It’s not really spelled out in the books, but Albus Dumbledore’s relationship with Gellert Grindelwald turns out to be one of the most powerful and tragic love stories in Harry Potter.
It is difficult to replicate in real life, though, not least of all because I like my boyfriend’s sister a lot, and also, I don’t believe in genocide.
However, I can see that the real Dumbledore-Grindelwald relationship test is about how you weather a truly polarizing conflict. The problem is that my boyfriend and I don’t really fight about much — not because we have anywhere near the perfect relationship but because he is so chilled out that he barely has a pulse.
I spot my moment when the idea of going to see The Martian at the movies comes up, and I put up a brief and half-hearted fight about whether or not I want to go, given some of the things Matt Damon has been saying lately. This dispute lasts for about five minutes before I agree that real-life silliness should not lessen my enjoyment of The Martian. I then love the film and spend two hours afterwards raving about the science in it until my boyfriend is probably ready to kill me over that.
In conclusion, it feels like Albus and Gellert could’ve just tried harder to resolve their differences without anyone dying, though I acknowledge that they had bigger issues to contend with than whether or not Matt Damon should keep his thoughts to himself.
