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Hello, everybody, View from Point of View Channel!

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Seeing me in this dress obviously means I'm gonna tell another story about the magical world of Harry Potter.

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Harry Potter's die-hard fans must be really excited right now.

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Because Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindewald is about to show.

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I don't know whether you're excited or not, but I am.

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So, I think the name Grindewald, despite being mentioned in the main story,

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is present only in the last book.

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I think the 7th one is not re-read by much, comparing to the 1st or the 2nd.

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So, today, I'm gonna tell you the story of Grindelwald.

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Who is he? How important is he? Why must there be a sequel named after him?

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[Grindelwald by Point of View]

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Gellert Grindelwald was a very powerful dark wizard,

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even before the era of the darkest wizard, Lord Voldemort.

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This Grindelwald had caused a few global-scale catastrophic events.

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His deeds shaped the wizard world as we know it,

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and almost turned the world upside down, only if something hadn't happened first.

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But first, let's hear about the story of his life.

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From birth and through childhood. How did he grow to be this dark wizard?

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Up until now, which means before the film comes out,

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we don't know how he grew up. We only know that he might be a pure blood, or a half-blood,

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meaning he grew up in a normal wizard society.

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He attended a wizarding school called Durmstrang.

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Remember when they had a triwizard tournament, there were three schools in the competition.

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Durmstrang was one of them, with Viktor Krum as the representative.

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If you ask what Durmstrang's reputation is,

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you might remember that in the novels, Dreco Malfoy usually complained that,

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"I don't wanna study in Hogwarts anymore! I wanna be in Durmstrang,

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"because in Durmstrang, you don't have to study defense against the dark arts. You get to study dark arts."

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That means Durmstrang was reputative about its dark arts course.

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Grindelwald got to learn a lot about dark arts there,

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and he showed to be an outstanding student in his class. One could say he's a genius.

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Also, he was very interested in a thing called 'the Deathly Hallows.'

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Many of you should remember the sign consisting triangle, circle and a straight line.

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Let's just not get into details and say that it means Elder wand, resurrection stone and invisibility cloak.

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It is believed that whoever possesses all three objects will be the Master of Death.

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Grindelwald was so obsessed with this. He wanted to be the Master of Death.

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He got so obsessed that he used the Deathly Hallows symbol as his personal symbol.

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After studying in Durmstrang until he's 16,

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even Durmstrang, a school that knew dark arts well, still felt that Grindelwald was too dark.

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Because Grindelwald had done an unknown experiment on someone in the school,

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he was expelled at the age of 16.

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When he was expelled, he carved the Deathly Hallows symbol on the wall of the school, and it's been there since then.

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It seems that now you can go and take a picture of this tourist attraction, just to be in trend.

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Just kidding!

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Expelling Grindelwald didn't help, though, because he was already smart.

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He had more knowledge than what the school could ever give him.

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And now there's no more rules to keep him down.

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So, he turned to studying the dark arts by himself.

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He started with going to Godric's Hollow.

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Remember this place? It's Harry Potter's birthplace, where his parents lived.

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They believed that it's the home of the first owner of the invisibility cloak.

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After watching every Harry Potter film, we have come to know that this is correct.

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The owner of that cloak was Harry's ancestor, who had been living there for a long time.

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There, Grindelwald had a relative named Bathilda Bagshot.

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She was the one who wrote the history book that Harry had to study.

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Moreover, she was Harry's parents' neighbour.

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You might remember her as the one possessed by Nagini in the 7th book.

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She was Grindelwald's relative, and he went to live there with her.

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As you might expect from someone who wrote the History book, her house consisted of so many books.

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Grindelwald read all of them, gathering knowledge so that he could find the Deathly Hollows and develop his skills.

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Godric's Hollow was also a residence of another important person,

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that is, Albus Dumbledore. His house was located there.

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Back then, Dumbledore was an orphan who lived with a younger brother (Aberforth) and a younger sister (Ariana).

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Dumbledore's sister was bullied by muggles, causing her a mental breakdown.

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She became unstable, always ready to burst out her magic power and cause chaos.

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That's why their father took revenge on the muggles,

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and that meant jail for the father.

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So, their mother stayed and cared for the three siblings,

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until one day the sister bursted, killing the mother.

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So, Dumbledore became the head of the family, while his inside was traumatised.

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When these two met, as two people who were both smarter than their own age,

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they became friends right away, and hung out all day all night.

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They had a lot in common

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They were both interested in the Deathly Hallows.

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Dumbledore thought that 'if I get to be the Master of Death, my life will be better,

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'because I can use the resurrection stone to solve my family problem.'

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While Grindelwald wanted to be the Master of Death so that he would be able to control Inferi,

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or the walking dead of the wizard world. He wanted to make the army out of them.

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Even though the two didn't discuss this issue, they had one common interest,

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which Grindelwald persuaded Dumbledore to believed.

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He asked 'why should the wizards and witches hide from muggles?

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'We are smarter and more powerful. Why don't we govern those who are inferior to us?'

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Dumbledore had to agree, because he himself also hated muggles for ruining his family.

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That's how Dumbledore came up with the phrase 'For the Greater Good.'

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He believed that they sometimes had to use force to make things better.

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If one had to sacrifice for the greater good, they must do it.

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And Grindelwald used that phrase as his personal slogan.

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They continued to be good friends, until one day they agreed to travel the world together,

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to seek for Elder wand, resurrection stone and invisibility cloak.

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Could Grindelwald go? Of course, but he wanted Dumbledore to go with him.

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Could Dumbledore go? No! Because he had to take care of his sister and brother.

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If he took his sister with him, it'd be like carrying a time bomb.

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He couldn't just leave his sister to his brother.

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Being a teenager, Dumbledore obviously hated that he had to take this responsibility.

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Eventually, they argued. Alberforth wouldn't let him go with Grendelwald,

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telling him that it's a bad and villainous idea, to go and rule over muggles.

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In that event, Grindelwald, being a dark arts lover he was, got mad and tried to curse Alberforth.

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When Dumbledore saw that, he turned to fight Grindelwald instead.

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So, the three were fighting, while an unstable girl sat there and watched.

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Then, a curse defected and hit Dumbledore's sister, and she died!

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She died, just like that.

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Dumbledore promptly blamed it on Grindelwald, saying that he killed the sister.

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That forced Grindelwald to flee from Britain.

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After that, he went to gather his power and respect from places,

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staying true to his ideology that he'd take over the world.

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Along the way, he acquired the Elder wand by stealing it from a wandmaker called Mykew Gregorovitch.

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He cursed the guy with the stunning spell and stole the wand from him.

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This totally changed the perception about the Elder wand.

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It was believed that this wand was the most powerful wand, and whoever owns it will have additional powers.

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And this wand can only change owner by killing the old one.

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However, the way Grindelwald took it made everyone realised that you don't have to kill,

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you can just win it.

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After acquiring the wand, Grindelwald wrecked chaos all over Europe and the US.

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He barely escaped from the hands of the US Ministry of Magic.

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This was where the first Fantastic Beasts film began, with Grindelwald disguised as a person in the ministry,

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met Newt Scamander, and searched for Obscurus, a child with contained magic.

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Grindelwald saw that it would be a pathway into showing the magic world to the muggles.

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His main purpose was to reveal the magic world to everyone,

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and that he'd rule over them.

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I'll not go into details, so just skip over to the end, where Grindelwald was captured,

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and then jailed in the US.

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This is not a spoiler, since all the 7 books have already told you about all this.

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It's just that they go into more details.

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What we know from the books is that after the capture, Grindelwald managed to break out.

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And he brought chaos all over the places for many years.

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Eventually, people turned to Dumbledore, saying that he's the mightiest wizard,

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and he might be the only chance to stop Grindelwald.

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Dumbledore had always tried to avoid it, and if you want to know why,

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it seems that Dumbledore later admitted it to Harry.

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He said that, in the night when they fought, Grindelwald must know that whose curse killed Dumbledore's sister.

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Dumblerdore was afraid that Grindelwald would expose that it was Dumbledore's own spell.

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However, Dumbledore, being a transfiguration professor at Hogwarts at that time, had to take responsibility,

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and so he went to fight Grindelwald.

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They had a dual, and it's been said that the dual was the biggest one the wizard world has ever witnessed.

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Whoever waiting to see the 2nd Fantastic Beasts must be expecting this particular scene.

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After that event, Dumbledore won over Grindelwald, and locked him up in a prison.

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Grindelwald lived there until the last day of his life,

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which was recorded in the 7th book, where Lord Voldemort tried to find the Elder wand,

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and he broke into the prison, because he heard that the last owner of Elder wand was Grindelwald.

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So he went to find out where the wand was.

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In the prison, Grindelwald teased Voldemort.

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Voldemort thought that he'd encounter an old guy with no power, who's been in prison for over 40 years. He must be sad and pathetic.

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But when he arrived, he found that Grindelwald wasn't afraid at all.

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He was like, 'I have been waiting for you to come and kill me.'

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'I know about you and know that you want the wand, but you will not have it!'

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Grindelwald teased Voldemort until he lost his temper and killed the old man.

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That ended the life of the greatest dark wizard of his time.

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This is the story of Gellert Grindelwald as we know it from the Harry Potter novels.

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Hope this makes you watch the 2nd Fantastic Beasts with a better understanding.

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It's full of fun videos, both about Harry Potter and other stuffs too.

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That's it for today. See you soon!

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Actually, there's a rumour that hasn't been answered in either of the books.

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We know from J.K.Rowling that Dumbledore was gay.

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And it seems that there were something more between Dumbledore and Grindelwald,

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not just friends, but also a bit of a bromance.

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I don't know whether Fantastic Beasts will acknowledge this tension or not.

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You shippers can wait for the moments, while non-shippers are invited to watch how great these two were.

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In Harry Potter, Dumbledore was already old, and he couldn't compare to Voldemort.

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But this, they were of same age, must be real fun! I'm excited already!!

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