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Lord Voldemort (/ ˈ v oʊ l d ə m ɔːr / VOHL-də-mor, /-m ɔːr t /-mort in the films) [j] is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling.
- The Mirror of Erised Is Wasted on Him
- Boggarts Are Wasted on Him Too
- His Name Has to Work Globally
- He Was Partly Inspired by British Gangsters
- His Biggest Plot Twist Was Actually Revealed Very Early
- He’S Related to Harry
- Young Starter
- Not So Proud
- Grindelwald Versus Voldemort
- Beyond Human Desires
Over the years, we’ve learned what the Harry Potter castand the characters they play would see if they looked into the Mirror of Erised, showing their most desperate and deep desire. Unfortunately, Voldemort’s desires are not quite as inventive. In a 2005 interview with The Leaky Cauldron, the Potter author revealed that Voldemort would look in the...
Voldemort isn’t any more inventive when it comes to Boggarts. For the unitiated, Boggarts are devilish little creatures which take the form of whatever scares the person in front of them the most. In the Leaky Cauldron interview mentioned above, the author revealed that Voldemort’s most potent fear is of death and, specifically, his own death. With...
A big revelation at the end of Chamber of Secrets involves the fact that the name Tom Marvolo Riddle is an anagram of “I Am Lord Voldemort”. It’s a cool little twist, but created big problems when the books and movies had to be translated into different languages. So to name just a few, he’s called Tom Elvis Jedusor in France (“Je suis Lord Voldemo...
The Harry Potter author has stated that the inspiration for the Wizarding World being too scared to use Voldemort’s name came from the Kray twins. The duo were played by Tom Hardy in the movie Legend. Notorious gangsters in London during the 1950s and 1960s, their reign of terror was so severe that people feared even using the name Kray in case the...
At the very end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, we learn that Harry Potter became a Horcrux on the night of his parents’ murder. This is news to Harry, to Voldemort, and to all of us. However, it wasn’t news to Dumbledore, who actually hinted at this revelation way back in Chamber of Secrets. During the debrief between Harry and Dumbledore...
The magical world is such that almost all pure-blood wizards are related in some way, but the connection between Voldemort and Harry Potter is stronger than most. Harry is, as we know, directly related to Ignotus Peverell – one of the original owners of the Deathly Hallows – and that’s why he receives the Invisibility Cloak as an inheritance. Volde...
Every Harry Potter fan worth his salt knows that Voldemort created Horcruxesto make himself immortal. What they might not know is how early Voldemort got started with this plan. He was just 16 years old when he used the death of Moaning Myrtle to split his own soul and hide it in his diary. Grim.
While telling Harry about the Horcruxes, Dumbledore says he suspects that Voldemort reserved the murders of special enemies to create Horcruxes. He was wrong. According to Pottermore, Voldemort made the prestigious Salazar Slytherin’s locket into a Horcrux after murdering a “muggle tramp”. He must have been in a rush that day.
There’s debate in the Harry Potter fandom over which of these two terrible dark lords would win in a duel. While they do meet in the books, and Voldemort kills Grindelwald, they never have a proper wizard duel. That said, they have both fought Dumbledore, who seemed to think that Voldemort was the deadlier of the pair, describing him to Harry as “t...
We see throughout the films that numerous eldritch experiments Voldemort conducted on himself gave him a host of weird and wonderful powers. In fact, the Potter author has claimed on Twitterthat he was so far removed from humanity that he no longer had to eat to sustain himself. So we can comfort ourselves with the fact that Voldemort no longer kne...
Tom Marvolo Riddle (31 December 1926[20] – 2 May 1998), later known as Lord Voldemort or, alternatively as the Dark Lord, You-Know-Who, or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was an English half-blood[3] wizard considered to have been the most powerful and dangerous Dark wizard of all time.[21][22] He was...
Born Tom Marvolo Riddle, Lord Voldemort or He-Who-Must-Not-be-Named was one of the most powerful Dark wizards of all time. His closest followers, the Death Eaters, were dedicated to establishing a new Voldemort-led supremacy, but were forced into hiding after their leader was mysteriously vanquished when he tried to kill a defenceless infant ...
Nearly everything we learn about Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is secondhand. The book begins with Voldemort’s failed attempt to kill baby Harry and his subsequent disappearance. We know he wants to conquer the wizarding world and that he has evil methods and intentions.
Oct 3, 2022 · At the beginning of the "Harry Potter" series, Voldemort is mostly the ghost of a threat, a name that must not be spoken, and a cloud hanging over the titular protagonist's life. As the...
Jun 17, 2019 · Lord Voldemort was everything Tom Riddle was not. Choosing to style himself as a Lord was a bold move, but from the outset it gave Voldemort an identity that was far from common. That new identity was also original, based as it was on Riddle’s given names.
