Did Voldemort become ghost?

Rowling stated that after his death, Voldemort is forced to exist in the stunted infant-like form that Harry sees in the King's Cross-like limbo after his confrontation with Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest. Rowling also mentioned that, despite his extreme fear of death, he cannot become a ghost.
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How did Voldemort become human again?

Pettigrew mixed up a potion for Voldemort using unicorn blood and the venom of Nagini. With this potion, they were able to create a new body for Lord Voldemort to finally return to.
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What did Voldemort split himself into?

Believing that the number seven is the most powerful number when it comes to magic, Voldemort intended to split his soul into seven pieces, with six Horcruxes housing one fragment each and his body containing the seventh.
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Where did Voldemort's soul go?

In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, after Harry killed Quirinus Quirrell, Voldemort's mangled soul left the dying body and pierced through Harry. (In the book, it is said that Voldemort "left" Quirrell, but whether he took on a smokelike physical form as in the movie goes unmentioned).
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Is Voldemort truly gone?

Yes. That was the point of showing his dead body at the end of the book. It shows he's dead and gone.
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What was Voldemort's end goal?

Voldemort's short-term goals are well defined: Killing Harry and achieving immortality. The former is a means to the latter. Voldemort needs to kill Harry for two reasons. First, Voldemort believes in the prophecy and needs to eliminate “the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord” (OotP 831).
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Does Hagrid know Tom Riddle is Voldemort?

In Half-Blood Prince when Dumbledore shows Harry the memories related to Voldemort he never mentions that Hagrid had any idea that Tom Riddle was Voldemort, even when they discussed the part about Riddle opening Chamber of Secrets and framing Hagrid for it.
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Are there 7 or 8 Horcruxes?

Yeah. There were 8 horcruxes. 7 were made by Voldemort intentionally ( Nagini, goblet, diary, locket, ring, diadem and the part of his soul in Voldemort himself) and 1 was made accidentally which was Harry.
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What is the Voldemort fetus?

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Voldemort's soul in Limbo greatly resembles the rudimentary body that Voldemort used during the film version of Goblet of Fire.
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How did Voldemort and Bellatrix have a baby?

Yep, that happened: Bellatrix and Voldemort had sex sometime around Order of the Phoenix or Half-Blood Prince, and their wild night in bed led to a child named Delphi Diggory/Riddle/Lestrange. According to Delphi herself, she was born sometime before the Battle of Hogwarts.
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Why didnt Voldemort split his soul more?

Voldemort was fixated on having his soul split into seven pieces, he assumed that it would provide him with additional protection. This is why he did not split his soul more by creating additional Horcruxes.
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Who was killed to create each Horcrux?

The diary dates back to when Voldemort was still Tom Marvolo Riddle. After opening the Chamber of Secrets, he used the Basilisk to kill Myrtle Warren, providing the murder necessary to craft a Horcrux. Voldemort entrusted his diary to Lucius Malfoy, who later seized the opportunity to smuggle it back into Hogwarts.
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Why didnt Voldemort make 7 Horcruxes?

Voldemort understood this; he knew the dangers of creating so many horcruxes, so he didn't dare to create any more even though he knew some of them were gone. It was too dangerous. He only wanted seven because seven was the most magically powerful number.
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Will Voldemort return in cursed child?

'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child': Voldemort returns in Rowling's 8th Potter book, seduces Harry' son Albus to dark side? - IBTimes India.
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Did Voldemort know Harry was a Horcrux?

Voldemort wasn't aware of Harry being a pseudo-horcrux because he didn't plan it, and Harry didn't know either until Voldemort “killed” him, but he actually killed the piece of soul kept in him.
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Why couldnt Voldemort touch Harry?

When Harry's mom sacrificed herself to protect him, she created a defensive barrier for Harry with her love. Voldemort cannot touch Harry directly because of this magic. He cannot harm Harry at the Dursleys because Lily's blood (Petunia being her sister) gives him protection there.
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Where did Voldemort go after death?

Rowling stated that after his death, Voldemort is forced to exist in the stunted infant-like form that Harry sees in the King's Cross-like limbo after his confrontation with Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest. Rowling also mentioned that, despite his extreme fear of death, he cannot become a ghost.
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How did Harry survive Avada Kedavra in the forest?

Voldemort intentionally made six Horcruxes, but when he used Avada Kedavra on Harry, he unintentionally created a seventh Horcrux. Instead of dying, Lily's love for Harry created a counter 'curse' known as Sacrificial Protection and saved Harry.
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How did Voldemort survive without a body?

We all know that little Harry Potter became the first, and so far only, wizard to ever survive a killing curse. We also know that Lord Voldemort unintentionally transformed Harry into one of his Horcruxes. Furthermore, we know that Voldemort survived that night because of the existing Horcruxes he had already created.
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Is Quirrell a Horcrux?

Quirrell is, in effect, turned into a temporary Horcrux by Voldemort. He is greatly depleted by the physical strain of fighting the far stronger, evil soul inside him.
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What was the last Horcrux?

Nagini is the last horcrux that Voldemort created and the last one to be destroyed. During the final battle of Hogwarts, Neville pulls the sword of Godric Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat and beheads Nagini, destroying the last horcrux.
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How did Dumbledore destroy the ring?

After Dumbledore returned to Hogwarts, he used Godric Gryffindor's Sword to crack the Resurrection Stone so as to destroy it as a Horcrux. While the act did destroy the ring as one of Riddle's Horcruxes, it did not stop the fatal curse. The curse gave Dumbledore's hand a withered black look, as though it had died.
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Who was Voldemort before he became Voldemort?

However, as much as the evil of Lord Voldemort is seen and felt throughout the story, many fans don't know about his humble beginnings, back when he was known only as “Tom Riddle.” The last name is appropriate, too, as his childhood and teenage years (which were invariably filled with torture, death, and seduction) ...
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Who knew Tom Riddle was Voldemort?

Particularly with Tom Riddle asking him about horcruxes, and Dumbledore later coming around to collect memories about Tom Riddle. Helena Ravenclaw (ghost) knew the identity of Tom Riddle as the person to whom she gave the location of the diadem, and who subsequently became Lord Voldemort.
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Why didn't people know Voldemort was Tom Riddle?

It's just never really addressed. I think it is safe to assume most people who knew Voldemort was Tom Riddle were Slytherins who went to Hogwarts at the same time as him. Most of them would be grandparents or great-grandparents by the first book and most of these probably never spoke of it.
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