VOLDEMORT

We’ve all had moments reading the books or watching the movies when we just somehow wanted to enter the scene and kill the villain, precisely in this case-Voldemort. Its high time we give up the question of why they are so evil to how they became like that.

How would it be like to have a mother who betrayed the blood running in her veins and have a father who abandoned you even before you were born.

Would you keep his name? No? Tom did the same, he fashioned himself a new name, a name that no one would dare to speak without a feeling of terror.

Coming to the story of the great villain, Voldemort’s father was constantly given doses of love potion by Voldemort’s mother which made him a heartless wizard and could also be the reason of why he had a cynical view of love.  If that’s not enough, his deep hatred for his father for making him a half blood ended up with him wanting to purify the wizarding world to pure bloods.  

When you think about how he was born from a complex relationship and lived an emotionally secluded life, you find the answer there; it's the state of affairs that constructs someone you see today as the evilest.

Voldemort always hated Harry as he was obsessed with the concept of being immortal and Harry was a threat to that. Moreover, there had been incidents that mocked his abilities as the dark lord. For instance, when he tried to kill Harry as a baby, he failed and accidentally destroyed his body, becoming powerless for a decade and a half.

Voldemort was a prey to self-hatred, had greed for immortality and hunger for power which in the end lead to his own extermination.

Published by

Sanskriti Sumean

Sherwood Convent School