Tom Riddle was the most talented pupil to ever attend Hogwarts. To the school at large he appeared to be an exceedingly handsome and polite child. In reality, however, Riddle was cruel, arrogant, sadistic, manipulative, psychopathic and megalomaniacal. Having achieved outstanding grades in every examination he took, Riddle left Hogwarts and went on to a brief employment at Borgin and Burkes , before disappearing from public view completely. Having embraced the Dark Arts he encountered in his travels, the former Tom Riddle, now known exclusively as Lord Voldemort, raised an enormous army comprised of followers he recruited both at school and afterwards, as well as many dark creatures.
This army, known as the Death Eaters , began a campaign of terror and violence never before seen in Britain. After hearing half of a prophecy referring to a single being with the power to destroy him, Voldemort set off to kill Harry Potter , to whom he believed the prophecy referred. After murdering Harry's parents, Lily and James , Voldemort turned his wand upon the boy, but due to Lily Potter's loving sacrifice , Voldemort's curse backfired on him and his body was destroyed.
Stripped of his physical form, Voldemort fled to a far-flung forest in Albania, to await the day when he could regain a body and return to power. Although he initially lay low, Voldemort was soon forced into the open, and began his bloody conquest of the wizarding world anew. After two years of constant warfare, Voldemort finally gained control of the Ministry of Magic , and ruled relatively unopposed, save for a few pockets of resistance.
Despite his hold over the country, Voldemort was still unsatisfied, as he had yet to remove the danger the prophecy presented to him.
After learning of Potter's location, Voldemort set out to destroy the boy at once and for all launching his entire amassed force against Hogwarts. Upon arriving at the school, Voldemort was met by a full scale rebellion of Hogwarts staff and students, along with the members of the Order of the Phoenix and the residents of Hogsmeade.
As the battle progressed the Death Eaters were driven into the Great Hall, where Voldemort engaged Harry Potter in a duel , and, because all of his Horcruxes were destroyed, Tom Marvolo Riddle was finally killed once and for all.
Tom Riddle's mutilated soul was then trapped in limbo for eternity, unable to move on or return as a ghost. His pure-blood mother, Merope Gaunt , a direct descendant of Salazar Slytherin , died shortly after his birth.
Soon before her death, she named the child after his father, Tom Riddle Sr. To Merope's great sorrow, he abandoned her and their unborn child. Tom Riddle grew up in a dingy orphanage, completely unaware of his wizarding heritage. Since the Muggle orphanage staff did not know anything about his mother , they did not know about his magical background. Instead, they believed that Merope was a circus worker, as Mrs.
Cole told Albus Dumbledore shortly before his first meeting with Tom. It is unknown whether or not the orphanage staff relayed this to Tom before his first encounter with Dumbledore. Despite his ignorance of his mother's true background, Tom did have some grasp on his abilities beyond that of normal magical children of his same age, however, as well as an unusually high degree of control over them.
Tom could move objects with his mind and cause them to travel floating wherever he wished, manipulate animals and creatures as he wished, speak Parseltongue , and use his power to inflict harm on other orphans. After getting into a fight with fellow orphan Billy Stubbs , he used his powers to hang the boy's rabbit from the rafters.
On one occasion, he took two orphans, Dennis Bishop and Amy Benson , into a cave, where he performed an act so horrifying that the two orphans were traumatised into silence. Young Tom Riddle also stole from other orphans and hid their things in his cupboard like trophies. Cole first, who informed him of how unusual Tom was, sharing tales of his extraordinary influence over the other children. When Dumbledore was at last introduced to the boy, Tom at first believed him to be a doctor or psychiatrist of some sort, come to take him to an asylum.
He was convinced after Dumbledore demonstrated his power by using a Flame-Freezing Charm on Tom's cupboard, and when he revealed that Hogwarts was a school for people with magic , which Tom realised his abilities were. At a very early age, it is clear that Tom displayed a desire to be different and set apart from others as it is hinted when he mentions his dislike of his own name, because it is such a common name.
He was not surprised at all upon being informed by Dumbledore that he was a wizard—he was, in fact, eager to believe that he had special gifts that no one else had. Tom also showed an eminent fear of death, considering it a human weakness. He claimed that his mother could not have been a witch, because if she was magical, then she would have been able to avoid dying.
Tom's abuse of his wizarding powers alarmed Albus. He resolved to keep a close eye on him, "something I should have done in any case, seeing as he was alone and friendless.
Riddle's demeanour changed after Dumbledore reprimanded him; he became more guarded and shielded his reactions. Riddle bought some second-hand robes and spell books for himself, along with his wand-thirteen and a half inches; yew; phoenix feather core—at Ollivander's. Garrick Ollivander later said that the wand was very powerful; Voldemort was very pleased with it until the wand failed him during his confrontation with Harry Potter in the Little Hangleton graveyard , many years later.
Riddle also mentioned that he was a Parselmouth , which surprised Dumbledore. Tom was educated at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from to , and was Sorted into Slytherin House , a nod to his ancestor Salazar Slytherin himself. During summer breaks, he was forced to return to the Muggle orphanage, which he despised and dreaded more than any other place on earth. Tom described the way he was seen as "poor, but brilliant, parent-less, but so brave, a school prefect , a model student.
Dumbledore remained suspicious about Tom's true nature; Tom, in turn, despised and feared Dumbledore. Riddle claimed they were his friends, and would make it appear so in public, but in truth, he cared very little for them, using them as servants. He manipulated them to do his darker deeds in discreet manners, which led to nasty incidents that were never connected to them. Tom became obsessed with his heritage and began researching it with an insatiable hunger. He learned of his Slytherin ancestry, discovered the existence of the Chamber of Secrets under Hogwarts , and tamed the basilisk which dwelt within.
As the Heir of Slytherin through his mother's family , Tom was able to open the Chamber Slytherin had left behind in order to "purge the school of all those who are unworthy to study magic"—in Tom and Slytherins' eyes, Muggle-borns.
The basilisk injured many at Hogwarts in The last victim was a student named Myrtle , who was killed in the girls' bathroom when she saw the basilisk's yellow eyes. Hogwarts was to be closed, but Tom did not want to return to the orphanage. During that year, he even made a special request that Headmaster Dippet would allow him to stay at school over the summer break. To keep the school from shutting down, he framed fellow student Rubeus Hagrid and his pet Acromantula , Aragog.
Tom convinced then-Headmaster Armando Dippet that Aragog was the monster that had terrorised the school. Hagrid was expelled, and Tom received an engraved trophy for Special Services to the School. Dumbledore, distrusting Riddle, kept a close watch on him after that. Because it was no longer safe to open the Chamber of Secrets, Tom created a diary to preserve a part of his soul, the very first of seven Horcruxes hoping it would one day lead someone to finish Salazar Slytherin's "noble work.
While researching his heritage, Riddle focused solely on who his father was, thinking him to be the magical parent, as he felt his mother could not have been a witch if she had died. He searched for his father's name in the school trophy room, in the records of Hogwarts prefects and in records of wizarding history, but found nothing to suggest his father had even attended Hogwarts.
He was eventually forced to accept that his father was the Muggle parent, and that his mother was the magical one. It was around this time that Tom Marvolo Riddle gave himself the alias "Lord Voldemort," to spare himself of the reminder of his "filthy Muggle father. Using his middle name, Marvolo , which was taken from his maternal grandfather, Riddle discovered his mother's heritage and the Gaunt's bloodline connection with Salazar Slytherin. In the summer of , Tom went to Little Hangleton to learn about his mother's family.
While there, he met his uncle Morfin Gaunt , who thought that this stranger looked "mighty like that Muggle," Merope's husband, Tom Riddle Sr. Morfin told Tom the story of his Muggle father, which infuriated Tom to the point of seeking revenge. Tom went to the Riddle home and murdered his father, grandfather , and grandmother with the Killing Curse. He covered up his crimes by altering Morfin's memory , causing him to believe that he was the killer.
When the Ministry of Magic investigated the crime, Morfin—who had previously served three years in Azkaban for using magic in front of and against Muggles —freely admitted to it and was sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban.
Tom took the family signet ring from Morfin and wore it like a trophy at Hogwarts. During Tom's seventh year at Hogwarts, he was Head Boy and he received a medal for magical merit. He was regarded as one of the most brilliant students ever to attend Hogwarts. During this time, he questioned Professor Slughorn , who was taken in by Tom's charisma, about the possibility of creating more than one Horcrux , something Slughorn felt deeply ashamed of in later years; at his mid-teen years, Riddle already sought to make himself immortal.
Shortly before leaving Hogwarts, Tom charmed the ghost of Helena Ravenclaw , more commonly known as the Grey Lady and the ghost of Ravenclaw House, into revealing the location of Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem. Tom sought to transform this diadem into another Horcrux.
After graduating, Tom immediately approached Armando Dippet and asked him for a chance to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts , and to remain at Hogwarts, for reasons that he did not confide with the then-headmaster. Dippet rejected this offer, deeming the boy too young, but invited Tom to reapply in a few years, if still interested in the post, something that Dumbledore heavily advised against.
Tom then presumably travelled to the far-flung forest in Albania about which Helena Ravenclaw had told him, and retrieved the diadem. He murdered an Albanian and turned the diadem into a Horcrux.
Upon his return to Britain, he was offered several positions in the Ministry of Magic , but ended up working at Borgin and Burkes for Caractacus Burke , to the disappointment and surprise of many.
He set to persuading witches and wizards to part with their valuable magical heirlooms—a job at which he was very good. At this time, Tom befriended a wealthy, elderly witch named Hepzibah Smith. Tom killed Hepzibah to steal these objects and vanished without a trace. He covered his tracks well by implanting another false memory into an innocent bystander— Hokey , Hepzibah's house-elf. Hokey admitted to accidentally putting poison into Hepzibah's cocoa, which was believed, as Hokey was elderly herself.
Meanwhile, Tom resigned his post at Borgin and Burkes and fled with the cup and locket, subsequently turning them into two more Horcruxes using the murders of Smith and an unidentified Muggle tramp.
Tom disappeared for many years. He slipped deeper into the Dark Arts , travelled extensively, consorted with disreputable people, started to become distorted in appearance from his Horcruxes, and began to use the name "Lord Voldemort" openly. His true desire was to learn more of Hogwarts' secrets and recruit followers. Dumbledore denied him the position, suspicious of his intentions.
The position was thenceforth cursed by Tom Riddle; teachers only held the position for a year, afterwards suffering some terrible fate or humiliation that caused them to leave the position. Tom's visit to Hogwarts was not fruitless, however; he used the opportunity to hide Rowena Ravenclaw 's Diadem in the Room of Requirement , where he believed it would never be found.
He held onto the diadem for a decade before hiding it at Hogwarts. In the s, Lord Voldemort, as he was now exclusively called, had gathered a following of witches and wizards who called themselves, collectively, Death Eaters [14]. Some were supportive of his cause to dominate Muggles and Muggle-borns , others were greedy for power, and yet others joined the Dark Lord out of fear.
Voldemort considered them more like servants than friends or family. They freely used the Unforgivable Curses and killed mercilessly and indiscriminately. Lord Voldemort began taking advantage of the wizarding world's greatest weakness: the beings and creatures that they had outcast.
The Dark Lord recruited giants , who had long ago been driven by wizards into the mountains, and werewolves , who were persecuted by most witches and wizards. Many feared the goblins would also join him, as they were restricted from wand use, but it never happened. Aurors were authorised to use Unforgivable Curses on Death Eaters without warning, and suspects were sometimes handed over to the Dementors without a Wizengamot trial.
Many innocent people were locked away. Under the staunch protection of Albus Dumbledore , the only person Lord Voldemort truly feared, Hogwarts remained a safe place of learning. The Order of the Phoenix was created by Dumbledore at this time to fight against Voldemort. At the height of his power in , a prophecy was given by Sybill Trelawney to Albus Dumbledore which predicted the fall of the Dark Lord.
This prophecy was given in the Hog's Head Inn during an interview for the position of Professor of Divination. Voldemort murders Lily Potter : his greatest mistake. This prophecy was overheard by Death Eater and informant Severus Snape. He relayed to Lord Voldemort what he had heard, not realising that he had missed an important part of the message.
Trelawney's description of the night's events was a bit different however, as she stated that after feeling "ill," Aberforth burst into the room with Severus Snape. This is in contrast with Dumbledore's description of events. However, Dumbledore would not have wanted Harry to know Snape had been the spy and therefore didn't give Harry the full details.
In any case, Voldemort was threatened, and sprang into action to prevent the fulfillment of the prophecy. There were, at the time, two babies to whom the prophecy could refer— Harry Potter , the half-blood son of James and Lily Potter ; and Neville Longbottom , the pure-blood son of Alice and Frank Longbottom. Both families had sought to thwart Voldemort three times, and both families were members of the Order of the Phoenix.
Both children in question were born at the end of the seventh month, July. Voldemort chose to target Harry instead of Neville; Dumbledore suspected this was because Harry shared a similar family heritage with Voldemort, both of them being half-bloods. This happened because Lily sacrificed her life to protect her son, creating a powerful defence of ancient magic around Harry which protected him for many years. After Lord Voldemort's first fall from power, the Death Eaters dispersed and attempted to return to normal life.
Many claimed they had been under the Imperius Curse , while others stayed true to their master and continued his work, most notably the Lestrange family , who were eventually taken into custody, convicted at a trial, and imprisoned in Azkaban. Lord Voldemort lost his physical form and was weak and powerless, but he remained alive.
The Horcruxes he had created kept his soul bound to the physical world. He gained physical form by inhabiting snakes, though he disliked doing so because the bodies of such animals were ill-equipped to perform magic, and because his possession significantly reduced their lifespans; none of his hosts survived for too long.
In , Voldemort formed a plan to regain his body. Hogwarts Professor Quirinus Quirrell had made a voyage to Albania, where his foolish and gullible mind was vulnerable to Voldemort. He latched onto Quirrell's body and came back to Hogwarts with him. Voldemort ordered Quirrell to drink the blood of unicorns in the Forbidden Forest so he could gain power.
Somehow, Voldemort learned of the Sorcerer's Stone , and how it could somehow return him to his physical form. Voldemort discovered the Stone had been removed earlier that same day, and through Quirrell's connections at Hogwarts, learned it was hidden at the school.
The same year that Voldemort set to the task of stealing the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter began his first year at Hogwarts. There were many barriers protecting the Stone. Quirrell had to trick Rubeus Hagrid , who was then the Hogwarts Gamekeeper, into telling him how to get past the three-headed dog Fluffy.
To do this, he enticed Hagrid into a card game with the wager of a dragon egg. Severus Snape , who had switched sides near the end of the First Wizarding War and become professor of Potions , was suspicious of Quirrell and hounded him relentlessly. When Quirrell released a troll in the Hogwarts dungeons as a distraction, Snape blocked him off. Voldemort moved forward with his goal, moving through the security barriers to the Mirror of Erised. Quirrell saw himself presenting the stone to his master, but could not figure out how to get it.
It was only when Harry Potter arrived, believing he was protecting the Stone from Severus Snape, that Voldemort saw a way to get it. Dumbledore would later say, "Only those who wanted to find the stone, but not use it, could get it from the mirror. When he touched Harry, however, his hands blistered and burned.
Harry placed his hands on Quirrell's face, severely injuring and eventually killing him. Lord Voldemort's soul fled, once more without a body. Riddle's old school diary , and one of his Horcruxes. Lord Voldemort returned to the Albanian forest, weaker than ever. He had to wait yet again for someone to help him. This was the same diary created as a Horcrux by Tom Marvolo Riddle as a boy in the s.
Malfoy planted the diary on eleven-year-old Ginny Weasley , who brought it to Hogwarts. She began writing in it, and found that a sixteen-year-old Tom Riddle was answering.
She found comfort in the diary, not knowing she was being manipulated. The diary slowly drained the life and energy from Ginny, transferring it to itself. Under the diary's control, Ginny re-opened the Chamber of Secrets and released the basilisk , which petrified several students. While possessed, she also killed Hagrid's roosters and wrote threatening messages on the school corridors in rooster blood.
Ginny became upset and confused, knowing that the diary was doing something to her, and tried to flush it down the toilet in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley accidentally stumbled upon it, and Harry began communicating with the diary.
When Ginny saw that Harry had the diary, she stole it back for she did not want Harry to find out all the things she had written in the diary, or what she had done while under its influence. When this piece of Voldemort's soul was ready to take his physical form from Ginny's life, the diary lured her into the Chamber of Secrets, while ignoring her pleas and cries for mercy. Harry found Ginny in time and destroyed the basilisk with Godric Gryffindor 's Sword.
Fawkes also arrived, summoned by Harry's loyalty to Dumbledore. Harry used the basilisk's fang to stab the diary, thinking it would destroy its power. Voldemort was still very weak when, in , his servant Peter Pettigrew , a. Wormtail, who had faked his death years earlier and hid from authorities in his Animagus form of a rat , had returned to his master. Together, they built a rudimentary body that Voldemort used for travel and performing magic. While in this form, Voldemort was forced to drink a potion made from Unicorn blood and venom from Nagini the snake to sustain him.
Knowing that Dumbledore was sure to have seen the Sorcerer's Stone destroyed, Voldemort knew he would not be able to use the Elixir of Life to create a new body for himself so he would settle on regaining his old body and strength.
He used magic to glean information about the Triwizard Tournament from Jorkins. Before killing her, Voldemort was surprised to find that someone else had put a Memory Charm on her and interrogated her to find the whereabouts of a loyal Death Eater, Barty Crouch Jr.
Voldemort uncovered that Barty Crouch Sr. Jorkins had stumbled upon Barty Jr. Returning to the Riddle House in Little Hangleton, the site of his very first murder, Voldemort also killed Riddle groundskeeper Frank Bryce for overhearing their plan to crash the Triwizard Tournament. They went to the Crouch estate where Voldemort placed Crouch Sr. Voldemort ordered Crouch Jr. Crouch Jr. He influenced the Tournament for months, ensuring that Harry would be the one to get to the Triwizard Cup first which, unbeknownst to anyone, was a Portkey.
Harry, in the spirit of sportsmanship, requested Cedric Diggory to tie with him for the win. When they both touched the Portkey, they were transported to a cemetery in Little Hangleton where Wormtail and Voldemort were waiting. After Wormtail had placed Voldemort's rudimentary body into a cauldron containing the near finished potion, he added the first two ingredients causing it to turn from a poisonous-looking blue to burning red before he proceeded to obtain Harry's blood and added it to the Potion for his master's rebirth.
Calling on Wormtail to robe him, the reborn Dark Lord took some time examing his body and getting reaccustomed to it. Then he called for his servant to show him his arm and used the now returned Dark Mark to summon his Death Eaters.
Those who were perhaps most loyal to him, save for those who willingly went to Azkaban in his name, appeared. Voldemort welcomed them before he scorned them for believing him to be dead and informed them that he would expect better of them now that he had returned. The Dark Lord told the Death Eaters of the events that had led to his first downfall, his years in hiding before he tried to steal the Sorcerer's Stone by poessessing Quirinus Quirrell and eventual defeat before finally of how Wormtail had located him, and they set out to orchestrate his resurrection.
Voldemort then set his attention on Harry, and began to mock and humiliate the boy before the Death Eaters. He then had Harry untied so he could force the young wizard into a duel where the Dark Lord had a greater advantage over Harry. After inflicting the Cruciatus Curse several times and the Imperius Curse on Harry, Voldemort was ready to end the one sided duel and kill Harry once and for all. Yet as Voldemort cast " Avada Kedavra , " Harry simultaneously cast " Expelliarmus " and their twin-core wands became locked in Priori Incantatem.
They encouraged Harry, while distracting Voldemort. Harry pulled away and had enough time to grab Cedric's body and the Triwizard Cup to return to the Hogwarts grounds.
Voldemort now had some of his followers, but Barty Crouch Jr. Voldemort was able to grow in power in secret. In , Dumbledore reconvened the Order of the Phoenix once more, using Sirius Black 's family home at 12 Grimmauld Place as headquarters. Harry Potter , Hermione Granger , and Ron Weasley set up a similar organisation at Hogwarts called Dumbledore's Army , which was originally created to thwart the Ministry's meddling at the school under Dolores Umbridge.
Voldemort was now after the aforementioned prophecy housed in the Department of Mysteries , wanting to hear the whole of it. At this time, many of Voldemort's most loyal Death Eaters, such as Bellatrix Lestrange , escaped from Azkaban and returned to his side. Voldemort's first attempt at securing the prophecy was to have Lucius Malfoy put Order member Sturgis Podmore under the Imperius Curse and send him to take the prophecy.
However, Sturgis was unable to get into the Department of Mysteries. He was ordered to retrieve the prophecy, but was seriously injured in the process and was put into a permanent ward at St Mungo's. From this, Voldemort learned that the only people who could retrieve a prophecy are the people who are included in the prophecy.
Voldemort could not risk going into the Ministry himself, so he used a telepathic link through Harry Potter's scar to cause him to go there instead. Lord Voldemort during the Battle at the Department of Mysteries. Harry wound up retrieving the prophecy from its shelf.
At once, Death Eaters appeared, demanding Harry hand over the prophecy. The six D. Voldemort was forced to come to the Ministry, but upon learning of its destruction he tried to kill Harry.
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I am Lord Voldemort the '-volod' part of the name may be connected to the name Volodimir , where 'volod' equates to ruler. When asked about Tom Riddle, Dumbledore said that he was likely the most brilliant student to ever pass through the doors of Hogwarts, and was possibly only surpassed by Dumbledore himself. When Riddle left the school and became Voldemort, he proved that to be a fact when he was able to mastermind two of the most devastating wars in Britain's Wizarding World.
As a matter of fact, the greatest wizarding battle in history was reportedly one between the good Dumbledore and the dark Grindelwald. When Voldemort rose to power, he soon surpassed even the power of Grindelwald - who was spending the rest of his life in prison after his capture. Voldemort has mastered countless Dark Arts spells and is strong enough when casting them to overpower even the most powerful wizards.
For example, he's even able to control Bartemius Crouch Senior for almost half a year. He also cursed all of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers at Hogwarts after he was rejected the job, which involved a spell so powerful that not even Dumbledore could lift it.
While Tom Riddle could use magic without a wand, he was able to gain even more power when he did choose to use his wand. Voldemort became possibly one of the most skillful duelists in the entire Wizarding World, proving his mastery of the wand time and time again against the best wizards and witches in the world.
Voldemort was able to win duels against Horace Slughorn, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and Minerva McGonagall - all three of these wizards and witches are considered master duelists. Voldemort also overpowered Alastor Moody and Amelia Bones in fights. The reason why Voldemort was able to defeat so many wizards and witches was that he was unpredictable and aggressive, which allowed him to change fighting styles without warning.
He also used the Dark Arts, of course, which created an unfair advantage. When Voldemort learned from Snape that there was a prophecy that would vanquish the Dark Lord, he immediately sought to find out more.
Knowing that a child would be born that could beat him, he set out to eliminate the child - not knowing if it was the half-blooded Harry or the full-blooded Neville, who were both born on the same day. He went after Harry due to the fact that he and the child had something in common: they were both half-bloods. When Voldemort showed up and attacked, he took out both James Potter and Lily Potter - however, Lily's love cast a protective spell on Harry and therefore Voldemort's Avada Kedavra spell backfired.
When he was 'destroyed' or when his body was, in any case it was the result of his own spell, and this protection of a mother's love. When Voldemort possessed Professor Quirinus Quirrell, he ordered the professor to drink the blood of unicorns. These unicorns were found in the Forbidden Forest and there was a specific reason for this demand. Unicorns possessed healing abilities - and since Voldemort was rendered almost powerless after his Avada Kedavra spell backfired, he needed to heal in order to start regaining his strength.
This was also needed to help keep Quirrell from expiring the longer Voldemort possessed him. Even after Voldemort returned to full strength in his own body, he was still forced to drink unicorn blood in order to remain alive and strong. To do so, he was able to create a specific potion using unicorn blood and venom from the snake Nagini.
When Lily Potter cast the protective spell on Harry when he was an infant, the Avada Kedavra spell that backfired had another effect. Voldemort learned that he could not touch Harry without feeling intense pain.
When Quirrel tried to touch Harry, he felt immeasurable pain. He was able to lead Harry, and along with him Cedric Diggory, to a graveyard where he immediately eliminated Cedric and then turned to Harry. With the information that he gained from Bertha Jorkins, he made a potion and was able to finally recreate his body using Harry's blood. This also eliminated one layer of Lily's protection, as Voldemort could finally touch Harry without feeling pain.
After Voldemort regained his body in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and used the blood of Harry Potter to create a potion that finally allowed him to physically attack the Boy Who Lived, the two had a duel. While Voldemort was a master duelist who had defeated some of the best wizards and witches in the world, he was unable to beat Harry Potter.
This was because there was another protection set up to save Harry's life. Voldemort's wand was unable to overpower Harry's wand, which came as quite the surprise to Voldemort. Fantasy Others Children. When her husband found out she was a witch, he abandoned her while she was pregnant.
Tom's mother died shortly after giving birth to him one December 31, living just long enough to name him Tom Riddle, after his father and Marvolo, after his grandfather. Tom Marvolo Riddle, the half-blood orphan, was to transform himself into Lord Voldemort and take control of the Wizarding world by manipulating the festering relationship between pureblood and Muggle-born wizards. Eventually he would lose all — not because he lacked power, but because of his ruthless methods, his inability to love or trust anyone but himself, and his belief in his own infallibility.
As he told Quirrell, he believed that "there is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it. The dark wizard known as "Lord Voldemort" was born in in an orphanage in London. His mother, a witch, and, according to Voldemort, a descendant of Salazar Slytherin, had fallen in love with Tom Riddle, a Muggle.
Tom Riddle lived in a fine-looking manor that stood on a hill overlooking the village of Little Hangleton. The manor house was one of the largest and grandest buildings for miles around. When Voldemort's mother told her husband that she was a witch, he abandoned her, returning to his parents' home. As Lord Voldemort told the story, his father "didn't like magic. He was raised in a Muggle orphanage. For the first eleven years of his life, Tom was raised in a clean but grim Muggle orphanage in London.
As he got older, he began to steal things and appeared to cause "nasty" things to happen to the other children and to pets around the orphanage.
Once at Hogwarts, Tom was sorted into Slytherin House and swiftly became known as an unusually brilliant student. A handsome boy, he was much admired by everyone, with the exception of the Transfiguration professor, Albus Dumbledore. During the holidays, Tom had to return to the Muggle orphanage he despised. Secretly, Tom was obsessed with his Slytherin heritage and with finding the ways he might cheat death. He found the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets in his sixth year and released Slytherin's basilisk within it, killing a student named Myrtle Warren.
Slytherin had built the chamber deep in Hogwarts castle and kept it hidden from the other founders. He sealed it so that only his own true heir would be able to unseal the chamber and unleash the horror within to purge the school of "all who were unworthy to study magic. Contemptuous of the name of his "foul, common Muggle" father, he made an anagram of Tom Marvolo Riddle. On June 13, , Tom staged the capture of another student, Rubeus Hagrid, and tricked Headmaster Armando Dippet into believing Hagrid and his giant spider Aragog were responsible for the attacks.
Tom received an engraved trophy for special services to the school, but he realized that Albus Dumbledore was keeping an "annoyingly close watch" on him and it was not safe to open the Chamber of Secrets again while he was still at school. Tom preserved himself in the pages of a diary with the hope that he would one day be able to lead another in his footsteps and "finish Salazar Slytherin's noble work.
Riddle didn't learn the complete story of his birth until he tracked down and visited his uncle Morfin Gaunt the summer after Myrtle died. In revenge for his father's abandonment and Muggle blood, he went to the Riddle mansion in Little Hangleton and murdered his father and grandparents GF1.
The Riddle's gardener, Frank Bryce, later told police that on the day of the Riddle's deaths he had seen a stranger; a teenage boy, dark-haired and pale, near the manor.
The next morning a maid found Tom Riddle Sr. The Riddles were buried in the Little Hangleton churchyard. Albus Dumbledore later said of him, "Brilliant. Of course, he was probably the most brilliant student Hogwarts has ever seen. He made his first two Horcruxes with the murders of Myrtle and his father. He was only seventeen. About this time, Albus Dumbledore defeated the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in a spectacular duel and became the only wizard that Riddle ever feared.
After leaving Hogwarts in , Riddle surprised everyone by working at a dark magic shop named Borgin and Burkes on Knockturn Alley. His job there was to ferret out items of value and obtain them at the lowest price possible.
He was very good at this, but he abruptly left this job and disappeared after he killed Hepzibah Smith for a gold locket that belonged to Slytherin, and the gold cup that belonged to Helga Hufflepuff. Riddle disappeared for over ten years. During this time he "traveled far and wide … sank so deeply into the Dark Arts," "consorted with the very worst" witches and wizards, and "underwent so many dangerous, magical transformations" in his quest for power and immortality.
When he returned he was known as "Lord Voldemort. By the early s, Voldemort had a growing legion of thuggish followers he called "Death Eaters," and he was so fearsome that few dared speak his name. Few people realized he was the same handsome and brilliant boy who had been so accomplished and well liked at Hogwarts.
In addition to his Death Eaters, Voldemort formed alliances with dark creatures such as werewolves and dementors; he also controlled armies of Inferi animated corpses. Many of the witches and wizards who joined him came for a share of the power he offered, but increasingly many joined his following out of fear of reprisal. Each Death Eater bore a sign, the Dark Mark, a skull with a serpent protruding from its mouth like a tongue, burned into his or her left inner forearm by the "Dark Lord"; when they had killed, Death Eaters would send the same sign into the air, comprised of emerald stars blazing in a haze of greenish smoke, causing terror when it was seen.
Voldemort's first reign of terror lasted eleven years. During this time, Voldemort and his minions attacked anyone who resisted or who defended the rights of Muggles and Muggle-born wizards, and marked the gruesome scenes of torture and murder with the Dark Mark lest anyone else think to stand in their way. Whole families were wiped out and many others went into hiding. Overwhelmed by reports of deaths, disappearances, and torture in an atmosphere of terror, Bartemius Crouch, then Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, authorized Aurors to use the Unforgivable Curses against suspects, empowered them to kill rather than capture, and some suspects were handed to the dementors without trial.
Still, the Ministry could not cope with the situation, so Albus Dumbledore began organizing the resistance, creating the group that became known as The Order of the Phoenix. The Order was frightfully outnumbered, however, and the Death Eaters were killing the members of the Order off, many times killing their entire families along with them. Lord Voldemort seemed "mightier than any wizard living," and had achieved his goal; most of the wizarding world avoided saying his name, when they spoke of him at all they referred to him as You-Know-Who, or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
At the height of his power in the late s, Voldemort was to recruit two young Death Eaters who would turn on him in different ways. Severus Snape and Regulus Black joined the Death Eaters for different reasons, but both of them came to realize that they could not support Voldemort's methods or stand by when he hurt the ones they loved. Regulus, furious about Voldemort's abuse of Kreacher, was to die trying to sabotage one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, and Snape became a double agent for Dumbledore after Voldemort decided to attack Lily Potter.
Ironically, Snape was the one who told Voldemort of the prophecy he overheard identifying a child who would have the power to vanquish the Dark Lord. Snape was horrified when Voldemort decided that the Potter's child Harry was the child of the prophecy.
Voldemort learned only part of the prophecy: that this person would be born at the end of July to parents who had survived three attempts to kill them. Voldemort realized that he must find and kill that child. Dumbledore would not need Snape's skills for many years to come; Voldemort's physical body was destroyed when the Avada Kedavra curse he aimed at one-year-old Harry Potter rebounded on him. His mother Lily's self-sacrifice seconds before had unexpectedly protected her son.
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