What made Voldemort 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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How did Tom Riddle turn into Voldemort?

Splitting his own spirit into a total of eight fragments, Riddle created an unprecedented seven Horcruxes, one unintentionally and without his knowledge — Harry Potter. Abandoning his 'Muggle' name, he became the self-proclaimed Lord Voldemort, which was an anagram of his birth name.
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Was Voldemort a pure evil?

After all, no other wizard is stated to become as evil as Voldemort, despite the inevitability of some of them being the result of Love Potions, showing that Voldemort personally was uniquely evil and of his own right.
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What evil things has Voldemort done?

Harry Potter: 20 Most Wicked Things Voldemort Did Before Sorcerer's Stone
  • 20 Attacked Animals in His Orphanage. ...
  • 19 Stole From Other Orphans. ...
  • 18 The Incident In The Cave. ...
  • 17 Presided Over His Hogwarts Friends Like A Cult Leader. ...
  • 16 Opened The Chamber Of Secrets. ...
  • 15 Took Out His Family. ...
  • 14 Framed His Uncle.
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What made Voldemort powerful?

Voldemort was talented in magic from a young age. He was able to manipulate other living things even though he didn't have a wand to channel this power. It is likely, though not confirmed, that his talent for magic is derived from his ancestor, Salazar Slytherin.
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Who is stronger than Voldemort?

Filius Flitwick is one of the many Hogwarts professors that are more powerful than Voldemort. He was a masterful wizard and an experienced professor.
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Who is the strongest wizard?

1 Albus Dumbledore

He was revered and respected for his magic and commanding energy, as well as personal strength. It was truly due to Dumbledore's planning that Voldemort died, even if Harry was the one to cast the killing blow because Dumbledore is the most powerful wizard in the entire series.
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What was Lord Voldemort's goal?

Voldemort's obsession with blood purity signifies his aim to rid the wizarding world of Muggle (non-magical) heritage and to conquer both worlds, Muggle and wizarding, to achieve pure-blood dominance.
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Was Voldemort a good villain?

Pictures. A wise man once said that a hero is only as good as the villain who opposes him. I am all but certain that wise man was captured, tortured to excruciating effect, then blasted into smithereens by one Tom Marvolo Riddle, otherwise known as Lord Voldemort, the most awesome bad guy of all time.
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Is Tom Riddle a villain?

Tom Marvolo Riddle (December 31, 1926 - May 2, 1998), better known as Lord Voldemort, is the main antagonist of the Harry Potter franchise. He is the archenemy of the franchise's titular protagonist, as well as the murderer of his parents James and Lilly Potter respectively.
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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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Was Voldemort abused?

Not surprisingly, the one person who always seemed to see through the act was Dumbledore. Dumbledore had seen the true Tom Riddle when they first met: the boy who tortured, stole, and completely abused his powers.
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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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Is Tom Riddle half-blood?

Tom Riddle has a witch mother and a Muggle father, making him a half-blood wizard.
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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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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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What is Voldemort's mental illness?

On Lord Voldemort as a psychopath or sociopath

“There are psychologists who would argue there's really no difference, and in fact, if you consult the diagnostic manual, it would really lump them under one category, antisocial personality disorder.
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What is Voldemort's weakness?

Voldemort apparently believes nothing is worse than death; perhaps his greatest weakness is his inability to love. Voldemort's wand is made from yew wood and contains a phoenix feather core.
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Who was the villain before Voldemort?

The villain in the "Fantastic Beasts" movies is Gellert Grindelwald, who played a small but crucial role in the "Harry Potter" series. He was the wizarding world's biggest villain before Voldemort came along. In his youth, Grindelwald was friends with Albus Dumbledore, who was in love with him.
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Was Voldemort happy?

Hogwarts was where he had been happiest; the first and only place he had felt at home” (HBP 431). He wanted a post at Hogwarts, and not just for sentimental reasons (though those probably factored in). “He may have felt that there were still mysteries to unravel, stores of magic to tap” (HBP 431).
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Can Voldemort beat Dumbledore?

Albus Dumbledore is the most obvious person who can defeat Voldemort, and the Dark Lord seemed to realize it. Rowling herself has explicitly stated in the books that Dumbledore is the only person Voldemort fears and recognizes as a genuine threat to his own power.
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Who is the weakest wizard in Harry Potter?

Weak: Quirinus Quirrell

Although he was intelligent and bookish, Quirinus Quirrell was the weakest of the Hogwarts professors—mostly due to his extremely timid nature. He taught the Muggle Studies course for several years before going in search of the vanquished Voldemort.
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Is Dumbledore stronger than Voldemort?

[Harry Potter] Voldemort was more powerful than Dumbledore; Dumbledore was more powerful than Grindlewald. In some of the backstory of the Harry Potter books we learn that Dumbledore acquired the Elder Wand by defeating Grindlewald in a duel.
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Is Harry Potter weaker than Voldemort?

No, Voldemort was definitely more powerful - but that's the entire point. Harry's beating him because of the elder wand (and every other time he escaped Voldemort) was pure luck, luck that came about through the support of Dumbledore, Hermione, Ron, and everyone else in his life.
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Can you block Avada Kedavra?

During every major battle scene from book 5 onwards, the Death Eaters make extensive use of Avada Kedavra. It, like any spell, can be blocked by physical objects (though it doesn't seem to be stopped by magical shields), it can be dodged, and (as we see in the climax of book 4) it can be struck by other spells.
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