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  ten years separates hokey’s ory and this one, ten years durg which we can only guess at what lord voldeort was dog  ” harry got to his feet once ore as dubledore eptied the st ory to the pensieve
  ”whose ory is it?” he asked ”e,” said dubledore
  and harry dived after dubledore through the shiftg silver ass, ndg the very office he had jt left there was fawkes sberg happily on his perch, and there behd the desk was dubledore, who looked very siir to the dubledore standg beside harry, though both hands were whole and undaad and his face was, perhaps, a little less led the one difference beeen the present-day office and this one was that it was snog the past bish flecks were driftg past the dow the dark and buildg up on the outside led
  the younr dubledore seed to be waitg for thg, and sure enough, onts after their arrival, there was a knock on the door and he said, ”enter”
  harry let out a hastily stifled gasp voldeort had entered the roo his features were not those harry had seen er fro the great stone cauldron alost o years ago: they were not as snake-like, the eyes were not yet scarlet, the face not yet asklike, and yet he was no lonr hand to riddle it was as though his features had been burned and
  red they were waxy and oddly distorted, and the whites of the eyes now had a peranently bloody look, though the pupils were not yet the slits that harry knew they would bee he was wearg a long bck cloak, and his face was as pale as the snow glisteng on his shoulders
  the dubledore behd the desk showed no sign of surprise evidently this visit had been ade by appotnt
  ”good eveng, to,” said dubledore easily ”won39t you sit down?”
  ”thank you,” said voldeort, and he took the seat to which dubledore had stured — the very seat, by the looks of it, that harry had jt vacated the present ”i heard that you had bee headaster,” he said, and his voice was slightly higher and lder than it had been ”a worthy choice”
  ”i a gd you approve,” said dubledore, silg ”ay i offer you a drk?”
  ”that would be wele,” said voldeort ”i have e a long way”
  dubledore stood and swept over to the cabet where he now kept the pensieve, but which then was full of bottles havg handed voldeort a goblet of e and poured one for hiself, he returned to the seat behd his desk ”, to to what do i owe the pleasure?”
  voldeort did not answer at once, but rely sipped his e
  ”they do not call 39to39 anyore,” he said ”these days, 1 a known as —”
  ”i know what you are known as,” said dubledore, silg, pleasantly ”but to , i39 afraid, you will always be to riddle it is one of the irritatg thgs about old teachers i a afraid that they never ite fet their chars39 youthful begngs”
  he raised his gss as though toastg voldeort, whose face reaed expressionless nevertheless, harry felt the atosphere the roo chan subtly: dubledore39s refal to e voldeort’s chosen na was a refal to allow voldeort to dictate the ters of the etg, and harry uld tell that voldeort took it as such
  ”i a surprised you have reaed here long,” said voldeort after a short pae ”i always wondered why a wizard such as yourself never wished to leave school”
  ”well,” said dubledore, still silg, ”to a wizard such as yself, there can be nothg ore iportant than passg on ancient skills, helpg hone young ds if i reber rrectly, you once saw the attraction of teachg too”
  ”i see it still,” said voldeort ”i rely wondered why you — who are often asked for advice by the istry, and who have ice, i thk, been offered the post of ister —”
  ”three tis at the st unt, actually,” said dubledore ”but the istry never attracted as a career aga, thg we have on, i thk”
  voldeort cled his head, unsilg, and took another sip of e dubledore did not
  eak the silence that stretched beeen the now, but waited, with a look of pleasant expectancy, for voldeort to talk first
  ”i have returned,” he said, after a little while, ”ter, perhaps, than profesr dippet expected  but i have returned, nevertheless, to reest aga what he once told i was too young