Couldn't end this way
An awkward alternative ending of CoG. Spoilers, obviously.
He scrutinized the young wizard, his trophy from Paris. Now, only a few more words and a wand, and the boy'd be won over for good.
He was about to step closer to the obscurial when he heard the Floo activate. From the flashes of green flames stepped out a wizard, one he had known so well, one he had never intended to battle openly. One who was now grinning at him, confident that now he couldn't be thrown out of the castle.
Why else would he be wearing their blood pack token on a necklace?