Every good story needs a great villain, and it’s hard to find someone more sinister than the “You-Know-Who” in the Harry Potter franchise. Or is it the dark Lord Voldemort – one of the most impressive and famous villains in the world. However, even with all 8 movies and 7 story books, Harry Potter fans are not sure to know all of Voldemort’s biography. Behind this special character, there are also many interesting details, guaranteed to make the audience go crazy when revealing secret secrets.
1. The scary number behind the name Voldemort
The naming in Harry Potter often has many deep meanings, and Voldemort is no exception when it comes to hiding detailed messages. The phrase “vol de mort” is of French origin, which roughly translates to “flight from death” or “run from death”. Thereby hinting at Voldemort’s true nature, including his quest for immortality.
In 2015, author JKRowling further confirmed on Twitter the pronunciation of Voldemort. According to her, the ‘t’ is silent, so the standard reading of Voldemort is: Vol-Deh-More.
2. JK Rowling intentionally kept information about Voldemort hidden until the end of the series
Unlike the character system that was elaborately built from the beginning, writer JK Rowling only came up with a personal history for Voldemort in the second half of the book series. Thanks to that, both the author and the reader are curious about the character’s fate. Voldemort’s image also becomes more mysterious, bringing a sense of clarity with each new chapter.
3. Voldemort’s family is strangely similar to Harry Potter, just because of this detail, it is suspicious of blood genes
In the final film, Harry Potter discovers that he is a descendant of Ignotus Peverell, the owner of the cloak of invisibility in the famous Deathly Hallows trilogy.
As for Voldemort, his maternal family may also be direct descendants of the Peverells. Specifically derived from Cadmus Peverell, the original owner of the Resurrection Stone, which later belonged to Voldemort’s maternal grandfather Marvolo Gaunt.
4. Voldemort has not known love since birth, the reason comes from the mother’s scheme
Voldemort came from a dark family where his mother Merope Gaunt lived a tragic life, forced to abuse a love spell with a Muggle man to escape the cruel family. Unfortunately, when the love spell wore off, Voldemort’s father abandoned his wife and son. Merope Gaunt was so desperate that she had to leave her child at a Muggle orphanage, opening the violent childhood of the boy Tom Marvolo Riddle (Voldemort’s real name).
Voldemort as a child lived in an orphanage
Apparently, Voldemort became the villain because he had never felt love. His whole life was filled with hatred and hatred
5. Voldemort “evilized” from a young age, revealing his evil nature when he was underage
As a child, Voldemort tested his powers on his peers. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, this past is clearly present through Dumbledore’s memories, showing the young Voldemort’s willingness to bully his friends with magic. Once, he took two younger children into a cave and did something so terrible that they could never open their mouths again.
6. Bellatrix Lestrange secretly had a baby with Voldemort, unfortunately the child’s fate was equally tragic
In the Harry Potter and Cursed Child side stories, Voldemort is confirmed to have been romantically involved with Bellatrix Lestrange, and the two gave birth to a baby girl named Delphini around the time of Harry Potter and the Prisoner. Prisoner of Azkaban.
Bellatrix Lestrange is Voldemort’s secret lover
As the only descendant of Lord Voldemort, Delphini was as cruel as her parents and could speak the Parseltongue snake language. Towards the end of her life, she was imprisoned in Azkaban for felony crimes, including murder and illegally using Time-Turner to revive her biological father.
7. Voldemort wanted to be a teacher but was prevented by Dumbledore, from here born the most difficult curse at Hogwarts
In his youth, Voldemort twice applied for the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, but failed all the time. If the first time, he was rejected by Headmaster Armando Dippet because of his young age, then the next time, Albus Dumbledore immediately saw Voldemort’s evil intentions.
Voldemort in his youth
Therefore, Voldemort cursed whoever was accepted into the position. As Dumbledore himself mused: “Hogwarts can’t have had a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher for more than a year, since I turned down Lord Voldemort’s offer.”
8. In the Harry Potter series, there is more than one person playing the role of Voldemort
Although Ralph Fiennes is the actor most associated with the character of Voldemort, in reality, he only started acting since Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Before that, it was Richard Bremmer who was behind Voldemort’s “parasite” version of Professor Quirrell’s head.
In the first movie, it was Richard Bremmer who took on the role of Voldemort
Later, Ralph Fiennes is a familiar name when referring to the character Voldemort
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