Chapter 328: Marionette
What do you do when your enemy is more perfect than you, better than you, more talented than you, stronger than you, harder than you, more patient than you, better than you? When your enemy is a perfect tireless genius, and you have the confidence to fight him? Albus Dumbledore once said that Voldemort will not rest! Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange, Barty S. Crouch II, what they are following is not a waste, but a real moment that is working hard, ready to spread fear to every corner of the world, the Dark Lord.
If you haven't faced the Dark Lord head-on, you'll never understand that despair. It's like being a demigod and never knowing. In the face of an invincible enemy, if there is no way to ensure invincibility, what other choice is there but prayer? The infinite universe is a pond after pond embedded in countless membranes, and we have nothing to rely on except to strive forward and persevere.
We are not the Emperor of the Universe, let alone the center of the universe, we are just a small group of wizards living in a small world after all the demon gods died in the end of the era. Even if Voldemort worked so hard, day and night, in his short sixty years, even in the eyes of the demigods, he was just like dust, not to mention those real demon gods whose lifespan was in epochs.
Some wizards believe that the establishment of an advanced system can change the fact that the wizarding world is now about to die. This is one aspect, of course, but the more important aspect is that the study of magic by wizards has stagnated. As we have emphasized before, wizards can master this extremely advanced magical civilization, and can use magic to cure diseases, use magic to increase and shrink space, use magic to transform matter, and even partially time travel.
We've already discussed how Voldemort could use the Time Hourglass to avoid being wiped out by Lily's spell, even if Bellatrix Lestrange or Barty Crouch Jr. could use the Time Hourglass to go back to before Voldemort was defeated, and warn Voldemort when he entered the High Cyrus Valley to avoid his destruction.
But Voldemort did nothing, and his stupid men would rather torture the Longbottoms, or let the Aurors capture them, rather than find a time turner to change all that. Some wizards will blame fate for all this, believing that if Voldemort's fate is forcibly changed, someone else will stop it.
It has been rumored that someone is trying to stop Voldemort from attacking the Potters from the future via a time turner to prevent them from losing power. Later, they were stopped by another wave of power, and in the end, both sides failed, the James Potters were killed, and Voldemort also lost his power, and became a state of inferior geism. (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)
Eventually, Sybil Trelawney, a professor of divination, won the eventual victory, killing the Dark Lord by cursing her, and destroying the Potter family by the way.
Voldemort, the Order of the Phoenix, and the entire Ministry of Magic have become puppets on the stage of fate, with no choice but to walk pathetically to their own gallows, and then meet their own tragic fate. But is this really the case? History has no ifs, everything will not repeat itself, and since the demigods have obtained almost immortal life, why do they continue to pursue the final step and become the real demon gods?
As Gellert Grindelwald had realized, one day in the future, wizards may face threats not from up and down, from the left and right, and from any other place around, but from the past and the future.
Mordred has traveled through the corridor of time to the present world, a messenger of doom returning from the future, Xie An thinks that he has taken on the responsibility of saving the world, but the picture of hell in his body is precisely the key to unlocking the power of destruction. Destroying the enemy through fate, directly attacking the enemy's past and future through the so-called cause and effect, in order to achieve the goal of destroying the present enemy, such a terrible attack is more cruel and terrible than the life-seeking spell used by any wizard, and if the so-called fate itself is also a weapon, the entire wizarding world has been nailed to the bull's-eye, just waiting for the final arrow to come and be smashed to pieces.
Fortunately, just as the realization that they may have been created as a weapon, it can explain why wizards like to kill, knowing that the so-called fate is just one of the mysterious powers that the demon god once mastered, and the demigods are always thinking about how to truly control their own destiny on the road of absolute freedom, without any cause and effect, and without falling into reincarnation.
It's a pity that until now, neither the strongest demigod Tang, nor the founder of the Vermilion Bird Magic School, whose whereabouts have been unknown, and Queen Anne, who has just reached the realm of never retreating, have not found a way to break through, and it seems that the door to true eternity has been closed forever.
And under this group of demigods are Tom Riddle, Gellert Grindelwald, Albus Dundedon and Nick Lemay. They do not yet realize that fate is just one of many terrible weapons, but simply believe that fate is unchangeable. Sybil Trelawney, the professor of divination, once drunkenly said to Harry, "We are just bystanders, we can't do anything."
But Sybil Trelawney forgets the example of her great-grandmother, the source of her divination bloodline: Sandra Trelawney sinned against the gods, who themselves cursed her and gave her the ability to see the tragic future, but could do nothing.
The true gods wield a weapon called fate, and they often use this terrible weapon to trick ordinary wizards. Those later geniuses who were born non-gods, the Witch of Jaca, Mamon, and Don all longed to gain this ability. It's a pity that now the world has fallen into the age of magic, the era of becoming a demon god, and there is no going back.
However, this is a problem that only the top wizards need to consider, and for ordinary wizards, changing their fate is actually very simple, as long as they pick another option when choosing. After listening to Hagrid's description, Hermione Granger already knew what a good student Voldemort was, but unfortunately he himself had fallen, and there was no wizard such as Albus Dumbledore to guide him with all his might and help him on the right path, just like any ordinary gangster, Voldemort inevitably fell further.
After graduating, instead of going to the Ministry of Magic as everyone predicted, he started at the grassroots level, but instead opted for a similar exploration job as Bill Weasley, who was the spell solver at Gringotts, and Tom who worked for the Borgin Burke store in Tumbledown Alley, where his job was to search for valuable items and get them at the lowest possible price. This was certainly not the ultimate goal of the desire to gain awe and affirmation for Voldemort, who founded the Voldemort Order within a decade of leaving Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
I'm afraid that Hermione Granger plus Harry Potter and Ron Weasley can't do this. The D.A. Army may be slightly comparable to the prototype of Voldemort's organization, but many of them suffered a heavy blow in the face of Dolores Umbridge's deliberate sabotage. The structure of the D.A Army is far inferior to that of the Order of the Phoenix, and there is still a big gap between it and the organization of the Death Eaters.
At his age, Voldemort's genius was unparalleled, and he not only had good grades but was also charismatic, easily appreciated by all wizards. Even Albus Dumbledore had to admit that he was an extremely good wizard. But he finally succumbed to the shadow of fate, and according to the arrangement of fate, he went to a dead end, and after madness, he finally perished.
Fortunately, after the First Wizarding War, Voldemort was forced to reflect in the Black Forest for more than ten years, and after being reborn, he also began to gradually get rid of the irritable temper inherited by the Gaunt family, and became more and more calm. It's a pity that after years of planning, Albus Dumbledore was no longer the magic principal he was at that time, and he teamed up with Gellert Grindelwald, two top veteran wizards, in Little Hangleton, and finally killed Voldemort again.
If it weren't for Voldemort's premonition and taking Nagini with him, maybe Voldemort would have been severely injured at this time and would never even recover.
All failures stem from a lack of strength. When Voldemort realized that Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore had no chance of winning after joining forces, Voldemort became even more sober. He knew that he was not facing ordinary wizards like Lucius Malfoy or Severus Snape, he was going to fight against the whole of Wizarding England, and all kinds of powerful people hidden in it, if he couldn't easily solve it even with one Albus Dumbledore, then it would be a dream to rule the whole of Europe, or even just wizarding England.
Under such circumstances, Voldemort began to further desire for greater power. The Reverse Horcrux he stumbled upon was his biggest reliance at the moment. However, most of the seven Horcruxes are missing, and it is undoubtedly extremely dangerous to directly enter Hogwarts head-on at this time. Gellert Grindelwald wanted to feel Hogwarts from Europe, and it could take only a few minutes.
Eroding Harry Potter's brain was also Voldemort's last resort. Although he had modified and implanted many wizards' memories before, and he had fun using them, it was still too difficult to operate through strange inductions between Horcruxes at such a distance. Fortunately, Harry Potter was completely defenseless and unaware of the shadows in his brain.
If he could devour the Horcruxes in Harry Potter's body and fuse the soul fragments, Voldemort believed that his magic power would reach a new level, and he would have the ability to escape even in the face of Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dundedon.
After the failed invasion, Voldemort had to turn to another Horcrux. But the whereabouts of the other Horcruxes are now mysterious. He inquired about the whereabouts of Lucius Malfoy's diary, and the idiot actually said that he had lost it! Voldemort had done a trick on this subordinate on the spot, and if it weren't for the fact that the Malfoy family still had some effect, Voldemort would have killed him.
The crown was hidden in Hogwarts by himself, and it was still too dangerous to enter the castle at this time. The current whereabouts of the ring are unknown, and the pendant is also missing. Aยท B stole it, and for a while Voldemort didn't know who it was. Finally, I remembered the cup that was given to Bellatrix Lestrange for safekeeping, but Bellatrix Lestrange had just inexplicably lifted the magic pattern formation in her body some time ago, and now Voldemort couldn't directly track her whereabouts.
Voldemort needed help to find Bellatrix Lestrange, and the Death Eaters were now too targeted. Whether it is the Ministry of Magic or the Death Eater Hunters in the shadows, the Tang Organization is always keeping an eye on them, and if the intention is discovered, Bella may never be able to find them again. After thinking about it, Voldemort remembered the vampires who were extremely powerful among Muggles.
In the country of Bern, the Alps are like a dragon entrenched on the earth, high on the top of the mountain, the snow does not melt in all seasons, and not far away Mont Blanc towers into the clouds, and the clouds are shrouded in mist. In a valley more than 300 kilometres from Mont Blanc, an old castle is built on a cliff. This is the legendary Land of Twilight.
A dark mist flew swiftly in the cold wind, and the four seasons in the valley were like spring, and some small things in the trees and grasses were terrified by the black mist. Black Mist showed no interest in the critters, and after skimming across the land, he quickly rose towards the Twilight Fortress on the cliff face.
In the Middle Ages, the Twilight vampires were once very powerful, and they were one of the Church's worst enemies at the time, along with wizards. But later, with the gradual reduction of the strong among the vampires, the new prince-level vampires have not been born, and after the elites die in the war, they cannot be replenished in time, which makes the high-end combat power of the vampires decline rapidly.
It is rumored that the reproduction of vampires mainly depends on the transmission of high-level vampires to new vampires through bloodlines, but I have never heard of vampires automatically evolving into more advanced vampires. It's not like a wizard or a church. A wizard with good talent, hard training, and enough knowledge of potions can break through his own limitations and become a first-class wizard, but a vampire, no matter how hard he tries, he can't break through the shackles of his own bloodline. As the focus of the Church's attack on the enemy, the vampire's high-end combat power has died one by one, and in the last few hundred years, it has even reached a dangerous situation of cutting off the bloodline. In such a situation, the vampire is slowly becoming wary of his former allies and wizards.
As the power of the Church weakened among Muggles, vampires and wizards alike were given a respite. After parting ways with the wizard, the vampires immediately go all out to solve their problems, but hundreds of years later, the Twilight still can't create atavistic vampires. In desperation, he can only find another way, hoping to strengthen himself by absorbing the blood of the strong. This is where modern vampires and Death Eaters come into play: Death Eaters are responsible for supplying the blood of powerful wizards, and vampires act as thugs.