Voldemort, whose real name is Tom Riddle, is the main antagonist of the Harry Potter saga, a perfect villain who sows terror and darkness wherever he goes, is Harry’s antithesis to the performances, but if we delve into the characters we will realize that they are not so different.
It’s as if Voldemort couldn’t exist without Harry and, at the same time, as if Harry didn’t exist without Voldemort. They’re opposites. But, like the opposite poles of magnets, it is impossible to separate them, they are two sides of the same coin: there are no heroes without villain and no villain without hero.
- Moreover.
- In this case.
- We are faced with certain peculiarities.
- Certain circumstances that make us wonder what would have happened if things had been different for both of them.
- What if Voldemort had grown up in a happy house?What if I had discovered what love is.
- Is evil born with it or is it the result of a number of circumstances?.
Throughout the saga, we discovered the past of the Dark Lord, this character who is much more than “evil”. In movies, you don’t see much about your past, but you can learn more in books, in which JK Rowling devotes entire episodes to the memories of Voldemort’s life before becoming “You-Know-Who. “
This character has aroused so much fascination among Harry Potter fans that he even has his own film, a fan-led Italian production that received the title “Voldemort: The Origin of the Heir”.
There are many hidden things in the Harry Potter saga, and you could say a lot more about Voldemort, in this article I will try to collect some important data to delve into your personality, why this character and its evil.
Rowling studied French and classical philology, didn’t he have an easy life?Neither economically nor professionally? Until he had great success with Harry Potter. In the saga, Rowling left his classic influences printed: spell names and characters, mythological beings?Everything seems imbued with the brand, left by his knowledge of Greco-Latin culture, but also by his personal experiences, so, in more than one situation, he confessed that characters like Hermione were inspired by it.
Nor is it a coincidence that Harry’s birthday is the same as his, nor that the Detractors absorb people’s souls, just as depression did with her. In Voldemort’s case, Rowling herself indicated that her name comes from French: robbery of death (death escape) and admitted to having been inspired by the figure of Adolf Hitler.
If we think about it, they both believed in the existence of a higher race. Voldemort wanted to exterminate all those who were not “pure blood”, that is, who were not children of sorcerers. He argues that he? Sang-de-Bourbe? (Moldovan children?Originally from Moldova, those who were not sorcerers) had to be exterminated and could not have access to Hogwarts, that is, for both purity is important and there is a inferior race that must be exterminated because it is the source of the evils of the world.
It should be noted that Voldemort, in fact, was also not pure blood, since his father was Moldovan; Just as Hitler was of Jewish origin, perhaps a inferiority complex, fear of rejection and desire for power have led to totally heinous and irrational acts. At the same time, Voldemort was a bright young man, who should have had a great future as a sorcerer; Hitler, for his part, loved to paint.
Another similarity to our history is the existence of two witch wars, the first in which Voldemort and his Death Eaters took the lives of many people, including Harry’s parents, however Voldemort lost the war and had to disappear, the second leads in the end. of an era, at the end of Voldemort and his followers. Germany lost the two world wars, as well as the Death Eaters.
Voldemort’s rise is gradually being made from the shadows until, finally, he manages to control the entire Ministry of Magic (equivalent to our political system).
Harry would come to end this age of terror and darkness, as if he were a Jesus Christ. The influences of the Bible are also present in the saga. The figure of the serpent as a symbol of evil and temptation related to Voldemort, which would be the embodiment of evil. And Harry, the savior, the chosen one (including a prophecy) capable of giving his life to save everyone.
Voldemort was an orphaned child, the result of a trap of his mother for his father, a child born without love, who grew up without the warmth of the home, his maternal family was descended from Salazar Serpentard (founder of serpentard and faithful defender of the purity of blood). Like the ancestor, all family members could speak the language of snakes.
Has this obsession with purity led the family to years and years of insanguinity?Family marriages? This led Mérope Gaunt (Voldemort’s mother) and her family to live in extreme poverty and suffer a certain type of intellectual disability, Merope was abused by her father and brother, psychologically abused and called scrumb (a person who is the daughter of magicians unable to do magic).
Merop’s father and brother were imprisoned in Azkaban, and when she was released, she finally managed to let her magic flourish. Merope fell in love with a rich Muggle named Tom Riddle and decided to bewitch him to marry him.
When she became pregnant, Mérope might have thought that Jedusor had fallen in love with her and so could put an end to the charm, however, Riddle abandoned her. Mérope gave birth in an orphanage and died after giving birth. Little Tom Riddle grew up not knowing love or his family. Only years later, when Dumbledore went looking for him, he discovered that he was a sorcerer and that he could develop his skills. hogwarts.
At the School of Magic, he distinguished himself as one of the greatest wizards of all time, but his ambition for power and his passion for the dark arts made him the most feared sorcerer. Like Harry, Voldemort was an orphan and grew up alone. without the affection of their parents. Hogwarts was your salvation.
There is a strong bond between the two characters that goes beyond their antagonistic relationship, they are not so different. However, the main difference is that Voldemort never managed to love, never managed to have a true friendship, was cruel even to his most faithful disciples, being so similar, it is worth wondering why each of them chose to face life so differently. There are also questions left, such as whether Voldemort was evil by nature or because of his experiences; whether his hatred for the Muggles was real or motivated by his father’s abandonment and the shame he felt for his past.
Harry and Voldemort have had to deal with deep loneliness, abandonment and deamoration, however, in a very similar situation, they all decided to manage in their own way.
Rowling introduces us to a character full of trauma, a sense of abandonment, complex and much deeper than it might have seemed at first, a complex character that reminds us of the importance of childhood and the consequences that abandonment can have on a person, something. that doesn’t justify its wickedness, but it helps us get a little closer to why it exists.
“We don’t need magic to change the world, do we have all the power we need in ourselves?JK Rowling-