sa school and maybe even the sa house, so the opportunities to earn rit points from him wouldn't be any less.
Moreover, just like Tom, Wade also had many secrets that no one could know.
So, living alone was the best option.
After making their plan, the two of them went back to doing their own things.
After half an hour of working without interrupting each other, Tom suddenly asked, "Why didn't you accept Grindelwald's offer?"
Wade put down his Complete Guide to Transfiguration and asked, "Why do you ask?"
"I just thought about what Grindelwald said last night again. Don't you think... he actually made a lot of sense?"
Tom took a handkerchief and began carefully wiping his wand as he continued, "And if we had agreed to Grindelwald's offer last night, wouldn't we have been able to gain our freedom right away? We wouldn't have to rack our brains trying to figure out how to move out now..."
Wade chuckled. "You think he made sense? I think you were just attracted by his so-called 'knowledge and power.' You don't seem like the 'concerned for the world' type."
Tom's internal thoughts were imdiately exposed, and his face flushed red.
But he quickly regained his composure. "Putting aside his promises to us, the things he said were indeed very reasonable!"
"Look, we have great power. Those Muggles are weak and insignificant in front of us. Why should we hide and be afraid of them finding out?"
"In my opinion, it's natural for the strong to rule over the weak! We should be at the top of the world!"
"I really don't understand why Dumbledore wants to stop him."
Wade looked at Tom in surprise. "No way, Tom? You actually believe what Grindelwald said?"
Tom furrowed his brows and said, "Doesn't that make a lot of sense? Why wouldn't I believe him?"
Wade sighed and said helplessly, "The reason you think it makes sense is simply because he told you what you wanted to hear."
"What we wanted to hear?" Tom frowned.
"Don't you always think that you're special?" Wade asked.
"Of course!" Tom said proudly.
Wade leaned back on his pillow and said leisurely, "A lot of wizards think like you, believing that having magic makes them superior to Muggles. So, Grindelwald exploits that, starting to promote your uniqueness..."
Tom: "What do you an?"
"'Magic only blooms in the souls of a few,' such a moving phrase..."
"When you heard that, didn't it feel good? Didn't it make you think you were the most special group? Didn't it make you feel you should be above all ordinary people? Didn't you feel like the chosen one?"
"When you think like that, you've fallen into his trap. Because at that point, you'll feel that breaking the Statute of Secrecy is only natural, and to break the Statute of Secrecy, naturally, you need to join Grindelwald's side... and that is his real goal."
"When he invited us to join last night, did he ntion any of his ideological beliefs? No!"
"What did he say? He told us that if we joined his ranks, he would give us the power we desperately wanted!"
"Why did he only tell us about gaining power and not ntion anything else? Because he knows that you and I are still young, and we don't have any concept of changing the world, we're only interested in power."
"So, he only talked about power to lure us in... In other words, all the views and ideologies that co out of Grindelwald's mouth are not realistic; he's just saying what people want to hear and what others want to believe."
"His real goal is simply to find more supporters, to gather more loyal followers, and then help him reach the top of the world."
"As for what happens to the world, to other wizards, or to Muggles, he couldn't care less."
"In reality, he's not a revolutionary who truly wants to change the world; he's just an opportunist using revolution as a ans to fulfill his ambitions."
Tom felt a buzzing in his head, "..Do his ideas really have no chance of being realized?"
To Tom, what would happen to the world later didn't concern him either; he was just wondering whether what Grindelwald advocated could truly be realized in the end.
If wizards really could dominate the world, Tom would think it didn't matter, as long as he was one of the people standing at the top.
"It won't be realized. Even if it is, it can't last."
"As I said before, he is indifferent to the world, to other people. In other words, his ideals won't make the world better; they'll only make it more chaotic, more terrible!"
"So, when wise people realize this, they'll surely stand up to stop him, like... Dumbledore."
"Besides the opposition from these wise individuals... do you think, when the ti cos for a fight, Muggles will not resist?"
"Don't think for a second that all Muggles are weak and insignificant, just ants not worth worrying about..."
"Do you know how many wizards there are in the world, and how many Muggles there are?"
"Even if you're strong, how many Muggles can you really kill? And do you think the Muggle military is just a group of farrs wielding pitchforks?"
"Don't forget, the purpose of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy was not to protect Muggles... but to protect wizards from Muggles!"
"Believe , if Muggle-born opportunists learn about the existence of wizards, what they do will be a thousand tis more terrifying than what the Wizards could ever imagine!"
"So, Grindelwald's final fate will either be sealed by Dumbledore and these wise individuals, or he'll drag the entire wizarding world down with him to its doom..."
After hearing Wade's analysis, Tom fell silent.
Even though he looked down on Muggles, he knew that what Wade said was the truth.
In reality, even if wizards have superior individual combat abilities, they are not invincible superhumans.
Furthermore, not every wizard is strong... most wizards are not good at combat.
If wizards were really to go to war with Muggles, the best possible outco would be a mutual destruction.
The most likely outco would be that the wizards would have their wands confiscated, be reduced to Muggle experints, and then thrown into laboratories for dissection and study...
For most wizards, without their wands, how are they any different from above-average people? There would be a Hiroshima and Nagasaki incident with H and N being the wizarding world...
It can almost be said that, at the mont the war begins, the tragic end of the wizards will already be sealed...
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