章 41: Bitter.
While everyone at hogwarts and the manor were doing great some people weren't doing so well. Dumbledores popularity had dropped to almost rock bottom. All sorts of accusations kept rising up in the daily prophet just smearing his name through the mud. Stealing from hogwarts for his own needs, kidnapping the Potter heir and losing him, gringotts had filed reports of him stealing money from multiple people including the potters vaults, he was broke, him and Snape were basically roommates at this point in time.
Snape wasn't having a good time of it either. Accusations of ruining years of potential healers and aurors by the daily prophet had made him enemy number one. Him and dumbledore were being called the worst thing to ever happen to wizard education of all time.
Molly Weasely was also very unhappy. Her deal with dumbledore for the Potter fortune had crumbled around her feet. The marriage contract had been thrown out. The money she had received from the Potter vaults over the years was taken away and she was banned from the bank. They had to close down the weasley family account and Arthur was furious if she hadn't been dosing him to the gills in potions he probably would have left her. There was also no signs of Harry Potter anywhere. He had basically just taken his lordship and vanished off the face of the planet.
Worst of all if he somehow showed back up and told people what happened she could be charged with line theft and thrown in Azkaban or he could declare a blood fued and legally be able to hunt her or her family down as lords have that right. But she didn't worry about that too much as he was only a child and didn't even have proper training from what dumbledore says.
Ron had been paid to try to keep an eye on Harry Potter when he came to school but he never showed up. This was something none of them had expected. The daily prophet was quick to blame dumbledore for this aswell. Their hero which was in stories all over the community read to children wasn't in England. Ginny was distraught over this news for years she had been brainwashed that she was going to be the wife of Harry Potter. And now he was nowhere to be seen.
I knew all of these things and was just biding my time.
The other infuriated person would happen to be Voldemort. He had heard the news of all his death eaters dying one after another. Even the ones who had fled England were being hunted down. Worst of all he had no idea who had done it. The body he had possessed had served its purpose. He had wanted to use one of his horcruxes to resurrect himself and gain a new body but when he went to find the easiest one, his ring. It was gone. He went was beyond furious and slaughtered many people that day. His next stop was the cave of his childhood. He had picked up a muggle and was using him to drain the potion only to find out that the locket was also gone. The lestranges and Bellatrix were supposedly dead so he had no way to get the cup. And the ward at hogwarts we're too strong for him to bypasse without getting killed or noticed. He had tracked down Lucius and found out that he no longer held onto his diary. It had either been taken of left behind when he fled England. Lucius died a gruesome death for that.
He was out of options. He could do the ritual involving his fathers bones and the blood of an enemy to gain himself a living body and keep Nagini. But someone had desecrated his fathers grave and taken the bones. So his only other option was to absorb Nagini and quirrel for a new body.
All he knew was that he had an enemy that knew everything about him and was thwarting him every step of the way. The only person who he could think of was dumbledore. Without the protection of hogwarts to increase his power and with surprise on his side. Voldemort has started to hunt down the old man.
Using my special tracker and some old scrying magic I had watched almost all of this happen. I had personally dug up the bones of old Tommy's father to see exactly what would happen and the results did not disappoint me. What came next was truly a masterpiece of art.
Snape betrayed dumbledore to old Voldemort when he saw his mark return. I mean who would you choose? I powerful dark lord with a new body or a old man with waning power who had nothing to offer you? The answer was obvious to Snape.
He sold out dumbledore faster than toilet paper in a virus epidemic. He got double his money aswell when Voldemort killed off molly weasley who was screeching about money in his home. It was like Christmas had come early for the greasy git. That was until Voldemort turned on him as well and hit him square in the chest with a killing curse.
That shocked even me. But I had to give the snake faced bastard a round of applause. It was a good show. After the killing Voldemort looted the place and did something actually wise. He retreated to gather forces and silently build up his power. A wise move on the dark lords part. He even got rid of the bodies of those he killed. No marks of vanquished foes or anything just a silent killing in the night. Perfectly executed.
This little move of his cascaded things into a totally unforeseen way. It was like a movie you really loved being remade and then the director goes and does a surprise ending. A good surprise ending at that.
This is the kind of stuff that's fun to watch.
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