Lord Voldemort

## Tom Marvolo Riddle

* Elder, 15", Thestral tail hair core (temporary, never mastered; mastered in an alternate timeline created by Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter)

## Affiliation

### Occupation

Shop assistant at Borgin and Burkes (formerly)

### Loyalty

* House of Gaunt (formerly)
* Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (formerly)
	+ Slytherin
	+ Slug Club
* Borgin and Burkes
* Death Eaters
* British Ministry of Magic (only under his control)

Tom Marvolo Riddle (31 December 1926 – 2 May 1998), later known as Lord Voldemort or, alternatively as the Dark Lord, You-Know-Who, or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was an English half-blood wizard considered to have been the most powerful and dangerous Dark wizard of all time. He was amongst the greatest wizards to have ever lived, rivalled only by Albus Dumbledore. Descended from Salazar Slytherin on his mother's side through the House of Gaunt, Tom Riddle was conceived whilst his father, Tom Riddle Senior, was under the effects of a love potion supplied by his mother, Merope Gaunt. When the enchantment was lifted, Tom's father abandoned his pregnant wife and returned to Little Hangleton. His mother died within an hour of giving birth to him. Before she died, she stated that her son was to be named after his father (Tom) and maternal grandfather, Marvolo Gaunt. Tom was raised in the Muggle-run Wool's Orphanage.

Tom began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1938 and was immediately sorted into Slytherin house. During this time, Tom discovered his heritage and adopted pure-blood supremacist ideals. Tom opened the Chamber of Secrets and used its monster, the Basilisk, to attack Muggle-born students, resulting in the death of Myrtle Warren. He began his quest to attain immortality between the years of 1943 and 1998, creating his first Horcrux at the age of sixteen. While attending Hogwarts, Tom Riddle was made a prefect in 1942 until his graduation in 1945.
Tom spent several months as a purchasing agent for the Dark artefacts shop Borgin and Burkes before disappearing. Splitting his own spirit into a total of eight fragments, Tom created an unprecedented seven Horcruxes, with one made later in his life, unintentionally and without his knowledge — Harry Potter. Tom re-emerged several decades later having abandoned his 'Muggle' name and becoming the self-proclaimed Lord Voldemort, an anagram of his birth name. In the First and Second Wizarding Wars, he commanded a veritable army of wizards and Dark creatures; committed countless murders and atrocities; and eventually succeeded in taking over the British Ministry of Magic.

Voldemort was ripped from his body in 1981 after attempting to kill Harry Potter. Although unable to die, he was unable to regain a permanent and physical body until 1995, thus spending the intervening fourteen years as 'a shell, less than the meanest ghost'. He was finally killed by his own backfired Killing Curse after Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore succeeded in destroying all of his Horcruxes.
Unknown to most, however, Voldemort's legacy and bloodline would live on through his daughter Delphini, whom he conceived with his loyal follower Bellatrix Lestrange. The conception is thought to have occurred sometime after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in 1996 and before Voldemort's death at Harry's hands in 1998.

Riddle's broken and mutilated soul was then trapped in limbo for eternity, unable to move on to the afterlife or even return as a disembodied spirit.

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3. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*, Chapter 13 (*The Very Secret Diary*) - ''Half-blood, sir,' said Riddle. 'Muggle father, witch mother.''
4. ↑ He was first known as this when he was 16.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 He was known as this when people were scared of the name Voldemort.
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7. ↑ Known as this by Death Eaters and occasionally Albus Dumbledore. He is also referred as such by non-followers when a poetic effect is intended.
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9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*, Chapter 17 (*The Heir of Slytherin*)
10. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*, Chapter 10 (*The Marauder's Map*)
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13. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child*, Act Three, Scene Twenty-one
14. ↑ 'The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet interview Joanne Kathleen Rowling: Part Two,' The Leaky Cauldron, 16 July 2005
15. ↑ Albus Dumbledore Fact file at Template:PM (via the Internet Archive) Template:See image
16. ↑ Leaky Cauldron: J.K. Rowling Webchat 30 July 2007
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19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone*, Chapter 5 (*Diagon Alley*)