Voldemort discovered that he could not move his body at all.
This was not an effect any prohibitive magic he knew could achieve. He had strengthened his body through more than one method, and the Enchanted Body potion was merely one with relatively minor side effects and comparatively modest results.
As he understood it, mental block magic should have had no effect on his body. Yet now, he was truly under the other man's control.
And when Dismask said, "My hair wasn't used for nothing," he suddenly realized.
He had used Dismask's hair in his resurrection ritual.
The ritual magic that had helped resurrect him was an ancient magic, extremely old and extremely evil, which few people in later generations had studied. But Dismask was an exception. Necromancy itself was the very oldest type of magic.
And of all the types of magic, ritual magic was among those most closely connected to necromancy. Dismask had offered to help improve the spell and proposed a set of modifications.
Voldemort had done considerable research into ancient magic, though his knowledge of magic from the most distant past was somewhat lacking.
He knew even less about necromancy and ritual magic. But judging by his experience, Dismask's improvements should all have been beneficial.
Not only would they make his body and magic stronger after his resurrection, but they would also strengthen his soul. At the time, he had felt he needed all of that.
And after he used Dismask's modified ritual magic, things had indeed turned out just as he had expected.
His body was even a little stronger than it had been before his defeat, after he had taken the Enchanted Body potion but before he had strengthened it with other magic.
Voldemort had been extremely satisfied.
It had even given him a