Why His Name Is VOLDEMORT - Harry Potter Theory & Etymology

Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. In this video, we’re going to be discussing Tom Riddle AKA Lord Voldemort, as well as the etymology of his name.

Tom Riddle recognized at a very young age that he was different than others, having caused all sorts of trouble at Wool’s orphanage before eventually being brought to Hogwarts by professor Albus Dumbledore. Because Tom was conceived via a love potion, he never had the capacity to feel love, or the emotions that a normal person might feel. This lead him down a very dark path, a path that he only embraced. Riddle, obsessed with where he had come from, began to research his family history, and eventually came to understand his relationship to Hogwarts founder, Salazar Slytherin.

He then returned to Hogwarts, and it was at this time that he discovered the Chamber of Secrets. This only perpetuated the dark path that he had begun to follow, and Riddle, recognizing that he was the descendant of Slytherin, set the Basilisk inside of the chamber of secrets loose on students in attempt to cleanse the school of muggle-borns.It was at this time that Voldemort had fully adopted the name Lord Voldemort, as by this point he had fully embraced the darkness, and no longer wanted to be recognized his his father’s name.

Tom didn’t like any of his names, and was very open about it from a very young age. In the Half Blood Prince, Riddle says to Dumbledore, very irritably, ‘there are a lot of Toms’. Voldemort had great aspirations, and wanted a name that was anything but common. For this reason, his new identity, ‘Lord Voldemort’ was born. ‘Lord’ has impositions of grandeur, and a complete lack of commonality, and Voldemort just sounds inherently sinister and fear-inciting.

In the Chamber of secrets it is revealed that Voldemort’s full real name, Tom Marvolo Riddle, is an anagram for ‘I am Lord Voldemort’. His name, though it seems fairly arbitrary, actually makes sense in many different ways- let’s start by breaking down all of the aspects of his name to see what his name is all about....
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