How is harry potter and voldemort related

Antioch Peverell, the oldest brother, was said to have crafted and possessed the Elder Wand , which was passed down through combat. Cadmus Peverell, the second brother, was in possession of the Resurrection Stone and was said to have crafted it as well , which passed down through his descendants until it came into the Gaunt family, who placed it within their signet ring.

Ignotus Peverell was the youngest, and the one who had the Cloak of Invisibility. It initially passed down through his male descendants, but when his granddaughter Iolanthe Peverell married Hardwin Potter, the Cloak made it to the Potter family, and was eventually given to James Potter.

This means that Harry Potter and Voldemort are very distant cousins due to their links to the Peverell brothers. Very much like in the real world, there are some interesting and sometimes kinda confusing connections between families when traced back through decades.

As one of the top students in his class, Tom Riddle was bound to have many opportunities presented to him after finishing at Hogwarts.

In his final year, Professor Slughorn offered to set him up with job interviews by using his connections at the Ministry of Magic. It was this job that gave him the opportunity to acquire both Salazar Slytherin's locket and Helga Hufflepuff's cup, which he turned into Horcruxes. Boggarts are magical shape-shifters that transform into whatever a witch or wizard fears the most.

In a interview with the fan site Mugglenet, Rowling said that Voldemort's greatest fear is "ignominious death," and if he ever encountered a boggart, he would probably see his own lifeless body. Even without this insight, it is clear that Voldemort does everything in his power — including fragmenting his soul seven times — throughout the series to live up to his name and beat death.

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Stephanie Ashe. Voldemort is one of the most complex characters in the "Harry Potter" series, so ever superfans may not remember everything about him. The name Tom Riddle was inspired by a real person, and the name Voldemort has a significant meaning. Voldemort made Harry Potter the "chosen one," but it could have been another Hogwarts student. When he was at Hogwarts, Tom Riddle was a gifted student , and he wanted to become the school's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. The names Tom Marvolo Riddle and Voldemort have significant meaning. Tom Riddle's name was based on a real person. The Riddles and the Potters are distantly related. More than one actor played Voldemort in the films. It seems that Voldemort's parents never really loved each other, which may have eventually led to his demise.

As a boy, he tested his powers on other children at the orphanage. Albania was an important place to Voldemort before he hid there in the wake of the First Wizarding War. Voldemort made his first Horcrux by killing Moaning Myrtle while he was a student at Hogwarts. Nagini was integral to Voldemort's return to power. He created an army of corpses by murdering Muggles.

Voldemort ultimately decided that Harry Potter was "the chosen one. One might not think it to look at him, but Voldemort was actually more like Oldemort by the time that the Battle of Hogwarts took place.

Age works a little differently in the Wizarding world though, it seems. Dumbledore was a prime example of how powerful witches and wizards are not slowed by their advancing years in the same way as mere mortals.

The former Hogwarts headmaster lived to the ripe old age of and only bit the bullet due to a pesky curse and a cunning plan to take down You-Know-Who once and for all. The previous headmaster, Armando Dippet, lived to be Voldemort was portrayed by numerous actors throughout the Harry Potter movies, but there can be no disputing that Ralph Fiennes is the real Dark Lord. Hero, or Hero Beauregard Faulkner Fiennes Tiffin, to give him his full name, portrayed the year-old version of Tom Riddle that Dumbledore visits at the orphanage.

The appearance helped to launch the young actor's career and he has gone on to win several awards over the past few years. He still has some way to go if he wants to catch up with his uncle though. Acting clearly runs in the Fiennes family, but there's something far more sinister lurking in Voldemort's genes. His connection to Salazar Slytherin is no secret nor is the Hogwarts founder's desire to murder mudbloods and squibs.

Unable to do so under the noses of his peers, however, Slytherin instead made arrangements so that one of his heirs may one day make his pure-blood vision a reality. This isn't the only member of Voldemort's family that has a taste for blood either. Gormlaith Gaunt was one of Voldemort's cousins and, like Slytherin and the Dark Lord himself, despised muggles and muggle-born witches and wizards.

She hated them so much, in fact, that she murdered her own sister and brother-in-law just for showing sympathy to non-magic folk. Their blood may be pure, but the hearts and minds of Slytherin's descendants are anything but. While on the subject of Voldemort's family, those who skipped over Harry Potter and the Cursed Child might not realize that Voldemort actually has a daughter.

While there was certainly time enough for a child to have been conceived and born in the build-up to the battle of Hogwarts, many fans didn't take too kindly to this somewhat bizarre plot-point. That said, when compared with some of the other major story beats in the play, it doesn't actually sound too far-fetched. Given all that he went through to conquer death though, it's perhaps a little ironic that something so simple could help the Dark Lord to live on even after his downfall.

Remember when the guy who created the GIF file format tried to tell everybody that they should be pronouncing it 'jif'? Well, as it happens, J. Rowling pulled something similar a few years back when she revealed that the 'T' at the end of Voldemort's name is actually silent.