Lord Voldemort

 Lord Voldemort

Biographical information

Full Name

Tom Marvolo Riddle

Date of Birth

December 31, 1926, Wool's Orphanage, London

Blood status

Half-blood

Marital status

Married

Also known as

• Lord Voldemort (self-proclaimed title and chosen name)
• You-Know-Who (used by those who are too afraid or if it is too dangerous to refer to him by his chosen name)
• He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named (used along the same line as "You-Know-Who")
• The Dark Lord
• Your Lordship (used by Wormtail)
• Chief Death Eater (used by Lee Jordan) 
• Heir of Slytherin

Title(s)

• Perfect

• Head Boy

• Dark Lord

Physical information

Species

Human

Gender

Male

Hair Color

Bald (formerly black)

Eye color

Red (formerly dark brown)

Skin color

White (formerly pale)

Family information

Children

Salazar Riddle (son of Hermione)

Parents

• Tom Riddle Sr. † (father)

• Merope Gaunt † (mother)

In-laws

• Draco Malfoy (brother-in-law)

• Lucius Malfoy † (father-in-law)

• Narcissa Black-Malfoy † (mother-in-law)

• Bellatrix Black-Lestrange † (aunt-in-law)

• Andromeda Black-Tonks (aunt-in-law)

• Ted Tonks † (uncle-in-law)

Grandparents

• Thomas Riddle † (paternal grandfather) 

• Mary Riddle † (paternal grandmother) 

• Marvolo Gaunt † (maternal grandfather)

Uncles

Morfin Gaunt † (maternal uncle)

Ancestors

• Salazar Slytherin † (ancestor)

• Cadmus Peverell † (ancestor)

• Corvinus Gaunt † (antecedent)

Descendants

• James Potter † (a distant cousin)

• Harry Potter † (a distant cousin)

Relationships

Allies

• Abraxas Malfoy † (formerly)
• Lucius Malfoy † (formerly)
• Draco Malfoy (possibly)
• Death Eaters
• Prof. Dolores Umbridge
• Narcissa Malfoy † (formerly)
• Bellatrix Lestrange †
• Antonin Dolohov †
• Barty Crouch Jr. †

Romances

• Hermione Granger (wife)

• Bellatrix Black-Lestrange † (possible lover)

Enemies

• Harry Potter †
• Ron Weasley †
• Ministry of Magic
• Order of the Phoenix
• Lucius Malfoy †
• Narcissa Malfoy †

Magical characteristics

Boggart

His own lifeless body

Wand

• 13½", Yew, phoenix feather core

• 18", Elm, dragon heartstring (temporary)

• 15", Elder, Thestral tail hair core (never mastered) 

Patronus

None (can't cast a Patronus)

Affiliation

Occupation

Assistant at Borgin and Burke's (formerly)

Location

• Malfoy Mansion (currently)

• Albania (formerly)

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (formerly)

• Wool's Orphanage (formerly)

House

Slytherin

Loyalty

• House of Gaunt (formerly)

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (formerly)

• Slytherin

• Slug Club

• Tom Riddle's gang

• Borgin and Burke

• Death Eaters

• British Ministry of Magic (under his control)

Lord Voldemort, born Tom Marvolo Riddle, was the son of Merope Gaunt (a pure-blood and a descendant of Salazar Slytherin) and Tom Riddle, a handsome, wealthy Muggle from Little Hangleton whom Merope ensnared with a love potion. When her husband found out she was a witch, he abandoned her while she was pregnant. Tom’s mother died shortly after giving birth to him on December 31, living just long enough to name him Tom Riddle, after his father, and Marvolo, after his grandfather.

Tom Marvolo Riddle, the half-blood orphan, was to transform himself into Lord Voldemort and take control of the Wizarding World by manipulating the festering relationship between pureblood and Muggle-born wizards. Eventually, he would lose all – not because he lacked power, but because of his ruthless methods, his inability to love or trust anyone but himself, and his belief in his own infallibility. As he told Quirrell, he believed that “there is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.”

Early Years

The dark wizard known as “Lord Voldemort” was born in 1926 in an orphanage in London. His mother, a witch and, according to Voldemort, a descendant of Salazar Slytherin, had fallen in love with Tom Riddle, a Muggle. Tom Riddle lived in a fine-looking manor that stood on a hill overlooking the village of Little Hangleton. The manor house was one of the largest and grandest buildings for miles around. When Voldemort’s mother told her husband that she was a witch, he abandoned her, returning to his parents’ home. As Lord Voldemort told the story, his father “didn’t like magic.” Voldemort’s mother died just after giving birth to him, living just long enough to name him Tom Riddle, after his father, and Marvolo, after his grandfather. He was raised in a Muggle orphanage.

For the first eleven years of his life, Tom was raised in a clean but grim Muggle orphanage in London. As he got older, he began to steal things and appeared to cause “nasty” things to happen to the other children and to pets around the orphanage (HBP13).