Voldemort

=Voldemort= Melissa Diamond Lord Voldemort is the central villain in the Harry Potter series. Dubbed by J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, as the most evil wizard in hundreds of years, Voldemort parallels despised historical figures such as Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Sadaam Hussein. Voldemort’s mother descended from an ancient wizarding family, related to one of the original Hogwarts Headmasters Salazar Slytherin. This family, the Gaunts, is famous, like many other ancient wizarding families, for their hatred of non-magical people. Voldemort’s family often interbred to avoid ‘contamination’ from impure wizards. This incest caused violent and manic tendencies within Voldemort’s family. Voldemort’s mother bewitched a nonmagical, or muggle, man to fall in love with her. Voldemort’s ‘unnatural’ conception represents how his character defies nature. Voldemort’s mother released his father from the spell he was under, in hopes of his falling in love with her naturally, or staying to help raise the baby she was pregnant with. Voldemort’s father abandoned Voldemort’s pregnant mother. In despair, Voldemort’s mother stumbled into an orphanage to give birth to Voldemort, and died within an hour. Voldemort, then called Tom Riddle grew up in this orphanage, without any knowledge of the wizarding world until he was eleven years old. At eleven, Tom Riddle was invited to Hogwarts School of Wizarding and Witchcraft. There, Tom Riddle learned about his family’s history, and developed a hatred of muggles, and wizards born into muggle families. Riddle adopted the name Voldemort while at Hogwarts, and surrounded himself with devoted minions, who also hated muggles, and muggle born wizards. At Hogwarts few people were aware of how evil Voldemort truly was, he seemed to be the brightest, and most powerful student to ever attend Hogwarts. While still a student at Hogwarts, Voldemort started to make Horcruxes. Horcruxes are a magical device used to hide part of one’s soul. If the person’s body were to die, part of their soul would be safely tucked away in a horcrux, and he could be resurrected. A horcrux is considered evil because, one must kill another person in order to make one, and they split the soul into pieces. Voldemort abdicated his humanity by making six horcruxes, to become immortal. Once out of Hogwarts, Voldemort, and his followers, called Death Eaters, began their reign of terror. Voldemort would have ‘impure wizards’ killed, and tried to take over the ministry of magic. People were so afraid of Voldemort, that they could not even call him by his name. Most people referred to him as You-Know-Who. Harry Potter is Voldemort’s archenemy. When Harry was born, a prophecy said that he would be the only one who could kill Voldemort. To prevent this Voldemort killed Harry’s parents, and tried to kill Harry. However, Voldemort’s killing curse failed, because Harry’s mother’s sacrifice put a magical protection over Harry. The killing curse rebounded, destroying Voldemort. The horcruxes protected Voldemort from dying, but it took him thirteen years to regain a body. Once resurrected, Voldemort continued his attempts to take over the ministry of magic, ethnically cleanse the wizarding world of muggle born, and impure wizards, and kill the one person who could defeat him, Harry Potter. In the end, Harry Potter defeated Voldemort. His killing curse once again rebounded off of Harry, and hit him, however Harry had destroyed all of Voldemort’s horcruxes, so when the killing curse hit Voldemort it killed him permanently. Voldemort embodies evil. Voldemort is an impure wizard because he has a muggle for a father, however he seeks to destroy all impure wizards beside himself. Thus, he is a self-loathing racist. Further Voldemort considers himself superior to all humans, and seeks to destroy every link that tethers him to humanity. He has a crippling fear of death, (he considers dying to be a weak human action), a blinding ego, and an inability to love, or form any closer attachments than a master slave relationship. Voldemort relishes killing and destruction, making him highly sadistic. He is also brilliant, and incredibly powerful. He possesses rare talents such as, the ability to fly without any assistance, disappear silently, read and control minds, and communicate with snakes. Voldemort in many ways acts as a foil to the protagonist Harry Potter, or Harry at least comes to be a foil to Voldemort by the end of the series. Harry willingly gives his own life to save his friends, while Voldemort would never do anything for anyone else, and would never have the stregnth to die by his own will. Voldemort seeks to destroy his humanity, while Harry clings to his human trait. In the first book Voldemort sums up his philosophy to Harry Potter by saying, "There is no good and evil, there is only power...and those too weak to seek it." This quotation shows how Voldemort lacks any morals, and believes that power gives people the right to do whatever they want, which includes killing weaker, and in his mind, more deserving entities.

 1) This picture depicts Voldemorts Character very accurately. The first apparent trait is Voldemort's shear power. He holds himself in a commanding attack position, as if manipulating a so vast energy, which asserts his undeniable strength and talent. 2) His features reflect how inhuman he is, his greenish skin, bald head, and lip and nose free face strip him of any outward human-like qualities, and elude to similar internal traits. His expression shows his spiteful nature. 3)He appears to utter some sort of hateful battle cry, which simply emanates anger. 4)The blackness of his clothing, the only thing he ever wears, represents the evil and blackness of his twisted soul. 5)Finally, the side view of the image adds to the mysterious nature of Voldemort. Very little is known about him, and he derives much of his power through fear and misunderstanding. The side view also reflects how the public for most of the series is to afraid to confront him, or even acknowledge his existence directly.

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