{"id":161427,"date":"2021-01-07T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/harry-potter-voldemort-facts\/"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T12:00:56","slug":"harry-potter-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-lord-voldemort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/07\/harry-potter-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-lord-voldemort\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Lord Voldemort"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When it comes to intimidating villains<\/a>, few were as terrifying as\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em><\/a>‘s Lord Voldemort. His name alone was enough to strike fear into witches and wizards worldwide and his powers were so great that few who squared up against him lived to tell the tale. In the end, he was destroyed by his own magic but he racked up quite the body count<\/a> during his time at the top. In spite of his fame, however, there’s still plenty of mystery surrounding the Dark Lord.<\/p>\n

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In the years that have followed the publication of the final Harry Potter<\/em> book, J.K. Rowling has revealed plenty of new information about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. As a result,\u00a0those who have not been keeping up with the author’s tweets and interviews are likely unaware of these interesting facts surrounding You-Know-Who’s origins and past.<\/p>\n

10 <\/span>His Family Had A History Of\u00a0Incest<\/h2>\n
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The Gaunt family\u00a0were well known for marrying their cousins, as mentioned by Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<\/em>. This led to mental instability and violent tendencies and, ultimately, the family’s downfall. Sickening though it may be, this is actually a lot more common in the wizarding world than one might think though.<\/p>\n

Some of the most\u00a0prominent wizarding families chose to marry their relatives in order to maintain their pure-blood status. These include the Black and the Lestrange families, both of which harbored their fair share of dark witches and wizards over the years. One of the big exceptions, however, is the Malfoy family, who, according to J.K. Rowling, chose to avoid inter-marrying to avoid enfeebling their bloodline.<\/p>\n

9 <\/span>He\u00a0And Harry Were Related<\/h2>\n
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The invisibility cloak that Harry used to sneak around Hogwarts undetected played a key role in many of the events that took place throughout the series. It was not until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/em> though that fans learned its true origins. The cloak had been handed down from generation to generation before finding itself in Harry’s possession\u00a0but its original owner was\u00a0Ignotus Peverell.<\/p>\n

This might not seem too significant\u00a0at first glance,\u00a0not until one realizes\u00a0that Voldemort’s family had a similar heirloom, that is. The Gaunt family’s resurrection stone once belonged to\u00a0Cadmus Peverell which suggests that Voldemort and Harry were actually related. This means that the pair were not only connected by fate and prophecy, but also by blood.<\/p>\n

8 <\/span>He Was A Senior Citizen At The Time Of His Death<\/h2>\n
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One might not think it to look at him, but Voldemort was actually more like Oldemort by\u00a0the time that the Battle of Hogwarts took place. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was born on New Year’s Eve in 1926, which would have made him 71 during the final showdown with Harry and 54 when the two first met on that fateful night in Godric’s Hollow. Age works a little differently in the Wizarding world though, it seems.<\/p>\n

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Dumbledore was a prime example of how powerful witches and wizards<\/a> are not slowed by their advancing years in the same way as mere mortals<\/a>. The former Hogwarts headmaster lived to the ripe old age of 115 and only bit the bullet due to a pesky curse and a cunning plan to take down You-Know-Who once and for all. The previous headmaster,\u00a0Armando Dippet, lived to be 355.<\/p>\n

7 <\/span>Ralph Fiennes’ Nephew Also Played Voldemort<\/h2>\n
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Voldemort was portrayed by numerous actors throughout the Harry Potter<\/em> movies, but there can be no disputing that\u00a0Ralph Fiennes is the real Dark Lord. It’s perhaps fitting then that Fiennes’ young nephew, Hero, also played the part of Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hero, or Hero Beauregard Faulkner Fiennes Tiffin, to give him his full name, portrayed the 11-year-old version of Tom Riddle that Dumbledore visits at the orphanage. The appearance helped to launch the young actor’s career\u00a0and he has gone on to win\u00a0several awards over the past few years. He still has some way to go if he wants to catch up with his uncle though.<\/p>\n

6 <\/span>Murder Runs In The Family<\/h2>\n
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Acting clearly runs in the Fiennes family, but\u00a0there’s something far more sinister lurking in Voldemort’s genes. His connection to Salazar Slytherin is no secret\u00a0nor is the Hogwarts founder’s\u00a0desire to murder mudbloods and squibs. Unable to do so under the noses of his peers, however, Slytherin instead\u00a0made arrangements so that one of\u00a0his heirs may one day make his pure-blood vision a reality<\/a>. This isn’t the only member of Voldemort’s family that has a taste for blood either.<\/p>\n

Gormlaith Gaunt was one of Voldemort’s cousins and, like Slytherin and the Dark Lord himself, despised muggles and muggle-born witches and wizards. She hated them so much, in fact,\u00a0that she murdered her own sister and brother-in-law just for showing sympathy to non-magic folk. Their blood may be pure, but the hearts and minds of Slytherin’s descendants are anything but.<\/p>\n

5 <\/span>He Had A Child With Bellatrix Lestrange<\/h2>\n
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While on the subject of Voldemort’s family, those who skipped over Harry Potter and the Cursed Child<\/em> might not realize that Voldemort actually has a daughter. Delphini (or Delphi) is the unstable offspring of Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange and the last surviving heir\u00a0of Salazar Slytherin now that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named\u00a0is no longer around.<\/p>\n

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While there was certainly time enough for a child to have been conceived and born in the build-up to the battle of Hogwarts, many fans didn’t take too kindly to this somewhat bizarre plot-point<\/a>. That said, when compared with some of the other major story beats in the play, it doesn’t actually sound too far-fetched.\u00a0Given all that he went through to conquer death though, it’s perhaps a little ironic that something so simple could help the Dark Lord to live on even after his downfall.<\/p>\n

4 <\/span>You’ve Probably Been Pronouncing His Name Wrong<\/h2>\n
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Remember when the guy who created the GIF file format tried to tell everybody that they should be pronouncing it ‘jif’? Well, as it happens, J.K. Rowling pulled something similar a few years back when she revealed that the ‘T’ at the end of Voldemort’s name is actually silent. It turns out that the most villainous dark wizard of all time was actually called ‘Vol-de-more’.<\/p>\n

When coming up with a name for You-Know-Who, Rowling took inspiration from the French language with ‘vol’ meaning ‘flight’, ‘de’ meaning ‘of’ and ‘mort’ meaning ‘death’. This not only sounds cool, but it also describes the character’s driving motivations. The proper pronunciation of the name\u00a0could perhaps have been better communicated to some of the actors in the movies though.<\/p>\n

3 <\/span>He Was A Man Of Many Names<\/h2>\n
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Speaking of names \u2013 even if it is one that’s not supposed to be spoken \u2013 Voldemort is a man of many. Fans of the series should be acquainted with most of them, but there are some that\u00a0many will have never encountered.\u00a0Most will tell you that Voldemort’s real name is Tom Marvolo Riddle, but that’s not entirely true. At least not for some of\u00a0those who only read the books, that is.<\/p>\n

In order to fit in with the fantastic “I am Lord Voldemort” reveal in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets<\/em>, Voldemort’s name was changed in many foreign language versions of the book. In French, for example, he is known as\u00a0Tom Elvis Jedusor (‘Je Suis Voldemort’) while in Dutch language versions of the book he’s called Marten Asmodom Vilijn (‘Mijn naam is Voldemort’). Pretty much every foreign language version\u00a0makes changes in this regard with some being drastically different from the original.<\/p>\n

2 <\/span>He Was Named After A Real Person<\/h2>\n
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Voldemort may be derived from French, but the origins of the name Tom Riddle can be traced back to a cemetery in Scotland.\u00a0Greyfriars Kirk can be found in the\u00a0heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town and is just a stone’s throw away from the cafe where J.K. Rowling wrote parts of the Harry Potter<\/em> books. It’s there that a father and son named Thomas Riddle were laid to rest.<\/p>\n

The graveyard is thought to have inspired several other characters from the books including Professor McGonagall, Alastor Moody, and\u00a0Rufus Scrimgeour to name but a few. As a result, it’s not uncommon for fans of the series to make a pilgrimage to the church in order to see these tombstones for themselves.<\/p>\n

1 <\/span>His Infamous DAtDA Curse Was Inspired By\u00a0A Mockumentary<\/h2>\n
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Before cutting off his nose and shaving his head, a young Tom Riddle twice applied for the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at his\u00a0alma mater. Sadly, however, he\u00a0was knocked back on both occasions. Following the second rejection, he placed a curse on the position\u00a0preventing anyone from holding the post for more than a year. According to J.K. Rowling, this was inspired by the 1984 movie This is Spinal Tap<\/em> in which the titular band’s drummers frequently ended up dead.<\/p>\n

The curse may at first seem like a petty and spiteful\u00a0response to rejection, but it actually helped the Dark Lord in later years. With nobody able to hold onto the post for more than a year, young witches and wizards never really learned how to protect themselves from\u00a0dark magic. Whether this was all part of some brilliant plan or just a happy coincidence isn’t entirely clear, but it certainly\u00a0made life considerably easier for Voldemort and his followers.<\/p>\n

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