Chapter 2: The Lake & the Ministry
Wormtail loosed the grip on his master's arm when they arrived at the lake. Voldemort walked towards the lake and looked into the water. There, on the bottom, he saw the naked body of Albus Dumbledore. The REAL Albus Dumbledore.
"Get him out of the water, Wormtail!" commanded Voldemort.
"My Lord, I don't understand. He was just in the water and you said…" said Wormtail, but he was interrupted by Voldemort.
"I SAID: GET HIM OUT OF THE WATER!" yelled Voldemort.
"Y-Yes, My Lord." stuttered Wormtail. He bent over and took the naked body of Dumbledore out of the water and placed it on the stone ground of the mountains.
Voldemort took the bottle with the special Polyjuice Potion out of his pockets and threw some of the toe nails from his previous body in the bottle. The potion turned into the most disgusting potion ever.
"Open his mouth!" commanded Voldemort.
Wormtail nodded and pulled the old man's mouth open. Voldemort bent over and poured the potion in the death man's mouth.
"Make him swallow it!" commanded Voldemort while standing up again.
"Y-Yes, My Lord." stuttered Wormtail and he moved the head so that the potion went into Dumbledore's gullet.
Immediately, the old man's body started to change. The beard disappeared, just like the nose. The face turned pale white and very soon Voldemort was lying there, naked.
"Drop him back in the lake now!" commanded Voldemort and Wormtail did as he asked.
After he was done, Wormtail looked back at his master.
"Now, what was this all for?" he asked.
"You'll see soon enough, Wormtail. Right now, I'm going to make my final trip before going back to Hogwarts." said Voldemort.
"Where are you going, then?" Wormtail asked.
"London." said Voldemort. He then apparated away, leaving Wormtail behind, alone and confused.
When Voldemort appeared again, he was in Whitehall, in London. There, he made his way past the Muggle ministry of Defence towards a red telephone box, ignoring the strange looking Muggles who were wondering who this old man in his long robes was. He walked inside, dialed the word "MAGIC" and the telephone box went down and landed into the atrium of the Ministry of Magic. Voldemort walked out and said to the receptionist: "I'm looking for Cornelius Fudge, the Ministry of Magic. Is he here?"
"Certainly, Mr. Dumbledore. He's in his office at the moment." said the witch at the reception. She continued: "Shall I lead you there?"
"No need. I find it myself."said Voldemort and he made his way over to the lift. Various wizards greeted him when he walked in and they asked him various questions, which Voldemort chose to ignore.
When he arrived on the right floor, he walked out of the lift and made his way to the minister's office. Fudge was standing outside of his office, talking to Rita Skeeter, who, presumably, had just done an interview with the minister.
"Cornelius. Miss Skeeter." greeted Voldemort. "I'm glad you're both here. I have something important to show you. Something that might possible end up on the front page of the Daily Prophet."
Those last words certainly got the attention of Rita Skeeter. But the minister was also interested.
"What is this "something important", Albus?" Fudge asked.
"The Dark Lord is death. His body was found in a lake in the mountains near Hogesmeade." Voldemort explained.
Voldemort arrived at the lake with Fudge and Rita Skeeter. Both of them looked into the water and Fudge said: "That certainly is the Dark Lord. No doubt about it."
"How did he die?" Rita Skeeter asked.
Voldemort arm in a firm grip and said to her: "Why don't I tell you…in private." He and Rita than apparated away. Fudge went back to the Ministry to announce the news of the Dark Lord's death to the wizarding world.
Voldemort and Rita appeared in the room of the Riddle house where Voldemort had changed into Dumbledore. Rita looked around, a bit scared.
"Albus, what is this place?" she asked.
"Your grave." Voldemort replied.
Rita looked at him in surprise and then Voldemort pointed his want to her and said: "AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Rita dropped on the floor. Voldemort looked at Nagini, who was hanging over the chair and said to her: "What do you think? Do you like it?"
"It will do." the snake replied.
"Then she is yours." said Voldemort.
Nagini hissed in pleasure and crawled towards the death body of Rita Skeeter and a short while later, the journalist opened her eyes, this time, the pupils looked very snake-like. Voldemort looked at her, while she was trying to stand up, and said: "Normally, now that you're in a human body, you should be able to talk like a normal human."
"Then let'sss try it. Oh, it ssseemsss that you're right." said Rita on a snake-like tone.
"Well, I'll be leaving now for Hogwarts. You make sure that my death is publiced in the Daily Prophet. Understood?" said Voldemort.
"Underssstood, Massster." said Rita and she made her way over to the fireplace, looked back at Voldemort one last time and said: "By the way, you look gorgeousss in your new body."
"I feel quite old as well." said Voldemort in reply.
"It might be an old body, but it'sss alssso a very powerfull one. And that'sss what countsss. Remember what you sssaid many yearsss ago? There isss no good or evil only power and thossse too weak to ssseek it." said Rita.
"And right I was, and still am." said Voldemort.
"Well, I'll be going now." said Rita and she threw some Floo Powder in the fireplace while saying: "Daily Prophet." She immediately disappeared in the green flames. When she was gone, Voldemort stepped in the fireplace as well.
"And now it's time for Dumbledore to return to Hogwarts." he said and then he dropped the Floo Powder while saying: "Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry." and immediately, the green flames swallowed him.