Proposed solution to the Percival Graves debate of is Graves alive or has he been killed off screen because everyone involved in producing this shit is a disaster despite the fact that like the entire cast and audience have a collective crush on Colin Farrell and love him to pieces:
I present to you, the Greebo Solution. I’ll hand over to the master wordsmith himself, so as Terry Pratchett puts it:
Greebo’s overall attitude is best described in an allusion to Schrödinger’s cat: Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious. Shawn dived sideways as Greebo went off like a Claymore mine. “Don’t worry about him,” said Magrat dreamily, as the elf flailed at the maddened cat. “He’s just a big softy.”
And now, fellow Graves followers, kindly picture Graves being neither alive nor dead but instead Bloody Furious, going off like a claymore mine while Newt tells people not to worry about him because he’s just a big softy.
picture it
I take your idea and raise you this
So basically what you’re saying is that Grindelwald dropped Graves into a vat of radioactive chemicals and thought that would kill him but instead it turned him into a superhero
Because
I can get behind that
It all boils down to this : Throw me to the wolves, and I’ll come back leading the pack.
For example :Grindelwald throws Graves to the wolves (literally) and Graves is tortured, beaten up and turned - but the very first thing he does upon turning into a werewolf is challenging and killing alfa. And comes back leading the pack.
Or - Grindelwald gives Graves to a vampire friend of his- to be a playtoy- and Graves is tortured and molested, but the first thing he does after turning is killing his master (for the first time in millenia of vampire history)
Or- Grindelwald sends Graves into freaking galaxy far far away and Graves comes back with a freaking lightsaber instead of a wand and chops Grindelwald into pieces
Or- Grindelwald simply leaves Graves to starve to death only for Graves to get out the moment he is thin and bony enough for shackles to simply slid off his hands.
Or- Grindelwald curses Graves with some rotting-from-the-inside curse but Graves remembers legends from the Eastern Front and fights it, and turns into a zombie - well, nothing really zombie-like about him other than being super strong, super fast, impervious to avada kedavra and all sorts of weapons and a newfound taste for brain matter.
Or- Grindelwald sends Graves to the future to “experience the perfect world where Grindelwald won and wizards rule the universe” only for Graves to find the world being as it was 100 years ago, Grindelwald dead and him actually listed as Percival Scamander in a Wizarding World People magazine. So he drags himself back through time to stop Grindelwald AND to find out who the hell this Scamander is and how the hell did he manage to talk Graves into taking his last name.
No matter what Grindelwald throws at Graves, no matter what torture or wicked spell or curse he employs, Graves doesn’t die- not because he is so strong, not because he is so set to win, but simply because he is too fucking stubborn to let some bleached piece of sh@t to kill him.
I don’t care what JKR and Co think about real Percival Graves - my Graves is very much alive and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
“Grindelwald sends Graves into freaking galaxy far far away and Graves
comes back with a freaking lightsaber instead of a wand and chops
Grindelwald into pieces“
