That he had been wrong was a bitter realization. Life was more complicated than Voldemort against Potter, than Light against Dark. He should have known this. He had used the factionalism natural to politics to grow his movement, both before his first uprising and for a year after his re-corporealization. He had then ignored it, assuming that there would once more be bystanders, Death Eaters, and the Phoenix people with the Ministry hovering somewhere between the three.