“It is back, they will have noticed it… and now, we shall see… now we shall know. How many will be brave enough to return when they feel it? And how many will be foolish enough to stay away? But look! My true family returns.
[Others appear]
Welcome, friends. Thirteen years… thirteen years since last we met. Yet you answer my call as though it were yesterday… We are still united, then! Or are we? I smell guilt. There is a stench of guilt upon the air. I see you all whole and healthy, with your powers intact. Such prompt appearances!
…and I ask myself, why did this band of followers never come to the aid of their master, to whom they swore eternal loyalty?
…and I answer myself, they must have believed me broken, they thought I was gone. They slipped back among my enemies, and they pleaded innocence, and ignorance, and bewitchment.
…and then I ask myself, but how could they have believed I would not rise again? They, who knew the steps I took, long ago, to guard myself against mortal death? They, who had seen proofs of the immensity of my power in the times when I was mightier than any man alive?
…and I answer myself, perhaps they believed a still greater power could exist, one that could vanquish even me. Perhaps they now pay allegiance to another. It is a disappointment to me. I confess myself disappointed. Forgiveness? I do not forgive. I do not forget. Thirteen long years, I want thirteen years’ repayment before I forgive you.”
Voldemort – HPatGoF
sweet….