How did Voldemort become evil?

Riddle stunned Morfin and took his wand, went over to the Riddle House and, using his uncle's wand, murdered his father, grandfather, and grandmother with the Killing Curse. Riddle covered up his crimes by altering Morfin's memory, causing him to believe that he was the killer.
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Why did Voldemort turn so evil?

Voldemort is motivated by immortality, superiority, racial cleansing, and more than a bit of self-hatred. Many of these things are shown in earlier books in the series, but become crystallized in the sixth. Tom Riddle has a witch mother and a Muggle father, making him a half-blood wizard.
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Who made Tom Riddle evil?

His Mother Seduced His Father With A Love Potion

While some fans dismiss this as just one more bit of magic in the world of Harry Potter, the ugly truth is that Tom Riddle's mother committed a serious crime. She magically forced a man to be with her against his will, and this is how Tom was conceived.
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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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How Tom Riddle Became So Evil



Is Voldemort a virgin?

By the time he was Lord Voldemort (despite what I said earlier about the graveyard scene), Tom Riddle had become fully and completely asexual. So my answer to the question is yes, Lord Voldemort was a virgin.
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Is Tom Riddle handsome?

According to the Headmaster Dumbledore, Tom Riddle was the most talented student. He appeared to be extraordinarily handsome and extremely polite. However, deep under he was cruel, manipulative, psychopathic, and downright evil.
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Why did Voldemort turn white?

It's because of him meddling with the dark arts, with each horcrux he created it somehow changed his appearance, it was said by Dumbledore "Yet it fitted, Lord Voldemort had seemed to grow less human with the passing years, and the transformation he had undergone seemed to me to be only explicable if his soul was ...
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Why did Voldemort look like a snake?

Snakes were friends, proof of his special talents, and could be coerced into doing his bidding. Years later, Voldemort would disfigure himself in a strikingly snake-life way, transforming his nose into flat, colorless slits and ridding himself of hair.
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Is Tom Riddle related to Slytherin?

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.
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Is Tom Riddle a Mudblood?

But Being a Mudblood, Voldemort Proved himself a Great Dark Wizard and Instead Intended to Clear off the Way for Slytherins to keep up Pure Blood Running through their Viens.
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Was Voldemort's mother evil?

Harry Potter: Voldemort Was Evil Because of His Mother's Twisted Mistake. A problematic series of decisions from Voldemort's mother decades before the events of Harry Potter might explain why Voldemort became evil.
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Why does Voldemort have no nose?

Following is the accepted answer from there. Voldemort's appearance became more snake-like as he delved deeper into Dark Magic, and his face became more serpentine, which would presumably explain the flattening of his nose.
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Why did Bellatrix call Harry half-blood?

Harry is a half-blood, like the half-blood prince, because his mother was a muggleborn (aka a mud-blood). In the wizarding world there are: purebloods: those with wizard parents and grandparents. muggleborns: those with muggle parents and grandparents.
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Is Dumbledore a half-blood?

He was a half-blood wizard, the son of Percival and Kendra Dumbledore, and the elder brother of Aberforth and Ariana.
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Is Dumbledore pureblood?

An interesting fact of note is that despite the ideals that pure-bloods are inherently more powerful wizards, some of the most powerful or particularly adept wizards and witches in the series are in fact either half-blood (such as Lord Voldemort, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape and Harry Potter) or ...
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Was Bellatrix pregnant in the Half-Blood Prince?

Helena Bonham Carter, who portrays Bellatrix in the films, was pregnant during the filming of the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Her pregnancy seems noticeable (but not too far along) during the scene at Spinner's End.
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Did Tom Riddle love his mother?

No. He never loved anyone. JK Rowling confirmed this in a Q&A in 2004. Has Voldemort or Tom Riddle ever cared for or loved anyone?
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How did Voldemort drink unicorn blood?

History. In 1992, Lord Voldemort used unicorn blood to sustain his life, until he could steal the Philosopher's Stone in order to regain his true body. As he was possessing Quirinus Quirrell and inhabiting his body at the time, Quirrell drank the blood on Voldemort's behalf.
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Why Hagrid is a Death Eater?

Hagrid might act suspiciously at times, with his bumbling mannerisms and strange living habits - but is Hagrid a Death Eater? /u/Whoofph's theory is that Hagrid is actually putting up a large facade, spending the entire saga acting as a conspiring agent of the dark arts, benefiting the success of He-Who-Must-Not-Be- ...
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Why was Hagrid executed?

Hagrid attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1940 and was sorted into Gryffindor house. In Hagrid's third year, he was framed by Tom Riddle for the crime of opening the Chamber of Secrets and using his pet Acromantula to attack several Muggle-born students and eventually killing one of them.
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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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