I really think that the puppet is outliving his usefulness. It's becoming more trouble than it's worth to keep him from getting killed, or at least, thrown into Azkaban. I was summoned to his home this afternoon, and had to watch as he amused himself by casting curses at his only House-elf, Dobby I think he said its name was. Then we went to Diagon Alley to purchase our school supplies. Of course, I had to listen to his whines about how he didn't have the money to buy the things he really deserved, since Potter and Granger had caused him so much trouble. He is getting dangerously unstable on the subject of the two of them, and it's only a matter of time before one of them kills him.