For ten years, he had clung to life by possessing snakes in the Albanian Forest. If his followers were truly so loyal, someone should have gone looking for him long ago.
But another possibility soon occurred to Gerald.
Perhaps these people he had thought were diehard followers had never been loyal to Voldemort himself.
What they revered was merely the ideology of pure-blood supremacy and enslaving Muggles. Voldemort just happened to have become its most powerful and most extreme spokesman.
Voldemort's death did not mean that the ideology of pure-blood supremacy had disappeared.
These Death Eaters could still fight for their shared beliefs after Voldemort's death, just as Grindelwald's Saints had continued operating in secret after Grindelwald was imprisoned.
As he considered this, another thought surfaced in his mind.
Wait-
These people weren't necessarily all Death Eaters.
Although the Death Eaters and the Saints differed considerably in their beliefs, they were in complete agreement on pure-blood supremacy.
The Death Eaters sought to establish the absolute rule of pure-blood wizards through fear and violence, while the Saints sought to change the relationship between wizards and Muggles through revolution and ideology. But both believed that pure-blood wizards should stand at the very pinnacle of the world.
If they had joined forces to kill Sirius Black, who had put Peter Pettigrew in prison and was himself a blood traitor, it would make perfect sense.
After all, in their eyes, a supporter of the Dark Lord like Peter Pettigrew was certainly defending pure-blood interests, while Sirius was a traitor who had betrayed the pure-bloods.
No wonder so many people had turned up. No wonder those three had shown such disgust toward the Weasley family.
Because in their eyes, the Weasley family were blood traitors too.
Boom!
A violent explosion on the battlefield quickly snapped