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  to have i have e to you to ask that you perit to return to this castle, to teach i thk you t know that i have seen and done uch sce i left this pce i uld show and tell your students thgs they can ga fro no other wizard”
  dubledore nsidered voldeort over the of his own goblet for a while before speakg
  ”yes, i certaly do know that you have seen and done uch sce leavg ,” he said ietly ”ruors of your dogs have reached your old school, to i should be rry to believe half of the”
  voldeort39s expression reaed ipassive as he said, ”greatness spires envy, envy ennders spite, spite spawns lies you t know this, dubledore”
  ”you call it 39greatness,39 what you have been dog, do you?” asked dubledore delicately
  ”certaly,” said voldeort, and his eyes seed to burn red ”i have experinted i have phed the boundaries of agic further, perhaps, than they have ever been phed —”
  ”of kds of agic,” dubledore rrected hi ietly ”of of others, you rea  five   woefully ignorant”
  for the first ti, voldeort siled it was a taut leer, an evil thg, ore threateng than a look of ra
  ”the old argunt,” he said ftly ”but nothg i have seen the world has supported your fao pronouncents that love is ore powerful than y kd of agic, dubledore”
  ”perhaps you have been lookg the wrong pces,” ested dubledore
  ”well, then, what better pce to start y fresh researches than here, at hogwarts?” said voldeort ”will you let return? will you let share y knowled with your students? i pce yself and y talents at your disposal i a yours to and”
  dubledore raised his eye
  ows ”and what will bee of those who you and? what will happen to those who call theselves — or ruor has it — the death eaters?”
  harry uld tell that voldeort had not expected dubledore to know this na he saw voldeort’s eyes fsh red aga and the slitlike nostrils fre
  ”y friends,” he said, after a ont39s pae, ”will carry on without , i a sure”
  ”i a gd to hear that you nsider the friends,” said dubledore ”i was under the ipression that they are ore the order of servants”
  ”you are istaken,” said voldeort
  ”then if i were to go to the hog39s head tonight, i would not fd a group of the — nott, rosier, uldber, dolohov — awaitg your return? devoted friends deed, to travel this far with you on a snowy night, rely to wish you ck as you attepted to secure a teachg post”
  there uld be no doubt that dubledore39s detailed knowled of those with who he was travelg was even less wele to voldeort however, he rallied alost at once
  ”you are oniscient as ever, dubledore”
  ”oh no, rely friendly with the local barn,” said dubledore lightly ”now, to  ”
  dubledore set down his epty gss and drew hiself up his seat, the tips of his frs tother a very characteristic sture
  ”let speak openly why have you e here tonight, surrounded by henchn, to reest a job we both know you do not want?”
  voldeort looked ldly surprised ”a job i do not want? on the ntrary, dubledore, i want it very uch”
  ”oh, you want to e back to hogwarts, but you do not want to teach any ore than you wanted to when you were eighteen what is it you39re after, to? why not try an open reest for once?”
  voldeort sneered ”if you do not want to give a job —”
  ”of urse i don39t,” said dubledore ”and i don39t thk for a ont you expected to nevertheless, you ca here, you asked, you t have had a purpose”
  voldeort stood up he looked less like to riddle than ever, his features thick with ra ”this is your fal word?”
  ”it is,” said dubledore, al standg
  ”then we have nothg ore to say to each other”
  ”no, nothg,” said dubledore, and a great sadness filled his face ”the ti is long gone when i uld frighten you with a burng wardrobe and force you to ake repaynt for your cris but i wish i uld, to i wish i uld  ”
  for a send, harry was on the ver of sh