On the second floor of the Dursleys' house, in Harley's bedroom.
After Peter Pettigrew escaped, Harley finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After returning from the Spirit World, she had planned that very night to use Voldemort to rally the Pure-blood families and start the Second Wizarding War.
That way, she could naturally put the Pure-blood families on the opposite side of ordinary wizards, then legally and legitimately use them to complete the series of rituals that followed.
After all, she was granting their wish.
Those Pure-blood families willing to follow Voldemort didn't want to attend the same school as Muggle-born wizards, did they?
She could help them return to the Oldest One, so they wouldn't have to attend the same school as ordinary wizards anymore. They wouldn't even have to breathe the same air.
Harley thought she was truly kind, granting their wish.
There were three key figures in her manipulation of Voldemort's actions: Peter Pettigrew, Lucius Malfoy, and Cornelius Fudge.
Peter Pettigrew's identity made sense. He could help Voldemort regain his body and provide him with a perfectly reasonable excuse for returning.
And her power had already begun to erode his body, so controlling him was effortless.
Lucius Malfoy, as head of the Malfoy family, was important too. Judging by the various bits of information she had pieced together, Lucius always stayed behind the scenes.
Even after Voldemort returned, there was a good chance he would lose Voldemort's trust because he was a fence-sitter and had lost a Horcrux.
But as the head of an important Pure-blood family, he would certainly be able to learn something about the movements of Voldemort's group.
What's more, his wife Narcissa Malfoy was the younger sister of Bellatrix Lestrange, one of the most important Death Eaters. She was also one of the