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Lord
Voldemort
Lord Voldemort
represents pure evil. As the dark villain in the Harry Potter
series, he is darkness personified, a pitiless monster who feeds on
torment and death.
Ralph Fiennes as the reincarnated Lord
Voldemort in the Harry
Potter movies
The author
of Harry Potter, JK Rowling, does a fantastic job of
capturing this dark lord
on paper, giving us just enough to convey his
nature without drowning us in detail.
Throughout
the series I waited to see Voldemort’s human side, some indication
that he was capable of kindness, mercy, sympathy or compassion. I
waited in vain. Not once do we see Voldemort falter from his
dark
path. Everything he does is to satisfy his lust for power, control and dominance over
others.
Even in childhood Voldemort was a monster,
which is apparent in the details Rowling gives us of his life, which
are as follows:
Lord Voldemort’s real name is Tom
Marvolo Riddle. He is conceived as the result of trickery,
after his mother uses a love
potion to seduce his father. His mother dies shortly after
giving birth to him and his father has long since abandoned them both.
Tom goes to live in an orphanage
where he gets his kicks from torturing other kids. Once released, he
enrols at Hogwart's
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
There he becomes outwardly a model pupil while secretly continuing his
sadistic ways. Driven by hatred for the father and grandparents who
abandoned him, he tracks them down and murders them. Thus begins his
rise as the dark lord.
On
the night that Voldemort murders Harry Potter’s
parents for opposing him, he makes a fateful mistake. After killing Mr
and Mrs Potter, he unleashes
a deadly curse on the infant Harry, which rebounds on Voldemort and
destroys his body (but
doesn't end his life), while
leaving the child unharmed. In that instance part of Voldemort's soul
seeps into Harry Potter, and makes him the one wizard who can
destroy Voldemort completely.
From that moment on the two of them are bound together, their destiny’s
intertwined. As the prophecy in Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix reveals, “Neither can live while the other
survives.”
Harry Potter (Daniel
Radcliffe) is
possessed by Lord Voldemort in this scene from the 2007 movie Harry Potter and the Order of
the Phoenix
The
only thing in the world Voldemort fears is his own demise. And it is
this that Harry alone can bring to pass.
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