54 Facts About 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.

Voldemort is the archenemy of Harry Potter, who according to a prophecy has "the power to vanquish the Dark 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.

Voldemort killed Harry's parents, and then he tried to kill Harry—he tried to curse him.

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".

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

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

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

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 Voldemort tried to murder him with a Killing Curse.

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 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.

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

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, Voldemort regains his body and is restored to his full power.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Later, 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.

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

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

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, Voldemort's manifestation is as a face on the back of Quirrell's head, an effect achieved by computer generated imagery.

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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, Voldemort is initially only heard, possessing the scratchy, weak voice heard in the first film.

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

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.

Voldemort is a sadist who hurts and murders people—especially Muggles—for his own amusement.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 Voldemort murdered his father and grandparents, leaving himself the only surviving member of the Riddle family.

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.

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

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

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

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

Voldemort has been compared with other characters within fiction, for example Sauron from The Lord of the Rings; they are, during the time when the main plot takes place, seeking to recover their lost power after having been considered dead or at least no longer a threat, and are so feared that they are sometimes unnamed.

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

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

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, Voldemort is a playable character in Lego Dimensions, with archive audio of Fiennes' portrayal in the films used for his voiceovers.

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.