The Next Consumable
Hiss.
A rare, all-black basilisk snake slowly crawled through the garbage dump. Its mouth was large, and its forked tongue kept extending and retracting, as if it had smelled its favorite food—rats.
The next second, it raised its head high, and then—in a flash, a fat rat appeared in its mouth.
Strangely, the rat did not resist.
It's important to know that as the only venomous snake among the three native snakes of Britain, its venom, while deadly, does not inject large amounts of venom at once, nor does it attack repeatedly like other venomous snakes.
Logically, this rat should have trembled more violently under the stimulation of a mild venom.
However, this serpent lacked human Wisdom, and driven by its appetite, it quickly and impatiently swallowed the motionless mouse whole.
As a black light flashed from its belly, the magic most compatible with snakes began to revive.
Then came a tiny wisp of white gas, indistinguishable from the surrounding fog.
"Hiss hiss hiss hiss (I thought I was really dead)!" The snake's eyes, which had just been filled with appetite and ambition, suddenly regained their Wisdom light.
Voldemort felt very unlucky.
He was clearly just going to find a reclusive old man to inquire about the possible Elder Wand.
It all started after he took over Fenrir Greyback's body.
Fenrir Greyback was a homeless man, and Voldemort found a report, along with a photograph, at Fenrir Greyback's current temporary residence—the home of a Dark Wizard Fenrir Greyback had killed.
Voldemort didn't know which newspaper the report came from.
Because that page was simply torn out.
But that photo—it was Lucius Malfoy, grinning maliciously, holding up a wand that looked quite impressive.
The above guesses suggest that the wand is the legendary Elder Wand.
Voldemort was overjoyed. With Harry Potter so powerful, Dumbledore still alive, and a part of his soul betraying him, how wonderful it would be to have a wand that was said to grant invincibility once wielded.
Having regained a temporary physical body, he quickly found the old wizard who had sold the wand using his profound magic and clever mind.
But then the nightmare began, leaving him in his weakest state ever.
This prevents him from even choosing temporary, shrunken hosts like rats or snakes.
Snakes are the perfect match for his magic; when he uses snakes as hosts, he lives the longest and his magic recovers the fastest.
But at that time, he had no choice. This left him with no choice but to be swallowed by a snake in order to transfer his host.
But none of these are the most terrifying things.
The most frightening thing is that he is now almost losing something—that is, confidence.
Although reason tells him that he is immortal and has plenty of time.
However, the younger version of myself in Hogwarts was also like that.
He also had Dumbledore's help.
Moreover, the wizard who called himself Kamen Rider but was dressed Muggle was the main reason that shook his confidence.
That person, like his name Kronos, can stop time.
At first, Voldemort thought it was a composite spell similar to Petrificus Totalus and the disappearance of surrounding sounds.
However, it wasn't until he used the Killing Curse that he realized it might actually be true.
The Killing Curse, which no spell could counter, was actually stopped!
His most powerful spell!
No wizard dares to confront this curse!
Stopping time seems simple enough for a wizard.
After all, they both invented Time-Turner that could travel to the past.
However, Voldemort knew perfectly well that time had never been under the control of wizards.
The Time-Turner was only made possible by a peculiar type of sand from ancient Egypt.
No wizard could touch that sand directly.
Moreover, although it possesses the power of time, it is itself very fragile.
An Incendio could easily melt and destroy it.
His knowledge of this subject stems from his research during his youth.
That's how he came to realize just how remarkable that person, that Kamen Rider, the guy who used the name of the Kronos, God of Time, truly was.
Moreover, it seems that Muggle techniques were used on that prop.
Does this mean he's outdated?
Now he realizes that he is just an old man, an old man abandoned by time.
In a future where magic is developing rapidly, there might be a way to break the magic that allows one to rely on their immortal body.
However, this also means that the wand in Lucius Malfoy's hand must be that legendary wand.
After all, such a powerful and unheard-of wizard has appeared!
"Hiss hiss hiss hiss (I must make a comeback as soon as possible)!"
Driven by fear of the future, Voldemort set his sights on one of his former subordinates— Antonin Dolohov.
He was the strongest and most ruthless wizard among all his subordinates.
It is also a consumable that can temporarily restore him to his peak condition.
Dolohov was in Azkaban, and under the oppression of the Dementors, he was powerless to resist Voldemort's intrusion.
After possessing the body of this powerful wizard, he could easily gather his followers in Azkaban using whatever resources he had on Azkaban.
The Dementors were nothing more than his servants.
After occupying this isolated island, he could easily send his trusted confidante Bella to gather the materials for his resurrection. Once truly resurrected, he could then rally his troops and attack Malfoy Manor.
Take down the Elder Wand.
To occupy the Ministry of Magic.
After capturing the Ministry of Magic, they took all the people inside hostage.
Then he can develop it slowly!
Hiss hiss hiss hiss (Hahahaha)!
Just as Voldemort was looking to the future, two hundred miles away, a boy Harry Potter suddenly woke up from his dream.
Harry lay stiffly on the bed, panting heavily as if he had been running. He woke with a start from a very vivid dream, pressing his hands tightly to his face.
Beneath his fingers, the lightning-shaped scar burned as if someone had just pressed a hot metal wire against his skin.
He sat up, one hand covering the scar, the other groping in the darkness for his glasses on the bedside table.
He put on his glasses, and the scenery in the dormitory gradually became clearer. The bright moonlight outside the window shone through the window, casting a hazy, silvery-white soft light over the dormitory.
Harry touched the scar with his fingers again; it still hurt terribly.
This felt exactly the same as when I first saw Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest.
After he inexplicably overcame it, he felt a sensation he thought he would never experience again in his life.
"Harry!" Harry rolled out of bed, his heart nearly leaping out of his chest at the murmurs of Ron in the next bed.
He looked at Ron, who was in his sleep, Ron legs twisted around the blanket, calling his name repeatedly.
"What would Rita Skeeter do if she saw this?" Harry couldn't help but wonder.
He understood once again why some people thought his relationship with Ron was inappropriate.
The next chapter will be posted later.