Why had "Lockhart" suddenly come looking for Shawn?
When it came down to it, Shawn had only himself to blame.
One day earlier.
In the top-floor office at Nurmengard.
Grindelwald held Shawn's latest letter, reading it slowly.
Purple Shadow flew back and forth around the office, chirping shrilly to urge the nasty old man to hurry up with his reply. The bird still had to get back and play hide-and-seek with Fawkes.
Purple Shadow could now use Apparition, so letters were delivered straight into Grindelwald's hands, without a detour through a nearby base of Grindelwald's Army.
Seeing that the old man was ignoring the bird, but not daring to provoke him, Purple Shadow could only land on the frame of a crooked piece of brush calligraphy hanging on the wall.
The brushwork was truly ugly. It read: There is no right or wrong, only victory or defeat. There is no good or evil, only survival.
Shawn still couldn't communicate freely with Purple Shadow, so he had come up with another wild idea: teaching the bird to read. It was quite an ordeal for the poor bird.
Perched on the frame, Purple Shadow studied the calligraphy for a while and recognized only the same word three times: "is," "is," "is."
Grindelwald's piece of calligraphy was the conclusion he and Shawn had reached after many discussions about right, wrong, and where people stood.
It wasn't particularly original, but it was brutally frank.
Shawn had also explained the universe's dark laws to Grindelwald, leaving the old man utterly astounded for a time.
Suddenly, all humanity's struggles over its little patch of Blue Star seemed terribly small and childish.
Fortunately, Grindelwald had a resilient mind. He understood that only by grasping the present could one look toward the future.
Someone more easily swayed might