"Mwuahaha, Mr. Potter, I have cornered you at last! Now I can kill you and become the ruler of the entire world! And everyone will remember you as Harry Potter, the boy who could not stop Lord Voldemort from becoming the eternal monarch of the universe! You will be the most despised person in all…."

All of a sudden Voldemort's face changed. It became lighter, and his face looked for human. His snake-like eyes became like a normal person's. His pale, white skin became regular.

"What was I saying?" he asked incredulously. "Please, Harry, forgive me."

"Uh… okay… I guess I forgive you…" Harry said slowly.

"What are you doing, Lord Voldemort?" asked Lucius Malfoy, Voldemort's most devoted follower, amazedly.

"Do not call me 'Lord', my dear Lucius. Being treated like a god is unfair to everyone else, and I would most certainly not want that to happen," said Voldemort kindly. Harry was staring at Voldemort, feeling like he was about to faint. How in the world could Voldemort, the most evil wizard of all time, bent of killing him and all Muggle-borns, become nothing more than an extremely friendly man dressed in extremely ugly robes?

All of a sudden, Crookshanks, Hermione's Granger's cat, sprinted across the room, which happened to be Dumbledore's old office. It hissed, at which Voldemort woofed happily. He ran after Crookshanks, at which Crookshanks was terrified. It hissed once more and ran out of the room.

Voldemort looked very disappointed. "I just wanted to play," he insisted over and over.

"Hmm…something seems very odd with Voldemort," murmured Ron to Ginny.

"No kidding," Ginny replied. "I'm just wondering how in the world Voldemort started acting like…like a dog? How could this have happened?"

From a corner of the room, Cinderella's godmother, invisible, chuckled to herself.