What was Voldemort biggest mistake?

Philosophy of Voldemort: Voldemort's biggest mistake wasn't creating Horcruxes, believing in Prophecies or going after Harry, but underestimating everyone. He was so arrogant that he believed everyone else inferior to himself & incapable of achieving the slightest of his own achievements.
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Why was Voldemort using Harrys blood a mistake?

Voldemort believed, out of his lack of understanding love, that by using Harry's blood, it would allow him to bypass Lily's protection and thereby enable him to circumvent what the boy has which robbed him of power years ago, when in fact it actually strengthened it.
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What was Voldemort's reason for being 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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What was Voldemort's final 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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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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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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What terrible things did Voldemort do?

Many witches and wizards joined his cause, as they supported his evil views. Voldemort also used the Imperius Curse on many people as well, forcing them into his ranks. He would also blackmail others, or convince dark creatures that they were being persecuted in order to persuade them into joining his cause.
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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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Why could Voldemort touch Harry in Goblet of Fire?

In the graveyard in the Goblet of Fire, Voldemort was able to freely touch Harry without harm once he possessed Harry's blood (which contained Lily's sacrificial protection).
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Why did Lucius wand fail Voldemort?

It was later explained to Harry that the reason his wand had acted the way it did was due to the unique connection between himself and Voldemort. His wand had sensed Voldemort's presence both as "brother" and "mortal enemy" and reacted, despite the fact that Voldemort was using another wand at the time.
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What spell did Lily use to protect Harry?

In dying, Lily set the path for Voldemort's downfall. Her sacrifice gave Harry the power of love, a protection spell sealed with the blood spilled by her death.
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Was Voldemort raped?

The reason Voldemort hated his Muggle father was because his father left his mother to die when she was pregnant. But, later, Dumbledore discovered that Voldemort's father was actually a victim. Voldemort's mother actually raped him with the help of a love potion (and, that's how she got pregnant).
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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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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 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 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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How did Voldemort turn into a baby?

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. However, this body was not what Voldemort needed to return to his fearful leadership form. Instead, it was that of a scaly, hairless baby.
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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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Who did Voldemort love?

Voldemort was said to have been incapable of love, in the Harry Potter series. His own birth was the result of a love potion that Merope had used on his father, Tom Riddle Senior. So, it is surprising that the Dark Lord had a child with Bellatrix willingly.
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Why does Bellatrix call Harry a 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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What is Voldemort's greatest fear?

Voldemort's greatest fear is death and as a result a boggart takes the form of his own corpse. It is unsurprising that this is Voldemort's biggest fear. After all, he did split his soul up encasing it in various horcruxes just so to keep himself from dying.
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Who was more powerful Grindelwald or Voldemort?

Not only is Grindelwald more powerful than Voldemort, but he's also a more compelling villain, which is why audiences will be seeing more of him in Fantastic Beasts 3.
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Who made Voldemort weak?

If his horcruxes were intact, how was he so weak in the first one? Because his body was destroyed by his rebounded killing curse. Horcruxes don't make one strong, they tether one to life. He's an angry cloud.
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Who got raped in Harry Potter?

Dolores Umbridge is perhaps the one person in the whole Harry Potter universe who is virtually impossible to like, no matter what angle you choose to piss on her from. Well, unless you count the part where she is abducted and gang raped by centaurs in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
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