Keeping Graves somewhere he could escape or someone could stumble upon him is too risky. Instead, Grindelwald takes his memories so he can peruse them later at his leisure. He implants new set of memories to Graves, making him believe he is just ordinary No-maj, stashes him in some middle-of-nowhere town on the other side of the country, finds him some hopelessly boring job and just pops in every couple of days pretending to be cousin Gellert to collect some hair.
Skip few month and Grindelwald is captured. The whole of MACUSA is asking where is Graves? Grindelwald isn't sharing but slow tracing of his movements lead them to this small town where they find Graves. Who thinks they are bunch of wackos. Magic? Meh.
(or Alternatively Newt comes across him while travelling the continent while bringing Frank to Arizona)
Of course it turns out that to fix Graves they will have to do more than just wave a wand. He will need assistance of mind healer. But first they have to convince him to come with them or kidnap him (which is surprisingly difficult considering Graves doesn't even remember existence of magic).
It can be 5+1 format of times Macusa tried to bring Graves in.
Original!Graves, Amnesia
Skip few month and Grindelwald is captured. The whole of MACUSA is asking where is Graves? Grindelwald isn't sharing but slow tracing of his movements lead them to this small town where they find Graves. Who thinks they are bunch of wackos. Magic? Meh.
(or Alternatively Newt comes across him while travelling the continent while bringing Frank to Arizona)
Of course it turns out that to fix Graves they will have to do more than just wave a wand. He will need assistance of mind healer. But first they have to convince him to come with them or kidnap him (which is surprisingly difficult considering Graves doesn't even remember existence of magic).
It can be 5+1 format of times Macusa tried to bring Graves in.