Credit Confusion". MuggleNet. Archived from the original on 29 October 2007 . Retrieved 7 January 2007. Anderton, Ethan (11 September 2015). "J.K. Rowling Clarifies Voldemort Pronunciation in Harry Potter". /Film . Retrieved 27 April 2018. Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Northern Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) may take longer to reach you. Dumbledore discovers the real culprit while visiting Morfin in Azkaban to gather information about Voldemort. After Dumbledore successfully extracts Morfin's memory of his encounter with his nephew, he tries to use the evidence to have Morfin released, but Morfin dies before the decision can be made. The House of Gaunt ended with Morfin's death.

He feels no need for human companionship or friendship, and cannot comprehend love or affection for another. He believes he is superior to everyone around him, to the point that he frequently refers to himself in the third person as "Lord Voldemort". [42] Rowling also stated that Voldemort is "incredibly power hungry. Racist, really", [43] and that if Voldemort were to look into the Mirror of Erised, in which one sees one's greatest desire, he would see "Himself, all-powerful and eternal. That's what he wants." [44] A Good Scare". Time. No.43. 30 October 2000. Archived from the original on 14 January 2008 . Retrieved 3 November 2008. Rowling, J.K. (2007). "The Battle of Hogwarts". Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bloomsbury. ISBN 1551929767.

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. [35] Portrayals within films Young Tom in his fifth year at Hogwarts as played by Christian Coulson in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Steel, Sharon (20 September 2007). "Challenging Voldemedia". The Boston Phoenix. Boston, Massachusetts: Phoenix Media. In a segment celebrating British children's literature at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London, an inflatable Voldemort appeared alongside other villains, The Queen of Hearts, Captain Hook, and Cruella de Vil, to haunt children's dreams, before the arrival of a group of over thirty Mary Poppins who descended with their umbrellas to defeat them. [74] Jensen, Jeff (7 September 2000). " 'Fire' Storm". Entertainment Weekly. New York City: Meredith Corporation . Retrieved 2 April 2018. Lydon, Christopher (12 October 1999). "J.K. Rowling interview transcript". The Connection ( WBUR-FM) . Retrieved 2 April 2018.

IGN listed Voldemort as their seventh favourite Harry Potter character, calling him "truly frightening". [67] In popular culture In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, it is revealed that Bellatrix gave birth to Voldemort's daughter Delphi in Malfoy Manor before the Battle of Hogwarts. Twenty-two years later, Delphi poses as Cedric's cousin and manipulates Harry and Ginny's second son Albus Severus Potter and his friend, Draco and Astoria Greengrass's son Scorpius Malfoy, into stealing a prototype Time Turner with which she hopes to resurrect her father. Using the Time Turner, Scorpius accidentally creates an alternative timeline where Voldemort killed Harry at the battle and now rules the wizarding world. In an attempt to achieve this future, Delphi travels to Godric's Hollow on the night Voldemort killed Harry's parents, hoping to avert the prophecy that led to her father's downfall. After receiving a message from his son, Harry, together with Ron, Hermione and Draco (who by now has become friends with Harry after they join forces to save their respective sons) transfigures himself into Voldemort so that he can distract Delphi, allowing them to overpower her. The real Voldemort kills Harry's parents as prophesied, and Delphi is sent to Azkaban.Rowling, J.K. (2007). "The Final Hiding Place". Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bloomsbury. ISBN 1551929767. Voldemort appears in The Lego Batman Movie as one of the prisoners in the Phantom Zone that Joker recruits to take over Gotham City. Though Ralph Fiennes is featured in this movie as the voice of the British butler Alfred Pennyworth, he does not reprise his role as Voldemort. Instead, Voldemort is voiced by Eddie Izzard. [76] a b Murray, Duncan (26 May 2022). "Tanya Plibersek says sorry for stinging insult of Peter Dutton". news.com.au . Retrieved 26 May 2022. Voldemort has been parodied in various venues. In The Simpsons 13th season's premiere, " Treehouse of Horror XII", Montgomery Burns appears as "Lord Montymort". [69] A parody of Voldemort appears in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as "Lord Moldybutt", an enemy of Nigel Planter (a parody of Harry). [70] Voldemort also appears in the Potter Puppet Pals sketches by Neil Cicierega. One of the episodes including him was the seventeenth most viewed video of all time as of 2008 and the winner for "Best Comedy" of the year 2007 at YouTube. [71] Marvolo Gaunt was the last family patriarch. He was sentenced to a short term in Azkaban for his and his son's assault upon a Ministry of Magic official; this affected his health and he died soon after returning home. His signet ring passed to his son, Morfin Gaunt, who was convicted of assaulting a Muggle, and later died in Azkaban, convicted this time as a party to the murder of Tom Riddle Jr. and Riddle's parents. [23]

All images are used with permission from The Tonner Doll Company, Inc,. and the images were taken by Storm Photography in Kingston, NY.Rowling, J.K. (2007). "The Elder Wand". Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bloomsbury. ISBN 1551929767.

a b Rowling, J.K. (2000). "The Parting of the Ways". Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Bloomsbury. ISBN 074754624X. Jordan, Tina (20 October 2007). "J.K. Rowling outs Dumbledore!". Entertainment Weekly. New York City: Meredith Corporation . Retrieved 8 July 2014. In the second book, Rowling establishes that Voldemort hates non- pure-blood wizards, despite being a half-blood himself. In a 2000 interview with the BBC, Rowling described Voldemort as a self-hating bully: "Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that's what Voldemort does." [9] In the same year, Rowling became more precise about Voldemort. She began to link him to real-life tyrants, describing him as "a raging psychopath, devoid of the normal human responses to other people's suffering". [10] In 2004, though, Rowling said that she did not base Voldemort on any real person. [ citation needed] In 2006, Rowling told an interviewer that Voldemort at his core has a human fear: the fear of death. She said: "Voldemort's fear is death, ignominious death. I mean, he regards death itself as ignominious. He thinks that it's a shameful human weakness, as you know. His worst fear is death." [11] a b Anelli, Melissa; Spartz, Emerson (16 July 2005). "The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet interview Joanne Kathleen Rowling: Part Two". The Leaky Cauldron . Retrieved 2 April 2018.Rowling, J.K. (1999). "Professor Trelawney's Prediction". Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Bloomsbury. ISBN 0747542155.