Voldemort

Biodata

Background

Tom Riddle grew up in an orphanage, from which Dumbledore brought him into the magical world 87 92.

At Hogwarts, Tom Riddle appeared charming, modest, and polite. He earned excellent marks, won his professors’ trust, and gathered followers. Dumbledore later described that exemplary conduct as a disguise that concealed the person he would become 13.

In 1943, Riddle used the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets to kill a girl, while the official investigation blamed Hagrid’s Acromantula. Hagrid was expelled, and Riddle received an award for special services to Hogwarts. The murder preceded the creation of the Diary, his first Horcrux. Will later exposed these events to the Diary’s soul fragment 91.

Riddle learned the method for making Horcruxes from the knowledge Slytherin had left in the Chamber of Secrets. Dumbledore had previously assumed that he had found it in the Restricted Section and was surprised when Will established the Chamber’s connection to his research 92.

Voldemort disappeared after his confrontation with Harry Potter. Dumbledore later explains that Lily Potter’s sacrificial love magic protected Harry from Voldemort’s Killing Curse in 1981. Voldemort himself does not understand that Lily’s magic caused his defeat and instead regards Harry as the person who defeated him 842.

By 1991, he was weakened and operating through Defence Against the Dark Arts professor Quirrell. He sought the Philosopher’s Stone as part of his plan to return, while Quirrell’s attempts to obtain unicorn blood failed 19 32 33 43.

His mother descended from the Gaunt family. Dumbledore discusses this ancestry while investigating the Resurrection Stone, whose historical trail Grindelwald had traced through Cadmus Peverell’s descendants to the Gaunts 763.

Failed Recovery and the Diary

Voldemort ultimately failed to obtain the Philosopher’s Stone. Will nevertheless benefited from the magical knowledge Voldemort supplied during the affair 60.

When Dumbledore appeared as Quirrell prepared to kill the unconscious Harry, Voldemort attempted to wrench himself free from his host. Quirrell pleaded for help while Dumbledore protected Harry and aimed his wand at the escaping Voldemort 60.

During the following summer, Lucius Malfoy delivered Tom Riddle’s Diary to Will on Voldemort’s instructions. Will subsequently informed Dumbledore that he possessed the Horcrux and suspected that Voldemort intended to use him to cause trouble at Hogwarts or investigate the Chamber of Secrets 92.

Will used the Diary as a source of dark-magic instruction. The knowledge preserved in it demonstrated how extensively Riddle had studied the Dark Arts by the age of sixteen. As the Diary began taking increasing amounts of Will’s magic, Will reduced contact and remained prepared to destroy it rather than submit to Voldemort’s influence. Leaving it unused for a month weakened its magic, but it immediately resumed draining him when he next wrote in it 71 79.

The Diary’s fragment retained the mentality of sixteen-year-old Riddle. It feared Dumbledore, resented its confinement, and tried to persuade Will that their talent and disadvantaged backgrounds made them natural partners. Dumbledore’s trust in Will particularly enraged it, since it considered Will another version of itself 87 91 92 93.

Basilisk Attack at Hogwarts

A hooded figure presented as Voldemort appeared at Hogwarts in a ragged cloak with an enormous emerald-green snake. Draco Malfoy discovered the figure and was struck by Petrificus Totalus, leaving him immobilized. The attacker was actually Will impersonating Voldemort, rather than Voldemort appearing in person 147 149 151.

The apparent Voldemort then confronted Harry with the Basilisk, largely watching the creature attack while adding spells of his own. He blocked Harry’s Disarming Charm with Protego and declared that Harry would die that day. When other students approached, he used birds, flames, and explosions to obstruct their path 148 149.

Harry killed the Basilisk with the Sword of Gryffindor but was petrified by its dying gaze. Damage to the attacker’s hood revealed Will to Draco, whom Will threatened before escaping through the Vanishing Cabinet room. Dumbledore and Will had arranged the incident to strengthen Will’s apparent loyalty to Voldemort while enhancing Harry’s reputation; Draco’s role as a witness was also deliberate 140 149 151.

Dumbledore concealed Harry’s survival while the necessary Mandrakes matured, allowing the public to believe that he had died. Voldemort initially accepted this apparent success and ordered Lucius to exploit Harry’s supposed death against Dumbledore 151 157.

Peter Pettigrew later disclosed Harry’s petrified condition to Will, who reported it to Voldemort while maintaining the appearance of loyalty to his cause 173 175.

Preparations for Resurrection

Rather than retreating to Albania, Voldemort remained in England. By the summer preceding the Triwizard Tournament, he appeared as a human silhouette within black mist, with distinct scarlet eyes, and had not fully regained a physical form. He summoned Lucius Malfoy, acknowledged his service over the previous two years, and ordered him to bring Will during the summer holiday 285 326.

Voldemort’s agents supplied Will with rare dark-magic books and materials concerning the Killing Curse. His own notes later formed part of Will’s preparation for the Triwizard Tournament 269 356.

His intended resurrection ritual required a surviving portion of his soul, his father’s bone, a servant’s flesh, and an enemy’s forcibly taken blood. Harry was his intended source of enemy blood. Knowing this, Will arranged for the cemetery at Little Hangleton to be cleared through Muggle redevelopment, destroying and scattering Old Riddle’s remains to obstruct the ritual 326 340 384 387.

Through Barty Crouch Jr., Voldemort instructed Will to keep Harry in the Tournament and prevent him from withdrawing. He also supplied advance information about the second task, including its requirement that the champions rescue people important to them 376.

Voldemort subsequently appointed Yaxley to lead an assault on the Department of Mysteries, obtain a Time-Turner, and involve Will in bringing Harry to him. The operation developed into an infiltration supported by diversionary attacks, including Greyback’s werewolf assault on Diagon Alley 413 414 417 430.

Return to Power and the Failed Ambush

After Harry was captured, Voldemort performed the resurrection ritual beside a large cauldron. A follower delivered a box of bones, which Voldemort used as the father’s bone component; another sacrificed his forearm, and Voldemort cut Harry’s arm to obtain his blood. Voldemort entered the cauldron and emerged with a restored body, then freed Harry’s bonds and demanded a supposedly fair duel 429 432.

Dumbledore interrupted before the duel could proceed. Voldemort realized that the object taken from Harry’s shoe had enabled Dumbledore’s trap, then attacked him with the Killing Curse. Their battle involved large-scale Transfiguration, black fire, cursed projectiles, barriers, and conjured venomous snakes. Dumbledore overcame and wounded Voldemort, who escaped in black smoke and ordered his followers to retreat 432 433 434.

At a subsequent Death Eater meeting, Voldemort concealed his injuries to avoid appearing weak immediately after his return. He praised Yaxley’s work in the Department of Mysteries, exploited Fudge’s refusal to acknowledge his resurrection, and ordered Lucius to recover Hufflepuff’s Cup and help Will establish his position among the Death Eaters 450.

Dumbledore eventually confirmed that Voldemort had been successfully resurrected, although his soul contained flaws. He assigned Will and Snape to continue searching secretly for Horcruxes. Fudge refused to accept the return and accused Dumbledore of using the claim to seek power 482.

After his resurrection, Voldemort summoned Will to Malfoy Manor, praised him, and gave him an important assignment connected to the Lestrange family. He postponed Will’s formal entry into the Death Eaters, despite treating him as a trusted pupil and operative 495.

Voldemort’s followers later planned to ambush Harry during his relocation from Little Whinging. Will passed them information as part of Dumbledore’s counterintelligence operation, while the Order used disguises and controlled misinformation 503 504 507.

After the ambush failed, Voldemort examined Yaxley’s memories with Legilimency. He identified the apparent Harry as an impostor, observed the concealed Flying Ford Anglia’s role in the defeat, and concluded that Dumbledore had engineered a trap connected to an effort to expose a spy. Rather than punish Will for failing the assignment, he praised his skill and composure and emphasized the danger to his safety 511.

Voldemort then told Will to remain hidden at Hogwarts and avoid attracting Dumbledore’s attention. In connection with the Lestrange vault investigation, he suggested using Sylvia as cover by pretending to love her, accepting Will’s feigned ignorance of love as consistent with his abusive childhood 512.

Ministry Assault and Open Conflict

Before the open Ministry assault, Voldemort attempted to seize control through a covert replacement of Fudge. Death Eaters embedded among Fudge’s entourage and Aurors planned to capture him, substitute an impersonator using Polyjuice Potion, and deliver the real minister to Voldemort for examination of his memories. Dumbledore intervened and defeated the attackers, preventing the operation 632.

A later full-scale attack overwhelmed the Ministry’s defenders, with some former Ministry colleagues fighting alongside the attackers. Will brought Scrimgeour to the atrium to witness the compromised institution, then fought the Death Eaters while wearing Scrimgeour’s appearance. The confrontation developed into a battle with Voldemort 663 666 667.

By this confrontation, Voldemort had recovered from the injuries Dumbledore inflicted after his resurrection and had obtained the prophecy crystal ball. He intended the assault to announce his return. Will’s unusually powerful spells, cast under Scrimgeour’s appearance, caused Voldemort to regard the apparent Auror commander as a serious new opponent 666 667.

During the fight, Voldemort used black Fiendfyre, shadow-based attacks, venomous snakes, and shadow-stained lightning. When threatened by a Killing Curse, he summoned Death Eaters into its path as shields. His attacks eventually collided with Will’s amplified Confringo, creating a dangerously unstable magical core and killing numerous Death Eaters 667 668 770.

The Ministry subsequently announced Voldemort’s return publicly. Its account credited Scrimgeour with turning the tide and repelling him. Voldemort’s renewed campaign produced widespread fear and further attempted Death Eater attacks 675 687.

The Daily Prophet later reported Voldemort’s appearance in Knockturn Alley. Death Eaters established a defensive line at its junction with Diagon Alley, declared Knockturn Alley his territory, and faced Ministry Aurors sent to contain them 737.

Deathly Hallows and the Continuing Horcrux Hunt

Voldemort’s ambitions expanded to the Deathly Hallows, a development Dumbledore had not anticipated. His defeat by Dumbledore shortly after resurrection, during which he recognized the Elder Wand’s power, helped motivate his decision to study more dark magic and search for the Hallows 740 763.

After Dumbledore revealed the destruction of the Locket, Voldemort retrieved the Resurrection Stone Ring and initially concealed it because he suspected a spy among his followers. He later resumed carrying it and discovered the black gemstone’s identity as the Resurrection Stone. He regarded it as an inheritance from his ancestor Cadmus Peverell 740.

Death Eaters raided Invisibility Cloak makers, stealing cloaks and vault contents while repeatedly asking whether their victims possessed a permanent cloak. Despite these searches, Dumbledore’s discussion with Grindelwald indicates that Voldemort still lacked knowledge of the Invisibility Cloak itself 750 755 763.

Dumbledore rejected Grindelwald’s suggestion that they confront Voldemort directly while his Horcruxes remained. He also insisted that Harry must eventually face Voldemort because their fates were linked by the Prophecy and because Harry unknowingly carried part of Voldemort’s soul 763 764.

Meanwhile, Will and Snape supplied Voldemort with Origin Spell materials under the pretense of stealing them in batches. Voldemort took their delivery as proof of loyalty and expected the knowledge to strengthen both himself and his followers. His first study of the modified Confringo confirmed a substantial improvement over the ordinary spell, but its output remained far below the spell he had faced from the apparent Scrimgeour 769 770 771.

The Horcrux search advanced when Dumbledore confirmed that the Diadem supplied by Will was a Horcrux and obtained a lead beyond Hogwarts through his Alchemical Locator. Nevertheless, by the later planning discussion, Dumbledore still did not know how many Horcruxes Voldemort had made 784 791.

Will proposed a future trap involving Snape apparently murdering Dumbledore and Harry apparently killing Snape. He expected the widely publicized events to draw Voldemort to Harry, allowing Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Scrimgeour to strike together. This remained a proposal dependent on first dealing with the Horcruxes; Will offered thoughts about their number but had not yet explained them in that discussion 791.

Will also developed a separate plan to become Voldemort’s publicly celebrated vanquisher. It envisioned Dumbledore’s apparent death, Harry being gravely wounded against Snape, and Scrimgeour falling to Voldemort, followed by Will killing Voldemort and gathering public adoration and faith. Will concealed Hufflepuff’s Cup to control the timing of Voldemort’s final defeat, not to preserve him permanently 793.

By Chapter 834, Dumbledore’s side had narrowed the remaining Horcruxes to Harry and the Resurrection Stone Ring. Snape urged further delay to allow Will’s soul research to advance, but Dumbledore argued that Voldemort’s timetable would not permit them to wait indefinitely 834.

Dumbledore subsequently told Harry about Lily’s protection, Voldemort’s pursuit of immortality, and Harry’s own status as a Horcrux. He explained that destroying the attached soul fragment did not necessarily require Harry’s death, provided Harry’s own soul could be protected, though survival remained uncertain 842 843.

Power Progression

Personality

Voldemort notices exceptional talent in others as something he might use. He sees Will Behrens as similar to his younger self and imagines recruiting and teaching him after his return. His treatment of Quirrell is coercive: he reprimands him for failures and urges him to kill Harry despite Quirrell’s fear that Voldemort is too weak to act safely 32 33.

Dumbledore describes Riddle as someone who equated superiority with domination and transformed the desire for progress into conquest. Grindelwald likewise characterizes him as seeking raw power, rule through fear, and escape from death 284 303.

Dumbledore also identifies escape from death as the central objective running through Voldemort’s life. In this interpretation, his pursuit of power and extensive soul research ultimately serve his desire for immortality 127.

Voldemort takes pride in his Slytherin ancestry and imagines a wizarding world governed by pure-blood ideals. His vanity also becomes a line of investigation for his opponents: Will suggests that he would favor historically significant objects, such as Slytherin’s Locket, as Horcruxes. This is presented as Will’s strategic interpretation rather than a complete explanation of Voldemort’s choices 413 495.

His blood-purity fixation extends to his own body. During dark-magic restoration procedures, he drained blood from parts of himself as a symbolic rejection of his Muggle ancestry, imagining that this purification brought him closer to Slytherin 849.

He expects unquestioning obedience. When Lucius cautiously challenges his decision to entrust important work to the young Will, Voldemort immediately asks whether Lucius is questioning his judgment 326.

His leadership is also pragmatic. After the failed ambush on Harry’s escort, he distinguishes useful performance from the operation’s overall failure, praises Will, dismisses Draco’s effectiveness, and prioritizes the security of valuable spies such as Will and Snape 511.

He conceals weakness when maintaining his authority requires it. After Dumbledore wounded him, he hid his pain and physical symptoms during a Death Eater meeting because he believed that his recent resurrection made a display of weakness especially dangerous 450.

His followers are expendable when his own survival is threatened. During the Ministry duel, he pulled Death Eaters into the path of a Killing Curse. Later, their repeated operational failures led him to regard most of them as useless and to hope that Origin Spell instruction would reduce their dependence on senior members 668 769.

Despite his cruelty and political ambitions, Voldemort retains a genuine passion for magical scholarship. He becomes absorbed in the Origin Spell materials, admires the ingenuity of their small but effective modifications, and investigates why their results differ from the magic he witnessed in battle. Watching Will search eagerly through his library also briefly evokes memories of his own youth 704 770 771.

He dismisses love as weakness and does not understand its role in his original defeat. Dumbledore attributes his continuing determination to kill Harry partly to wounded pride and his mistaken belief that Harry personally overcame him 434 842.

Abilities & Dark Magic

Possession

• Controls Quirrell while the professor maintains a timid public persona. In private, Quirrell drops the act when offering Will special instruction 16.
• Can speak within Quirrell’s mind and chooses at one point not to use his body for a while 32 33.
• Attempts to abandon Quirrell’s body when Dumbledore intervenes during the Philosopher’s Stone confrontation, causing his host severe distress 60.
• Dumbledore explains his dependence on a host through the interdependence of body, magic, and soul: a complete wizard requires all three 156.

Horcruxes

• Horcruxes hold fragments of their creator’s soul. Will suspects that making them has affected Voldemort’s thinking, but this is Will’s interpretation rather than a confirmed effect 23.
• The Diary is his first Horcrux, created after the Basilisk murder at Hogwarts. Its fragment retains Riddle’s sixteen-year-old mentality, communicates through writing, and absorbs the writer’s magic to strengthen itself 70 87 91.
• Riddle learned the method of Horcrux creation from Slytherin’s hidden knowledge in the Chamber of Secrets 92.
• Hufflepuff’s Cup, originally held in a Lestrange family vault, is one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Will later possesses it and conceals that fact to influence the timing of Voldemort’s defeat 44 732 793.
• Slytherin’s Locket is identified as a Horcrux object. The ornate locket recovered from its protected cave is a substitute, which Will recognizes as fake. By Chapter 732, the genuine Locket and the Diary have been destroyed 408 413 732.
• Harry contains part of Voldemort’s soul and is described by Dumbledore as a Horcrux. This connection makes sharing sensitive plans with Harry dangerous. Harry initially remains unaware, but Dumbledore eventually explains his condition to him 482 764 842 843.
• Dumbledore confirms that the Diadem Will provides is a Horcrux 784.
• The Resurrection Stone Ring is both a Horcrux and a Deathly Hallow. Voldemort retrieves it after learning that the Locket has been destroyed and later carries it on his person 740.
• Dumbledore considers Voldemort impossible to eliminate permanently while his Horcruxes remain, even if his current body is killed 763.
• The total number remains unresolved in Dumbledore’s Chapter 791 planning discussion, although Will says he has thoughts on the subject. By Chapter 834, Harry and the Resurrection Stone Ring are identified as the only remaining Horcruxes 791 834.
• Harry’s creation as a Horcrux was accidental, occurring because the circumstances of Voldemort’s failed attack happened to meet some of the necessary conditions. Deliberate creation requires malicious murder to crack the soul, followed by a separate spell to tear it apart and attach a fragment to an object 849.
• The account of Voldemort’s soul research describes his soul as having been split into eight pieces. Only the Diary possesses intelligence and the ability to communicate; his later Horcruxes function principally as soul anchors rather than comparable independent personalities 849.
• Dumbledore distinguishes Harry from an ordinary object Horcrux: Voldemort’s fragment is a parasite within a complete person. In principle, killing that fragment while protecting Harry’s soul could leave Harry alive 843.

Magical Knowledge

• Dumbledore acknowledges that Voldemort possesses powers he himself does not have 13.
• While Will suspects Voldemort is controlling Quirrell, the professor gives him detailed instruction on runes used in Transfiguration 16 17.
• His sixteen-year-old self already possessed a vast body of dark-magic knowledge, preserved in the Diary 71.
• His notes and supplied books support Will’s study of advanced dark magic and the Killing Curse 269 356.
• Dumbledore considers Voldemort’s study of the soul substantially deeper than his own, associating that expertise with Voldemort’s lifelong pursuit of immortality 127.
• His collection contains books on soul studies and dark magic, as well as an incomplete copy of Heavenly Stems Transformation, a text concerning transformation into fantastic beasts. The collection’s contents do not by themselves establish that he mastered every subject represented 704.
• Dumbledore states that Voldemort has not sensed a “response of Magic” at the time of their discussion about confronting him 763.
• Studies Origin Spells supplied by Will and Snape, recognizing that slight changes to gestures and incantations can produce significant improvements. His enhanced Confringo is approximately one and a half times as strong as its ordinary counterpart, but it does not approach the amplified version Will used while disguised as Scrimgeour 769 770 771.

Soul and Bodily Restoration

• Repeated soul division affects his body as well as his magic. Dumbledore confirms that Voldemort’s changing appearance follows changes to his soul 156.
• As a student, he had black hair, dark eyes, pale skin, and handsome features. After making the Diary, his features sharpened and his eyes sometimes flashed red. Following his travels and further soul division, his features became blurred, waxlike, and increasingly inhuman 849.
• Developed a method of restoring his body despite missing portions of his soul, preserving the body–magic–soul relationship sufficiently to survive repeated fragmentation 849.
• Used secret dark magic associated with Herpo the Foul to cultivate his own flesh and blood, then applied the Flesh-Stitching Curse to replenish damaged parts of himself. These painful procedures contributed directly to his distorted appearance 849.
• His resurrection ritual constructs a powerful replacement body rather than constituting uncomplicated rebirth. It depends on a surviving soul fragment and carefully specified sacrificial ingredients 384 387 432.
• After resurrection, he is tall, thin, and pale, with a bald head, a flat, snake-like face, slit nostrils, nearly colorless lips, and scarlet eyes 450.

Legilimency

• Uses Legilimency on Peter Pettigrew, leaving him frightened and deferential 269.
• Examines Yaxley’s memories after the failed aerial ambush, reconstructing the impostor Harry’s actions and the Flying Ford Anglia’s intervention 511.
• Plans to examine Fudge’s memories after his capture so that an impersonator can convincingly replace the minister and exploit Ministry secrets. Dumbledore prevents the abduction 632.

Combat Magic and Magical Creatures

• The hooded attacker in the Basilisk incident uses Protego against Harry’s Expelliarmus and casts Avis, Waddiwasi, and Incendio to obstruct approaching students. These particular feats belong to Will’s impersonation of Voldemort, not a personal appearance by Voldemort 148 149.
• Riddle used the Chamber of Secrets’ Basilisk during his student years. Will later directs a Basilisk against Harry while posing as Voldemort 91 148 149.
• Will regards Voldemort’s ability to fly without a broom as a model for the independent flight he wishes to achieve. The Flying Charm is a specialized, dangerous spell rather than a universal Death Eater ability 14 66.
• Casts the Killing Curse against Dumbledore immediately after his resurrection 432.
• Uses black flames that can form a massive fire serpent, barrages of purple-black cursed arrows, and a black barrier capable of withstanding Dumbledore’s transfigured swords 433.
• Can transform a purple magical attack into numerous solid, living venomous snakes. He employs versions of this attack against both Dumbledore and the apparent Scrimgeour 433 668.
• Combines different forms of dark magic within individual attacks, as Will observes while secretly watching the post-resurrection duel 481.
• Shapes Fiendfyre into a defensive curtain and a giant black snake. The flames consume incoming transfigured needles and grow as they do so 667.
• Manipulates shadows into attacking skulls and casts a shadow-stained bolt of lightning during the Ministry battle 668.
• Uses the Summoning Charm to move Death Eaters into the path of an incoming Killing Curse 668.
• Can retreat in a mass of black smoke, using an explosion to cover his escape from Dumbledore 434.

Protective Magic

• The cave protecting the locket contains Inferi and a basin of dangerously toxic potion. Dumbledore suspects that a soul is the requirement for drinking it and successfully empties the basin using captured grindylows, which die from the potion 408.
• The elaborate defenses protect a substituted locket rather than the genuine Horcrux by the time Dumbledore, Harry, and Will investigate 408.
• One of Voldemort’s curses resists Will’s attempt to transfer it to another subject. The failed experiment demonstrates that it cannot be resolved through that particular transfer method 807.

Relationships

• Albus Dumbledore — Former teacher who remembers Riddle’s convincing student persona and fears failing to recognize similar danger in another gifted pupil. Dumbledore directs the Horcrux hunt, accepts responsibility for Riddle’s crimes, and opposes a direct confrontation before the soul anchors are dealt with. He defeats and wounds Voldemort immediately after his resurrection, helping prompt Voldemort’s later interest in the Elder Wand and the other Hallows 13 433 434 740 763 764 784.
• Quirinus Quirrell — Host and subordinate; Voldemort commands him to pursue Harry, unicorn blood, and the Philosopher’s Stone. He attempts to abandon Quirrell when Dumbledore intervenes, despite the distress this causes his host 16 32 33 60.
• Harry Potter — The boy associated with Voldemort’s defeat and a target Voldemort urges Quirrell to kill. Will later impersonates Voldemort during the Basilisk attack, while Voldemort himself arranges Harry’s capture for resurrection and organizes an ambush during his relocation. Harry carries a fragment of his soul, linking their eventual confrontation to the Horcrux problem. Dumbledore eventually informs Harry of this condition and explains that Lily’s sacrificial magic, rather than Harry’s own power, caused Voldemort’s original defeat 19 32 148 149 432 503 511 764 842 843.
• Will Behrens — Initially a potential recruit whom Voldemort considers much like his younger self; Will suspects the presence behind Quirrell. Their connection develops into a recognized teacher–pupil relationship, and Will becomes one of the organization’s senior figures below Voldemort. Voldemort trusts his apparent devotion and values his skill, unaware that Will cooperates with Dumbledore and feeds the Death Eaters controlled information. He accepts Origin Spell materials from Will and Snape as evidence of loyalty, while Will secretly intends to control the circumstances of his eventual death and become his publicly celebrated vanquisher 16 32 33 205 495 504 511 703 769 793.
• Roy Lestrange’s family — Roy’s branch opposed Voldemort alongside Dumbledore and was hunted by other relatives for doing so. During Voldemort’s rise, Roy sheltered his family and Order of the Phoenix wizards in the fortified Lestrange Manor; the time-traveling Will, acting as Behrens, returned to rout the attacking Death Eaters 42 478.
• Lucius Malfoy — Senior follower and intermediary who arranges contact with Will, supplies operational intelligence, and hosts Voldemort at Malfoy Manor. He hopes his connection to Will will strengthen his family’s future position. Voldemort also entrusts him with recovering Hufflepuff’s Cup 326 414 450 495 747.
• Draco Malfoy — Will, posing as Voldemort, immobilizes him during the Basilisk incident. He is later brought into a Death Eater operation, but Voldemort judges his performance ineffective. Draco ultimately serves as Dumbledore’s informant while undertaking recruitment work under Will’s guidance 147 149 151 504 511 747.
• Severus Snape — Ranked among Voldemort’s senior followers and valued as a spy. In reality, he works with Dumbledore and Will on the secret Horcrux search. Voldemort interprets his role in supplying supposedly stolen Origin Spells as evidence that he has not betrayed him 482 511 703 769.
• Peter Pettigrew — Frightened subordinate who fears both Voldemort and Dumbledore. He delivers rare books apparently sent by Voldemort and is subjected to Voldemort’s Legilimency 173 269.
• Corban Yaxley — Trusted operational commander assigned to obtain a Time-Turner and later lead the ambush on Harry’s escort. Voldemort examines his memories after the failed mission. Yaxley strongly rejects suspicions that Will is a spy, citing his efforts to resurrect Voldemort and his apparent attacks on Harry 413 507 511 614.
• Barty Crouch Jr. — Agent who passes Voldemort’s Tournament instructions to Will and is assigned to work with him on the Time-Turner operation 376 430.
• Fenrir Greyback — Leads werewolves in a diversion arranged through Yaxley, seeking to create new werewolves while occupying the Ministry’s forces 417 430.
• Bellatrix Lestrange — Described as one of Voldemort’s most trusted followers. He previously entrusted Hufflepuff’s Cup to her 286 450.
• Horace Slughorn — Former teacher whom Dumbledore suspects may have revealed Horcrux secrets to Riddle. Dumbledore asks Will to obtain information from him 764.
• Gellert Grindelwald — Distinguishes Voldemort’s pursuit of domination and immortality from his own political ambitions. He proposes confronting Voldemort alongside Dumbledore, but Dumbledore rejects the proposal while Horcruxes remain. Voldemort later hopes that Origin Spell study might allow him to challenge both men 303 763 769.
• Rufus Scrimgeour — Ministry opponent publicly credited with repelling Voldemort during the Ministry assault. The public account is complicated by Will having fought under Scrimgeour’s appearance. Voldemort believes the apparent Scrimgeour’s extraordinary spell power makes him a serious opponent and studies Origin Spells partly to overcome him 666 667 675 769 770 771.
• Cornelius Fudge — Initially refuses to believe Voldemort has returned, obstructing Dumbledore’s response. Dumbledore later identifies Fudge as a likely target of Voldemort’s plans. This threat materializes in a failed scheme to abduct Fudge, examine his memories, and replace him with a Polyjuice impersonator 482 627 632.
• Lily Potter — Her sacrificial love magic protects Harry from Voldemort’s Killing Curse. Dumbledore states that Voldemort does not understand her role in his defeat 842.

Reputation

Voldemort’s name inspires fear well beyond his immediate followers. After his return becomes public, additional Auror patrols and arrests fail to reassure many wizards, and trade in Diagon Alley suffers. His name alone is described as sufficient to silence children 687.

Foreign assessments are less uniformly reverential. The German biographies Will reads generally favor Grindelwald and portray Voldemort as a terrorist of comparatively limited historical significance. This is presented as a national perspective rather than an objective measure of his magical ability 327.

His organization continues seeking new supporters. Will uses Draco’s Head Boy appointment to identify receptive pure-blood families, while Yaxley tests foreign Dark Wizards through a violent attack on Hogsmeade, offering the strongest candidates admission to the Death Eaters 747 775.

His rule depends on both terror and material incentives. Many pure-blood followers favor his return because their families profited during his earlier ascendancy and lost money and political influence after his fall, rather than because of unwavering personal devotion 185.

The Ministry confrontation also changes the reputation of his supposed opponent. Scrimgeour’s public standing benefits from being recognized as a man capable of holding his own against Voldemort, even though Will performed the decisive combat under his appearance 666 667 675 706.

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