Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 476 Voldemort turns back into Ecclesia, seemingly thoughtful, but actually a huge trap!

Grindelwald is currently busy rebuilding his Saints' ranks and doesn't have much time or energy to get involved in Voldemort's expansion of power.

You can't just have a bunch of Death Eaters telling a strange dark wizard in a foreign land, "Their current leader is an ally of Grindelwald; following them is the right thing to do."

Would a strange black wizard from a foreign land believe it?

It is common knowledge among wizards from all over the world that Grindelwald is currently imprisoned in Nurmengard.

They are currently operating in secret. Even if Grindelwald personally comes out to win over unfamiliar dark wizards, without demonstrating the necessary strength, they may not be able to believe him.

Not to mention the Death Eaters who borrowed Grindelwald's name.

Another very troubling point is that Voldemort was not very willing to use Grindelwald's name when expanding the Death Eater team.

If a dark wizard joins them because of Grindelwald's name, would these new recruits be considered Voldemort's or Grindelwald's?

Despite Voldemort's seemingly generous attitude in front of Grindelwald, where she appeared willing to hand over her Death Eaters to him, she actually valued the power she held in her hands quite highly.

In Voldemort's original plan, she and Grindelwald were equals, and ideally, those whom Grindelwald and the Saints recruited, including the Saints themselves, would obey her orders.

But now, that's clearly not the case.

Voldemort now wants to recruit more Death Eater newcomers to strengthen her own power base, so that she can have a greater say when she joins forces with Grindelwald and avoid being kicked out by him.

Therefore, considering these four reasons, Voldemort's current rate of expansion is exceptionally slow.

Her main way of recruiting new people now is to repeat the same old tricks she used to use when she gathered some half-blood and Muggle dark wizards in the British wizarding world. If she couldn't persuade them with words, she would have the Death Eater squads swarm in and forcibly capture them.

Once a Death Eater squad had gathered a group, they would contact Voldemort herself through the Dark Mark and use the Transcendental Key to allow Voldemort to teleport down.

Voldemort himself had a "heart-to-heart talk" with the newly captured people, using a carrot and stick approach—no, not carrot, but a pie.

With a big stick and a big pie, they wield the big stick to demonstrate their power and intimidate the newcomers, while using words to paint a rosy picture of the future and create a pie, thereby turning the captured dark wizards into new Death Eaters.

Unexpected events occur from time to time during this process. These include being pursued and intercepted by the Auror crime-fighting team and white wizards from various countries, as well as situations where one side gets caught in a double-cross and ends up breaking their own teeth.

Voldemort can no longer Apparate and put out fires as nimbly as she did in the British wizarding world.

She doesn't possess Dudley's or Dumbledore's clone magic, nor does she have Dudley's supreme teleportation ability.

Some Death Eater squads that have angered powerful dark wizards can only hope for the best.

Besides the setbacks in expanding her business, Voldemort is now also facing the problem of discontent among her core supporters.

Shortly after Voldemort faked her death, she followed Grindelwald's advice and changed her appearance back to her original form.

This "original appearance" does not refer to the original owner of the body, Alecto Carlo, but to the beautiful and charming Eclairs herself.

Voldemort was originally Ecclesia.

Now that Voldemort's identity is faked, she doesn't plan to use that identity anymore and going back to being Ecclesia is the right thing to do.

But when Ecclesia returned to her true self, she discovered that her old crew—the corrupt pure-blood Death Eaters of the British magical world—could not readily accept her new look.

Eckeris brought out a formula she had used in the past, which Grindelwald had also recommended she use.

He used the physical mutation as an excuse to appease his Death Eaters.

It is said that in order to complete her faked death and to reduce the attention of the White Wizards, she had to use a dark magic that would cause her body to mutate again, thus creating that shocking self-destruction.

This physical transformation was so intense that it turned the bald, red-eyed, noseless, and grotesque old man into a young, beautiful, and graceful woman.

Ecclesia revealed to her old crew that although she had become a great beauty, she was still Voldemort at heart.

Her skills remain the same, her personality remains the same, and her attitude towards everyone remains the same.

What can the Death Eaters say about this?

Of course, they would shout that their master was righteous and had sacrificed a lot, and that he looked quite good now, and so on.

But these words were spoken out of respect for Erkris, who was still a powerful figure who could hold their lives in her hands. The Death Eaters, who were originally from England, did not really believe Erkris's explanation.

The seductive dark energy rooted in the minds of the corrupt, pure-blooded Death Eaters of Britain inevitably began to dissipate once again.

The reason is simple: Erkris's appearance is not unfamiliar to these Death Eaters who come from the British magical world.

That was a former Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who had actually been featured in the Daily Prophet, and was even an external hire of Dumbledore.

Knowing this information, how can anyone still believe the claim of physical abnormalities?

Since it is a mutation, it is uncontrollable and goes against one's own will. In this case, how did their master, Lord Voldemort, precisely mutate into the appearance of an existing foreign witch?

This is not reasonable at all!

If the claim of physical abnormalities was fabricated by their revered master to deceive them, then what is the truth?

Was it that Lord Voldemort's body had transformed into that foreign witch named Ecclesia, or... from the very beginning, were they not following the real Voldemort who had been resurrected, but rather the witch named Ecclesia disguised as Voldemort?

This is absolutely terrifying to think about!

These pure-blooded, decaying Death Eaters knew Voldemort's true sexual orientation. The fact that Voldemort was able to get along so well with Bellatrix showed that Voldemort acknowledged his male identity.

For a man who loves women, even if he is a ruthless and unconventional man, it's already outrageous enough that he can accept that his body has become curvy.

Considering Voldemort's disregard for appearance, the Death Eaters, who knew him well, could barely understand.

But now, Voldemort has completely transformed into a woman, yet he remains calm and even seems to be in a better mood than before. This seems a bit unreasonable, doesn't it?

Moreover, the woman Voldemort transformed into was so beautiful, which is quite inconsistent with Voldemort's past persona of not caring about appearance and even hoping that his appearance could frighten people.

The corrupt, pure-blooded Death Eater from England felt increasingly uneasy and a chill ran down his spine.

You have to understand, for this Voldemort they have now lost their home, their family members and descendants, and their ancestral wealth and fortune...

Now they realize that they may have been deceived from the very beginning.

Voldemort was not actually Voldemort.

This is simply... the sky is falling!