Pushing those feelings down Albus prepared for the final stage of his plan. It had taken him months to prepare. This entire year had been building to this one moment. The headmaster had suspected that this year might be the moment Tom tried something, he had always had a flair for dramatic timing and this had only grown with his madness. Having his return to power be in the same year that Harry Potter returns to the spotlight would be exactly his idea of irony and so Albus had prepared.