"Pustules..." Serena Pendragon picked up the wine jug and glanced at it. "Good thing you're staying here and using that analogy with me..."
"If you were outside, and someone happened to take a sip of eggnog while listening to that analogy, I think he'd probably be so disgusted he'd throw up."
"It doesn't matter..." Gellert Grindelwald replied. "An imagination that rich is an impressive ability in its own right."
He went on, "The existence of these cases is like the existence of those annotations in books. They're prepared specifically for people who can't understand the book."
"Annotations in books?" Serena Pendragon sounded a little surprised. "Why do I feel like that analogy of yours... sounds like something Vizet would say?"
"It was just a passing thought." Gellert Grindelwald answered casually. "The reason I used to only read the papers Albus published in Today's Transfiguration..."
"Was mainly because... the papers Albus wrote were interesting enough. I felt that same kind of interest in the set of books Vizet wrote, Magical Harmony."
"Besides, don't forget... Vizet is the candidate I have high hopes for, so you don't need to be that surprised. At most, you can only say I'm a picky person, not someone who only reads Albus's papers."
Serena Pendragon shrugged. "Explain it however you like. I don't care..."
"Let's return to the point." Gellert Grindelwald leaned forward, like a beast coiling itself to pounce on prey.
"Reports about Muggles dying from taking excessive potions have grown more and more frequent lately. There have been ones about Felix Felicis, and ones about Baruffio's Brain Elixir..."
"Mm, I saw them." Serena Pendragon asked, "Is there a problem?"
"No problem. All I can say is that the Magical World's habitual laziness... saved them." Gellert Grindelwald smiled as he spoke, mockery brimming at the