54 Facts About Lord Voldemort

Lord Voldemort is a sobriquet for Tom Marvolo Riddle, a character and the main antagonist in JK Rowling's series of Harry Potter novels.

Lord Voldemort is the leader of the Death Eaters, a group of evil wizards and witches dedicated to ridding the Wizarding World of Muggles and establishing Voldemort as its supreme ruler.

Lord Voldemort began to link him to real-life tyrants, describing him as "a raging psychopath, devoid of the normal human responses to other people's suffering".

Lord Voldemort thinks that it's a shameful human weakness, as you know.

The name Lord Voldemort is derived from the French vol de mort which means "flight of death" or "theft of death".

Lord Voldemort makes his debut in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Lord Voldemort murdered Harry's parents, James and Lily, but as a result of his mother's love and willingness to sacrifice herself for him, baby Harry survived when Lord Voldemort tried to murder him with a Killing Curse.

Lord Voldemort was disembodied, and Harry was left with a mysterious, lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead as a result.

However, at the climax of the book, Harry manages to prevent Lord Voldemort from stealing the stone.

However, at the climax of the story, when Riddle rearranges the letters in his name to write "I am Lord Voldemort", Riddle is revealed as a magical manifestation of the boy who would later grow up to become the Dark Lord.

Lord Voldemort is heard when Harry passes out from the harsh effects of a Dementor.

The Dark Lord Voldemort will rise again with his servant's aid, greater and more terrible than ever before.

Lord Voldemort's goal is to teleport Harry under Dumbledore's watch as a reluctant participant to the Little Hangleton graveyard, where the Riddle family is buried.

Harry is captured and, after Pettigrew uses Harry's blood to fulfil a gruesome magical ritual, Lord Voldemort regains his body and is restored to his full power.

Lord Voldemort then completes his plan and returns to life in his full body as a result of the ritual with Harry's blood.

Lord Voldemort appears at the climax of the fifth book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, having again plotted against Harry.

Lord Voldemort sends a group of Death Eaters to retrieve the prophecy, where the Order of the Phoenix meets them.

All but Bellatrix are captured, and Lord Voldemort engages in a ferocious duel with Dumbledore.

Lord Voldemort eventually murdered his father and grandparents as revenge for abandoning him.

Lord Voldemort disposes of the Minister for Magic and replaces him with Pius Thicknesse, who is under the Imperius Curse.

Lord Voldemort goes on a quest that takes him out of the country to Gregorovitch's wand shop, where he kills the old wandmaker.

Lord Voldemort's journey takes him to Nurmengard, the prison where Gellert Grindelwald is kept, and he kills Grindelwald as well.

Later, Lord Voldemort finds out that Harry and his friends are hunting and destroying his Horcruxes when informed of their heist on the Lestranges' vault at Gringotts in search for Hufflepuff's Cup.

Lord Voldemort then calls an hour's armistice, in exchange for Harry.

Lord Voldemort's body is laid in a different chamber from all the others who died battling him.

Lord Voldemort appears in every Harry Potter film, with the exception of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Lord Voldemort's manifestation is as a face on the back of Quirrell's head, an effect achieved by computer generated imagery.

Lord Voldemort appears in a scene in the Forbidden Forest where he is seen drinking the blood of a unicorn.

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Lord Voldemort is initially only heard, possessing the scratchy, weak voice heard in the first film.

The real Lord Voldemort kills Harry's parents as prophesied, and Delphi is sent to Azkaban.

Lord Voldemort elaborated that he is a "raging psychopath, devoid of the normal human responses to other people's suffering", and whose only ambition in life is to become all-powerful and immortal.

Lord Voldemort has no conscience, feels no remorse or empathy, and does not recognise the worth and humanity of anybody except himself.

Lord Voldemort feels no need for human companionship or friendship, and cannot comprehend love or affection for another.

Lord Voldemort believes he is superior to everyone around him, to the point that he frequently refers to himself in the third person as "Lord Voldemort".

Racist, really", and that if Lord Voldemort were to look into the Mirror of Erised, in which one sees one's greatest desire, he would see "Himself, all-powerful and eternal.

Lord Voldemort is known as one of the greatest Legilimens in the world and a highly accomplished Occlumens; he can read minds and shield his own from penetration.

Lord Voldemort, like his ancestral family, the Gaunts, is a Parselmouth, meaning he can converse with serpents.

Dumbledore said that Lord Voldemort was probably the most brilliant student Hogwarts has ever seen.

On her website, Rowling wrote that Lord Voldemort's wand is made of yew, whose sap is poisonous and which symbolises death.

Lord Voldemort offered him a drink laced with a love potion, and he became infatuated with her; they soon eloped and, within three months of the marriage, Merope became pregnant.

Lord Voldemort revealed her witch status to Tom, believing either that he had fallen in love with her on his own or he would at least stay for their unborn child.

Lord Voldemort was wrong, and Tom quickly left his pregnant wife and went home to his parents, claiming to have been "hoodwinked" and tricked into marrying Merope.

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, it is revealed that Lord Voldemort murdered his father and grandparents, leaving himself the only surviving member of the Riddle family.

Lord Voldemort was sentenced to a short term in Azkaban for his and his son's assault upon a Ministry of Magic official; this affected his health and he died soon after returning home.

Lord Voldemort married Tom Riddle Jr and became pregnant within three months of the wedding.

Lord Voldemort's wand was that which once belonged to Salazar himself.

The Gaunts, including Lord Voldemort, are distantly related to Harry because they are descendants of the Peverell brothers.

Lord Voldemort said that Voldemort commits acts of terrorism such as destroying bridges, murdering innocents, and forcing children to kill their elders.

Several campaigns have used Lord Voldemort to compare his evil to the influence of politicians, large media and corporations.

Lord Voldemort appears in the Potter Puppet Pals sketches by Neil Cicierega.

Lord Voldemort appears in The Lego Batman Movie as one of the prisoners in the Phantom Zone that Joker recruits to take over Gotham City.

Outside of the Harry Potter video games, Lord Voldemort is a playable character in Lego Dimensions, with archive audio of Fiennes' portrayal in the films used for his voiceovers.

Lord Voldemort appears in Space Jam: A New Legacy, in the crowd for the game between the Tune Squad and the Goon Squad.

An upcoming French fan-made short-film titled The House of Gaunt - Lord Voldemort Origins explores the origin story of Voldemort and The Gaunt family.