What did Grindelwald value most when choosing followers...
That's right—strength.
In this respect, he was actually the same as Voldemort. Whether it was Rosier, Barty Crouch Jr., or Bellatrix, all had once been called prodigies, standing out among witches and wizards their own age.
But unlike Voldemort, who placed greater emphasis on loyalty and pure-blood status in addition to strength, Grindelwald valued intelligence.
He never lacked for loyalty, so he preferred clever witches and wizards with brains.
What Oren had done to Snape happened to fit his criteria perfectly.
"You want to see him, but he might not want to see you," Kyle muttered quietly.
"What did you say?" Grindelwald looked over.
"Nothing. You heard wrong," Kyle said casually, while recalling what Snape had just said.
Morris Oren.
The last time he had seen that former professor had been in a Gringotts vault. Oren had tried to control the goblins and enter the Lestrange family vault, but Kyle, who had been with him, stopped him.
Even if he had gotten in, he could never have found what Voldemort wanted. Still, Kyle was more than happy to do anything that caused trouble for the Death Eaters.
Besides, he had used that incident to squeeze tens of thousands of Galleons out of Gringotts. No matter how he looked at it, he had come out ahead.
Of course, that was only from his perspective.
From the goblins' perspective, they also had to add in the costs of repairing the vault and the tracks, as well as the adult dragon that had been let loose, whether deliberately or not.
That would make the figure even higher.
Bill had heard some rumors from his goblin friends. Supposedly, the goblins of England had once considered changing the slogan outside Gringotts.
Those long lines of warning that