Rowling 's original book series and giving younger fans nightmares for years to come. Arguably Fiennes' most memorable moment came during Voldemort's fated final showdown with Harry on the grounds of Hogwarts. Harry Potter fans won't have to try too hard to see what else Fiennes has been up to. The actor is currently set to continue his role as M in the James Bond franchise, will star in the upcoming Kingsman prequel The King's Man and was nominated for a small army of awards for 's The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Related: Why J. Playing Lord Voldemort became a family affair in The Half-Blood Prince , when Ralph Fiennes' nephew was cast to play the year old version of the future mass-murderer. Hero Fiennes-Tiffin appeared when Dumbledore and Harry began diving into memories that would help them find a way to defeat the growing threat of Voldemort once and for all. Predictably, it was widely suggested that Hero landed the part thanks to his famous relation and while director, David Yates, has admitted their resemblance was a factor, he also insisted that Hero had excelled during auditions, managing to exude Voldemort's darkness better than other candidates.
Certainly, it's difficult to argue with those sentiments. Despite an outwardly innocent appearance, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin has the "creepy child" trope nailed down and the audience readily accept that this young child will one day torment the wizarding world. An year old version of Voldemort also came close to appearing in The Half Blood Prince and Michael Berendt was cast as the adolescent evil-doer. However, these particular scenes were cut from the final script. An older Hero Fiennes-Tiffin recently appeared in romance movie, After.
When casting Voldemort at various ages for the multitude of flashbacks in The Half Blood Prince and beyond, a mid-teens version of the baddie was required. Christian Coulson was considered for the role but, having already been older than his character the first time around, was now nearing 30 and ruled out of contention by David Yates. After several names were put forward for the part, drama student and British actor Frank Dillane was cast, having only appeared as an extra in his previous projects.
One of the spinoff's original cast members, Nick was one of the zombie show's main survivors until his untimely death in season 4. Despite having precious little to do with the Dark Knight , Voldemort makes an appearance in the LEGO spinoff venture alongside a host of other familiar mini figures from pop culture and it's Izzard providing his familiar tones to the smaller, plastic version of the evil wizard.
Although obviously not taking place anywhere near the canon of the Harry Potter universe , the prospect of Eddie Izzard playing Voldemort certainly piqued the interest of fans, with the comedian's unique style and unmistakable voice arguably making him an ideal alternative to Ralph Fiennes. Perhaps when the inevitable Harry Potter reboot comes to pass, Izzard will be put forth as the next actor to play Lord Voldemort, and this time not just in a vocal capacity.
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Since joining the Screen Rant fold, Craig has been involved in breaking news stories and mildly controversial ranking lists, but now works predominantly as a features writer. By Craig Elvy Published Oct 01, Share Share Tweet Email 0. For example, in the French translation , his given name is Tom Elvis Jedusor in order to rearrange to "Je suis Voldemort" — which means "I am Voldemort. Authors often use the world around them as inspiration for characters and plot points.
One such source of inspiration for "Harry Potter" was a cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was turned down by Dippet due to his young age, and by the time he asked Dumbledore several years later, the headmaster could see his evil intentions. After he was passed over the second time, Voldemort placed a jinx on the position that prevented any teacher from holding the job for more than a year. Many readers probably remember that Harry Potter is a descendant of the Peverells, a family famous for their possession of the three Deathly Hallows.
In the seventh book, we learn that Harry is a descendent of Ignotus Peverell when he discovers the true origins of the invisibility cloak his father passed down to him. But fans may not have caught that Tom Riddle is also a direct descendent of that same family. The Gaunt family on his mother's side can be traced back to Cadmus Peverell.
Cadmus was the original owner of the resurrection stone, which was eventually passed down in ring form to Tom's grandfather Marvolo Gaunt and his uncle Morfin Gaunt before Tom stole it.
The later generations of the family, however, did not know that the ring contained the stone. Although Ralph Fiennes is the actor most commonly associated with Lord Voldemort, he didn't take on the role until "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. According to Dumbledore, she became so desperate to leave that life behind that she put a wealthy muggle, Tom Riddle Sr. It was under that spell that Tom Sr. Voldemort was conceived. When the effects of the potion wore off, Tom Sr.
Love conquering all is a major theme of the series, and this backstory makes it clear that there was never love in the villain's life, making it exceedingly difficult for him to succeed. In "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," we learn through Dumbledore's memory in the Pensieve that Tom was testing out spells on unsuspecting children at the orphanage where he was raised. The book references one specific event during which he took two children into a cave and did something so terrible they were never able to speak of it again.
The cave evidently left a lasting impression on Voldemort, seeing as it also became a Horcrux hiding place. Most fans probably remember that the bodiless remains of Voldemort hid in an Albanian forest to regain strength after he was defeated by baby Harry in the First Wizarding War.
He also returned to the same forest after his host body, Professor Quirrell, was killed in "Sorcerer's Stone. Although it is never exactly revealed why Voldemort chose that location as a hiding place, it does hold a certain significance to him. The first time visited Albania his mission was to retrieve the lost diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw — which her daughter Helena had revealed to be hidden in a forest there — in order to create one of his seven Horcruxes.
A Horcrux is a powerful, dark object that contains a piece of a witch or wizard's soul and keeps that soul fragment alive regardless of their body's fate. After the murder, the part of his soul that split entered a diary that eventually possessed Ginny Weasley and made her reopen the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts during Harry's second year.
Nagini was the longtime serpent companion of Voldemort. Though the exact date and location of their meeting are unknown, we do know that she was with him when he was regaining strength in Albania.
Her venom was also part of a potion brewed by Peter Pettigrew that helped sustain his bodiless form. Fans may recall the scene in "Half-Blood Prince" when a swarm of Inferi surrounds Dumbledore and Harry in the cave as they try to retrieve the locket Horcrux. What they may not know is that Voldemort created the majority of his army of Inferi by murdering vulnerable Muggles and reanimating their corpses.
As we learn in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," Sybill Trelawney made a prophecy that only a child "born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies" would have the power to vanquish Lord Voldemort.
But the identity of that child was not always clear. Both Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom fit that description, but Voldemort ultimately decided to go after Harry, who was a half-blood like himself, cementing Harry's fate as "the chosen one.
In the stage play , "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" — which became part of the "Harry Potter" canon in — we learn that Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange had a daughter together named Delphini. The exact date of Delphini's birth is still a bit of a mystery, but she must have been born sometime between Bellatrix's escape from Azkaban in "Order of the Phoenix" and the Battle of Hogwarts in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" — during which both Voldemort and Bellatrix died.
During his school years, Tom Riddle formed a group of friends he was able to manipulate to do his bidding. Many of these friends went on to become his loyal band of Death Eaters during the First Wizarding War and beyond. In an interview with the BBC , Rowling revealed that she had originally planned to call the group the "Knights of Walpurgis. He was skilled at Legilimency and Occlumency, received top marks in his class, earned a Medal for Magical Merit, and was even made Head Boy in his seventh year.
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