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Comments and insights on the name Voldemort: | Edit

"I am Lord Voldemort" is an anagram of Voldemort's full birth name, Tom Marvolo Riddle.

Personal experiences with the name Voldemort: | Edit

He tried to kill me when I was just a baby! :(

Nicknames for Voldemort: | Edit

voldey, el voldemort, he-who-shall-not be named, minister of darkness, sir goodtimes,

Meanings and history of the name Voldemort: | Edit

Created by author J.K. Rowling for the arch-villain of the Harry Potter series. Rowling has indicated that she simply created the name for effect, but observers have linked the name to:

- Edgar Allen Poe's story "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," in which a mesmerist suspends a dying man in a state neither alive nor dead

- The French vol + de + mort "flight of death" (note that the author says that the final t in Voldemort is silent)

- Sketchy reports of a medieval legend of an evil wizard Voldemortist who fought Merlin in the days before Arthur

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Voldemort in song, story & screen: | Edit

Lord Voldemort, the villain of the Harry Potter series