Lord Voldemort

Lord Voldemort (born Tom Marvolo Riddle) is the main antagonist of the Harry Potter main series and the overarching antagonist of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. He is one of the most powerful and most dangerous wizard of his generation who seeks to destroy Harry Potter, because, according to the prophecy, this young boy is the only person capable of defeating him. However, the only way to truly defeat him is by destroying all of Voldemort's horcruxes, magical objects that contain a fracture of his own soul. 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. He is the leader of the Death Eaters, a group of wizards and witches dedicated to ridding the Wizarding World of Muggles and establishing Voldemort as its supreme ruler.
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". 
In the film series, he was portrayed by Ralph Fiennes; Christian Coulson (16-year-old) in Chamber of Secrets, and both Hero Fiennes-Tiffin (11-year-old) and Frank Dillane (15-year-old) in Half-Blood Prince. In Philosopher's Stone, he was portrayed by Richard Bremmer in the flashback scene, but voiced by Ian Hart 
==Background==
==Book Canon==
===Harry Potter===
====Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone====
====Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets====
====Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban====
====Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire====
====Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix====
====Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince====
Voldemort does not appear in the sixth book and instead forces Draco to kill Albus Dumbledore because Lucius failed to obtain the prophecy relating to him and Harry. However, Voldemort is mentioned throughout the entire novel including his backstory. 
====Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows====
==Film Canon==
====Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone====
====Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets====
====Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban====
====Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire====
====Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince====
====Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows====
==powers and abilities==
Master Wizard/Fallen Wizardkind Physiology: 
*Magic
**Nonverbal/Wandless magic
**Curses
**Charms
**Potion brewing
** Occlumency and Legilimency
**Parselmouth
**Transfiguration
**Defense Against the Dark Arts:
**Spell Creation: Voldemort has invented spells that became Death Eater's trademark abilities, such as the Dark Mark summoning, unsupported flight, and ones devised to support his rudimentary body. Among said spells include defensive charms and curses put in his Horcruxes to make them difficult to break (even Elder Wand-assisted Dumbledore had trouble with doing so).
**Alchemy: Owing to his attempt to claim Nicholas Flamel's Philosopher's Stone in a bid to regain a new body, Voldemort mastered sufficient alchemical skills to be able to properly use a Philosopher's Stone.The extent of this skill was never revealed, due to Harry managing to secure the Stone—leading to its eventual destruction.
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