While Rolf was happily teaching Luna, Harry and the Weasley family were accompanying Mr. Weasley in the hospital. Voldemort was also preparing for their Christmas with his Death Eaters, although it was a little bit...
That's weird.
But after all, they are also human beings and they also have to celebrate the holidays. And they all have families, so in fact they also have to spend Christmas with their families.
However, there is one person who has no family, although he claims that all Death Eaters are his family. But only he and the Death Eaters know whether this so-called family is real family or slaves.
So Christmas is here, and the Death Eaters are all going to spend time with their real families. So who will be with their master, of course another lady who has lost her family, even though she has now turned into a snake.
And she also completely lost her memory as a human. At this time, she, or it could only remember what happened after she completely turned into a snake. And she regarded Voldemort as her only family.
In fact, Voldemort treated Nagini completely differently from other Death Eaters, or to put it simply, he treated the snake much better than he treated the Death Eaters.
Death Eaters would be severely punished for making mistakes, but he was much more tolerant towards Nagini. He even chose to make Nagini one of his Horcruxes.
In other words, to a certain extent, he directly shared part of his life with Nagini, making it a part of his life.
From this point of view, Voldemort valued Nagini very much. As this festival was approaching, Voldemort chose to let all the other Death Eaters go home, leaving only Nagini to accompany him.
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In fact, there are three places that Voldemort can call home, one is Gaunt's old house, one is his father Tom's house, and the other is the orphanage where he grew up.
But in fact, the place he truly calls home is Hogwarts, the school. This is the place where he learned magic, and it is the only place he regards as home.
He once tried to stay here and become a professor at Hogwarts. Of course, he also had his own selfish motives. He hoped to spread his ideas while teaching students at Hogwarts.
Unfortunately, the principal at the time thought he was too young and rejected him. Later, when Dumbledore took over as principal, it was even more impossible for him to become a professor at Hogwarts.
After his second application was rejected, he placed a curse on the position he wanted to hold. Since then, there has never been a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts who can teach for two consecutive terms.
But what surprised him was that the effect of this curse seemed to be too good. It even had an effect on himself, even though he was only attached to Quirrell's body at the time.
Obviously, the curse regarded him as a part of Quirrell, and then he equaled Quirrell, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, and the cursed object.
Then all kinds of stupid things started to happen one after another. No matter what he did, he didn't go well, and he couldn't do anything. Finally, he was put away by a group of young wizards who were still studying.
He even had a premonition that because he did not die, the curse was still following him. In fact, after his curse, every Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts died or fell into the trap of life.
A situation worse than death.
In fact, even Voldemort himself was not sure how effective this spell was. He just chose the most vicious one from the ancient curses he had learned.
The only way to lift this curse is for the caster to die completely. Unfortunately, he never thought that this curse would actually fall on him.
Then he is trapped in an endless cycle. As long as he does not die, this curse will always exist. And as long as this curse exists, he will continue to die or be worse than dead.
In fact, he may have realized this in the original book, so after he took control of the Ministry of Magic, he did not directly serve as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, but found a Death Eater as a scapegoat.
Then the scapegoat was really cursed, and ended up with an extremely miserable end. But that's all for another day, and it's what happened in the original work.
Now Voldemort suspects such a thing, but does not know whether it has happened. After all, people who have been cursed hardly feel any discomfort and can only analyze it through encounters.
Even Dumbledore could not confirm whether this curse existed. He could only make speculations and constantly select new Defense Against the Dark Arts professors to replace those who had accidents.
Therefore, at this time, Voldemort was not sure that the curse had affected him at all, but was still arrogantly planning his dark plan to rule the magical world.
And Nagini became the only one he could confide all his secrets to. After all, it was his Horcrux, and it knew a noble language that only it and he could understand: Parseltongue.
The most important thing is that it will never betray itself. Those Death Eaters are not as reliable as they say. Even if some of them seem loyal, they cannot be completely trusted.
Wizards cannot be completely trusted, but Nagini is different. He can trust it completely. So Nagini became Voldemort's only confidant, and he would tell it all his secrets.
Especially when the Christmas holiday came, he drove away all the Death Eaters. Including the homeless Death Eaters, he asked them to find a place to take them with them.
Only Nagini was left to accompany him, and then he stroked its snake head and began to tell it about his ideals and his distrust of other Death Eaters.
There is also his own past, and the future he wants. Nagini, who has completely transformed into a snake, is not able to understand what he said.
But it would still rub its snake head against his body and tell him that no matter what he wanted to do, it would help him achieve his goal.
And this feeling is exactly what Voldemort lacks. To a certain extent, maybe even Voldemort himself doesn't know what complicated feelings he has for Nagini.
But sometimes there may be no need to explain it clearly, because they only need each other's companionship and loyalty. In fact, this is the only unswerving loyalty that Voldemort can truly obtain.