The Blood Agreement

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With my blood, I swear my life to the judge and his jury to the end, in the pain of torture and death. Blood Pact Type Magical Contract Fixing Effect Creates a magical bond between two people by sharing blood [source] A blood pact (unknown incantation) is a kind of binding magic agreement between two parties who share their blood. It could be done by parties that cut off their hands with their magic wands and intersmail them and take the oath they desire. In this way, two drops of burning blood would come out of the palms of their hands and mix into one. Then a vial has to take shape around it, surrounding the drop, which means that the deal has been concluded. However, the terms of the pact would not prevent Dumbledore from defeating Grindelwald for good many years later in 1945. It is not known what the consequence of the breakdown of the pact should be and how they managed to circumvent it if they had actually succeeded in destroying the blood pact by then. Newt gave Dumbledore his supporters of the blood pact at Hogwarts The Blood Oath (hungarian: verszerzed, « blood contract ») was, according to tradition, a pact between the leaders of the seven Hungarian tribes, traditionally considered the first unwritten constitution of the Hungarian nation. Its history, with its terms, is best known from Gesta Hungarorum, a somewhat unreliable chronicle written between 1196 and 1203 and which can therefore be influenced by the laws and customs of the 12th century. The oath was sealed by the seven leaders – Elmos, Eld, Ond, Kond, Tas, Huba, and Teh-um – by cutting off their arms and leaving their blood in a cup. Becoming blood brothers will probably have traditionally been used to seal exceptionally strong oaths, and there must have been several similar oaths, but the phrase « blood-envy » generally refers to that of the seven leaders. The description of the swearing-in ceremony reflects the political and social changes of Anonymus` lifetime. The growing power of the nobles and their need to codify their rights culminated with the edition of the Golden Bull of 1222.

Several historians have concluded that anonymus` intention to write this agreement was to express social changes during his own period and to support the struggle for the rights of the nobility as a kind of historical justification. The aim of Magister P. (Anonymus) is to justify the rights and claims of the Hungarian nobility of the 13th century and to create a lineage that goes back to the conquest of all his friends and family. Although Anonymus points out that his works are based on written sources, he wanted to create a literary work in the style of his own time. [4] According to contemporary sources, similar blood-likenesses were common among nomadic peoples, similar to Hungarians, such as the Scythians. Herodotus described a scythic ritual in which « a large bowl of earth is filled with wine and the parts to the oath, which were slightly injured with a knife or an anchor, drop some of their blood into the wine; then they throw themselves into the mixture of a scymite, a few arrows, a battle axe and a spear as they rehearse prayers; Finally, both parties each drink a train from the bowl, as well as the captains among their supporters. [3] [page required] Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald entered into a blood pact in which they vowed never to fight each other – probably as a surety failure to ensure that, in their great will to trigger the revolution between magic aggregations and non-magical aggregations, they should ultimately predominate the first to mark an era of sovereignty over the latter to disintegrate. Albus and Gellert direct them in the same way as unique leaders, without the magician being smaller or taller than the other. [2] [1] Until 1927, Grindelwald still had the vial of this pact to protect him from Dumbledore, so that Dumbledore could never attack him directly. [3] However, the pact worked both ways and was therefore a double-edged sword, for while protecting Grindelwald from Dumbledore, it itself prevented Grindelwald from personally eliminating Dumbledore, the greatest threat to his cause.