Dumbledore did not think Douglas's actions would accomplish anything, and Douglas offered no further explanation.
They cast Disillusionment Charms and followed the road to the graveyard beside the church.
After searching for a while, they finally found the dilapidated Riddle Family grave.
Dumbledore asked in puzzlement:
"Are you planning to move old Riddle's remains?"
Douglas shook his head and said:
"No, I was wondering whether we could add something to them."
Dumbledore cautioned him:
"Douglas, if everything really is as you suspect, I think Tom will discover anything you add to the remains. He was his Potions Class professor's star pupil, after all..."
Douglas shrugged and said:
"Professor, I'm not that foolish. In the distant East, there's a saying: attacking the mind is the best strategy.
I want to leave a message for him here. When he sees that room full of writing, then sees what I've left here, how do you think he'll react?"
Dumbledore suddenly fixed Douglas with a sharp gaze and said calmly:
"If things really unfold as you predict, he'll feel that his life has been controlled. There is nothing he hates more..."
Douglas smiled, then used the same method to write "Bone of the father, flesh of the servant, blood of the enemy" on the back of the crumbling headstone.
Dumbledore stared at the words on the headstone for a long time without speaking. Then he waved his wand and wrote another sentence beneath Douglas's: "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
Douglas sighed softly. Although he had never been to Godric's Hollow, some books recorded that these very words were the epitaph on James Potter and Lily Potter's grave.
But he did not understand in what spirit Dumbledore was conveying these words to Voldemort-whether they were a final attempt at persuasion or