Functional Order: Ni/Te/Fi/Se
Dominant Function: Ni
Determined to force the word to conform to their ultimate vision, by using emotional appeals to gather mass support. Gellert Grindelwald is one such villain. Initially, he appealed to Dumbledore because of their shared desire to change the world together – but where Dumbledore saw his path as wrong and immoral, Gellert has clung to it, determined to make it a reality by uniting everyone into a “one world order” to eradicate Muggles, whom he sees as inferior. Grindelwald lives his entire life and makes all his decision based upon his self-built ideology, that if Purebloods dominate the Muggles, the world will be a better place – much like Hitler, he over-simplifies and “condenses” (seeking a single personal “truth”) global problems by finding a single root cause / people group to blame for all the evils he perceives in the world around him (which does not include himself). He uses this perception to create an ideology and dogma, which he sells to his followers; speaking of his “vision” for the future, and trying to escape the inevitable war. He sets events in motion in advance; his recruitment of Credence has been a “long game” to get the boy to kill Dumbledore, with his final reveal intended to turn him against the Hogwarts Professor. He laid down groundwork for all his schemes long before he took action, from his recruitment of a wizard in the Ministry to aid his escape from the aurors, to bringing all the main characters together at the end to make a choice between his twisted ideology and their principles.
Auxilliary Function: Te
He also sees the faun-like creature as a way to achieve ultimate power, through kidnapping it, killing it, reanimating it, and using it to convince the masses to believe in him—and when that fails, he has no other plan but to attack Credence for exposing the truth about him, inadvertently destroying the charm that prevents Dumbledore from coming after him. Gellert uses emotional tactics almost all the time—he manipulates Credence and makes him think that he’s useful and wanted, then turns him against Dumbledore. He recruits Queenie by lying to her about creating a world in which she can love whomever she chooses (even though he intends to destroy all Muggles), and then enslaves her by making her feel that she would be rejected if she went back to her loved ones (she’s tarnished goods now). He used emotional manipulation on Dumbledore as young men, and even now as older men (asking him, “Who will love you now?”). He uses fear against the masses to recruit them for his ultimate gain, knowing it will motivate them to join his side (the threat of the second world war). But he is also a remorseless sociopath who kills people, assumes their identities, and works within the Ministry to get what he wants, including breaking himself out of prison by ‘charming’ someone to trade places with him. Since he cannot kill Dumbledore, having formed a blood pact with him, Grindelwald seeks a child whose uncontrollable power could do it for him, and plants a seed in Credence’s mind that he owes his present unhappiness to his abandonment by the Dumbledore family. He is charming and forceful, but also callous – he sees those who help him as cannon fodder. The lizard who helped him escape from prison gets thrown out a window a thousand feet up for being ‘too needy,’ Credence gets summarily dismissed at first ‘because I thought you were worthless,’ and a Muggle family is killed without remorse so he can squat in their house with his followers, including their toddler son.
Tertiary Function: Fi
Grindelwalds masterplan is motivated by his own feelings of superiority and dreams of being accepted as a wizard. While he appears cold and completly unemotional on the surface, he seemed to have formed an earnest love for Dumbledore and wants him to stand by his vision. Apart from Dumbledore however there a few people he genuinely cares about and he treats most of his followers rather coldly. He has a strong, but very wicked moral compass that is completly against everything the current wizard wolrd stands for and tries to impose these values on everyone by force.
Inferior Function: Se
Grindelwald prefers to work from the back and carefully scheme his way to power, but he can be incredibly daring if needed, shown in his highly dangerous escape from prison. He is also sometimes caught of guard and to caught up in his vision to see what is right in front of him, resulting in Leta Lestrange almost killing Jim, when she betrays his trust.
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