Lord Voldemort was a dark wizard and the prime antagonist of the Harry Potter series. He was born Tom Riddle but changed his name to Lord Voldemort . Tom Marvolo Riddle (31 December, 1926 [9] – 2 May, 1998), later known as Lord Voldemort (or simply Voldemort [10]), was the most powerful Dark Wizard of all time. He was a half-blood wizard, son of Tom Riddle Sr., a wealthy muggle who abandoned his wife, and Merope Gaunt, who died shortly after childbirth. He was born and raised in a muggle orphanage, but eventually attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Slytherin house. An exceedingly handsome, polite and ... Lord Voldemort (/ ˈvoʊldəmɔːr / VOHL-də-mor, /- mɔːrt / -mort in the films) [j] is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. He first appears in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) and returns either in person or in flashbacks in each novel in the series except the third, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, in which he is only mentioned. Voldemort , an anagrammatic sobriquet for his birth name Tom Marvolo ... Lord Voldemort is the most feared dark wizard in Harry Potter history, but how did Tom Riddle become the Dark Lord? In this deep dive, we break down Voldemort ’s full timeline—from his ...
