Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor's Office.
After Ian was seized outside Dumbledore's Headmaster's Office by Gilderoy Grindelwald, he had been brought here directly by the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor to wait, with no room for refusal. As for Gilderoy Grindelwald himself, according to what he had said, he needed to first take a look at what Dumbledore had found.
The exchange between the Headmaster and his old friend clearly would not be brief. Ian had considered sneaking back to his dormitory, but he was worried Gilderoy Grindelwald would go to the dorms and drag him back.
Ian cared greatly about whether he could keep his dignity. The incident of Snape taking him away in front of everyone during class that day had already become the subject of rumours. Heaven knew what secrets between him and Gilderoy Lockhart would start circulating if Gilderoy Grindelwald took him away from his bed in the middle of the night.
"What a dreadful night."
Ian stared at the tea Gilderoy Grindelwald had made for him. It sat in a simple yet elegant porcelain cup, its surface delicate and smooth, its glaze warm as jade and shining faintly. Such exquisite colour and texture clearly belonged to fine porcelain from an ancient Eastern nation.
The British Empire had always admired the East in its choice of tea and tea sets, but things like this were not commonly seen at Hogwarts or in many wizarding households.
Most wizards carried a sort of isolationist mental shackle. Grindelwald was clearly someone whose thinking differed entirely from that of other wizards in this regard. In this office, which looked as if it had been completely redecorated, there were not only tea utensils, but also quite a few items from many countries bearing cultural symbols.
Russian pine furniture, Persian