Gellert Grindelwald
Gellert Grindelwald is the Dark wizard whose 1945 defeat by Albus Dumbledore is recorded on a Chocolate Frog card in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and a central figure of the Fantastic Beasts films.
Gellert Grindelwald is first named in a single line on a Chocolate Frog card, which records that Albus Dumbledore is renowned for defeating this Dark wizard in 1945. During Harry's school years he remains exactly that, a name from history, a defeated menace from the generation of the world wars, cited whenever Dumbledore's achievements are listed. Decades earlier, he was a brilliant, charismatic Dark wizard at large in the 1920s, pursued by magical law enforcement across Europe and America, and drawing followers with a persuasive vision of what the wizarding world could be.
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