The name Voldemort is derived from the French vol de mort which means "flight of death" or "theft of death". According to the author, Voldemort's name is an invented word. In the second book, Rowling reveals that I am Lord Voldemort is an anagram of the character's birth name, Tom Marvolo Riddle. By this means, his followers eventually find and capture Harry and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, a " taboo" spell is placed upon the name, such that Voldemort or his followers may trace anyone who utters it. Most characters in the novels refer to him as "You-Know-Who" or "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" rather than say his name aloud. Throughout the series, Rowling establishes that Voldemort is so feared in the wizarding world that it is considered dangerous even to speak his name. He thinks that it's a shameful human weakness, as you know. I mean, he regards death itself as ignominious. She said: "Voldemort's fear is death, ignominious death. In 2006, Rowling told an interviewer that Voldemort at his core has a human fear: the fear of death. In 2004, though, Rowling said that she did not base Voldemort on any real person. She 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". In a 2000 interview with the BBC, Rowling described Voldemort as a self-hating bully: "Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that's what Voldemort does." In the same year, Rowling became more precise about Voldemort. In the second book, Rowling establishes that Voldemort hates non- pure-blood wizards, despite being a half-blood himself. So he's left with this lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead and the curse rebounded upon the evil wizard, who has been in hiding ever since." And-so-but for some mysterious reason the curse didn't work on Harry. Harry has to find out, before we find out. He killed Harry's parents, and then he tried to kill Harry-he tried to curse him. When he was one year old, the most evil wizard for hundreds and hundreds of years attempted to kill him. And so then I kind of worked backwards from that position to find out how that could be, that he wouldn't know what he was. "The basic idea didn't know he was a wizard. In a 1999 interview, Rowling said Voldemort was invented as a nemesis for Harry Potter, and she intentionally did not flesh out Voldemort's backstory at first. He 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. Through his mother's family, he is the last descendant of the wizard Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Voldemort's obsession with blood purity signifies his aim to rid the wizarding world of Muggle (non-magical) heritage and to conquer both worlds, Muggle and wizarding, to achieve pure-blood dominance. Nearly every witch or wizard dares not utter his name and refers to him instead with such monikers as "You-Know-Who", " He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named", or "The Dark Lord". He attempts to murder the boy, but instead kills his parents, Lily and James Potter, and leaves Harry with a scar on his forehead in the shape of a lightning bolt. Voldemort, an anagrammatic sobriquet for Tom Marvolo Riddle, is the archenemy of Harry Potter, who according to a prophecy has "the power to vanquish the Dark Lord". The character first appeared in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which was published in 1997, and returned either in person or in flashbacks in each book and its film adaptation in the series except the third, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, in which he is only mentioned. Lord Voldemort ( / ˈ v oʊ l d ə m ɔːr/ VOHL-də-mor, /- m ɔːr t/ -mort in the films) is a character and the main antagonist in J.
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