Tom Riddle

 Tom Riddle a.k.a Slytherin's Prince

Biographical information

Full Name

Tom Marvolo Riddle

Date of Birth

December 31, 1926; Wool's Orphanage, London

Blood status

Half-blood

Marital status

Married

Also known as

• Lord Voldemort (self-proclaimed title and chosen name)

• The Dark Lord

• One True Heir of Slytherin

• Pureblood Supremacist

Title(s)

• Perfect

• Parselmouth

• Legilimens

• Head Boy

• Dark Lord

Physical information

Species

Human

Gender

Male

Hair Color

Black

Eye color

Dark Brown

Skin color

Pale

Family information

Children

• Aleister Salazar Riddle (son; alternative timeline)

• Delphini Diggory (daughter; erased original timeline)

Parents

• Tom Riddle Sr. † (father)

• Merope Gaunt † (mother)

Grandparents

• Thomas Riddle † (paternal grandfather)

• Mary Riddle † (paternal grandmother)

• Marvolo Gaunt † (maternal grandfather)

Uncles

Morfin Gaunt † (maternal uncle)

Ancestors

• Salazar Slytherin † (distant ancestor)

• Cadmus Peverell † (distant ancestor) 

• Corvinus Gaunt † (distant ancestor) 

Relationships

Allies

• Abraxas Malfoy
• Ralph Lestrange
• Ichabod Avery
• Walburga Black
• Orion Black
• Druella Rosier-Black
• Evander Rosier
• Mark Mulciber
• Cantankerus Nott
• Delphini "Delphi" Diggory

Romances

Delphini Diggory (wife)

Enemies

• Gellert Grindelwald †

• Prof. Albus Dumbledore

• British Ministry of Magic

Magical characteristics

Powers / Skills

• Genius-level intelligence
• Mastery of Magic
• Dark Arts
• Dueling
• Parseltongue (inborn ability to communicate with serpents)
• Mastery of Legilimency and Occlumency
• Possession
• Charms
• Transfiguration
• Spell creation
• Potions
• Unsupported flight
• Pyrokinesis
• Non-verbal and wandless magic
• Elemental mastery
• Wand versatility
• Charisma
• Leadership
• Manipulation
• Intimidation
• Indomitable willpower

Boggart

His own lifeless body

Wand

13½", Yew, phoenix feather core

Patronus

None

Hobby

• Killing and torturing his enemies (either to further his plans or for his entertainment)

• Plotting and scheming

• Punishing his followers

Goals

• Become the greatest sorcerer in the entire Wizarding World (succeeded)

• Kill Albus Dumbledore (indirectly succeeded)

• Create Horcruxes to become immortal (succeeded)

Crimes

• Malefic
• Familicide
• Theft
• Torture
• Organized crime
• Attempted world domination
• Kidnapping
• Conspiracy
• Breaking
• Infiltration
• Defilement
• Abuse of power
• Psychological abuse
• Incrimination
• Brainwashing
• Mutilation
• Enslavement
• Endangerment
• Hate crimes

Affiliation

Occupation

Student at Hogwarts

House

Slytherin 𓆘

Loyalty

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

• Slytherin

• Slug Club

• Tom Riddle's gang

• Knights of Walburgis

• House of Black

Tom Marvolo Riddle, known as Lord Voldemort and Dark Lord, was born in 1926 to Tom Riddle Senior, a Muggle-born father, and Merope Gaunt, a pure-blood wizard.

Hogwarts years (1938 - 1945)

Riddle was educated at Hogwarts from 1938 to 1945 and was sorted into Slytherin House, a nod to his ancestor, Salazar Slytherin. During summer breaks, he was forced to return to the Muggle orphanage, which he despised and dreaded more than any other place on Earth.

Riddle described Throw as 'poor, but brilliant, parentless, but so brave, a school prefect, a model student'. Due to his exceptional acting abilities and handsome looks, he was able to convince virtually all of the Hogwarts staff and instructors that his kinder façade was his true personality. The sole exception to this was Dumbledore, who, though not necessarily suspicious of Riddle, never forgot about his misdeeds at the orphanage, nor his unsettling behavior during their first meeting. In turn, he realized that he had been careless in showing Dumbledore his true character upon their first meeting, and never attempted to win him over as he had with his other instructors. In time, he came to fear and despise Dumbledore.

Over time, Riddle gathered to himself a gang of Slytherin thugs, a motley composition of 'the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty', most of whom would become the first Death Eaters. Riddle claimed they were his friends and made it appear so in public, but in truth, they amounted to little more than servants, and he cared for them almost nothing. He often manipulated them into committing petty crimes and other misdeeds, but none of these incidents were reliably traced back to the group.

Opening the Chamber of Secrets

Upon arriving at Hogwarts, Riddle became obsessed with his heritage and began researching it with an insatiable hunger. He focused solely on the identity of his father, still thinking of him to be the magical parent, as he had held onto his beliefs that death was a Muggle consequence and a weakness. He searched for his father's name in the school trophy room, in the records of Hogwarts prefects, and in records of wizarding history, but found nothing to suggest his father had even attended Hogwarts. He was eventually forced to accept that his father was the Muggle parent and that his mother was the magical one. It was around this time that Riddle gave himself the alias 'Lord Voldemort', to spare himself being reminded of his 'filthy Muggle father', who he later learned had abandoned his wife after learning she was a witch (although in reality, he left her after she stopped controlling him with a love potion).

Using his middle name, Marvolo, which was taken from his maternal grandfather, Riddle discovered his mother's heritage and the Gaunts' bloodline connection with Salazar Slytherin. Once Riddle learned of his ancestry, it was not long before he discovered the existence of the Chamber of Secrets under Hogwarts during his fifth year, and tamed the Basilisk which dwelt within. As the Heir of Slytherin through his mother's family, Tom was able to open the Chamber that Slytherin had left behind to 'purge the school of all those who [were] unworthy to study magic' — in Riddle's and Slytherin's eyes, Muggle-borns.

Meeting a mysterious girl

Riddle patrols the halls every night, which he doesn't like, but he likes to take points away from the other house students. Suddenly, he notices the girl lying on the ground and runs to her side. He notices the girl is unconscious, not dead, then picks her up and takes her to the hospital wing. The next day, Riddle comes back to check on an unknown girl whom he found yesterday; however, Dumbledore and Dippet are already there. A girl wakes up and is frightened, but can talk and tells them was run by dark wizards who killed her family. However, Riddle does not believe her, and he uses Legilimency on her, but her walls are somehow blocked, and he knows the girl was Occlumens; however girl looks at Riddle and shakes her head only. She tells Dumbledore and Dippet that her name is Delphini.

Magical abilities and skills

• Parseltongue: Riddle was a Parselmouth, a trait he inherited from his ancestor, Salazar Slytherin, the magical ability to communicate with snakes. It seems that most of his Gaunt ancestors (even his mother, grandfather, and uncle) inherited this highly unusual trait; such traits are commonly passed down through families through inbreeding, a practice employed by the Gaunt family.

• Occlumency and Legilimency: Riddle was exceptionally adept and gifted in the use of both Occlumency and Legilimency, being able to effectively shield his own mind and penetrate the minds of others. He was particularly talented and skilled in Legilimency. His frighteningly exceptional prowess in Legilimency allowed Voldemort to delve and peer deep into the minds of others without needing to say the incantation or use his wand, seeing their deepest thoughts, and he could even use Legilimency to influence the minds that he invaded.

• Dark Arts: Riddle was exceptionally skilled in the Dark Arts, widely considered to be the most powerful practitioner of the Dark Arts the world had ever known during his reign of terror. He had a masterful knowledge of the most arcane and complex magic that wizardkind was capable of and could perform successfully, such as the ability to create Horcruxes and raise an army of Inferi using necromancy. He had a particular affinity for the Killing Curse, having murdered enough people to create an entire army of Inferi, and was able to cast this curse effectively while still underage and using Morfin Gaunt's wand.

• Duelling: Riddle was a duellist of immense, nearly unparalleled skill, with his only rival being Dumbledore.

• Intellectual genius: Riddle was not only a great wizard, but also possessed an incredible genius intellect, as he was considered to be the most brilliant student ever to attend Hogwarts by Dumbledore. His intellect is evidenced by his strategic cunning in being able to mastermind and orchestrate two of the most destructive wars. He also proved himself to be a skilled researcher, having successfully discovered his heritage with his middle name, and, by extension, the location of the Chamber of Secrets and his status as the Heir of Slytherin.

• Charisma: Even at a young age, Riddle displayed a remarkable talent for the manipulation of others, being able to manipulate Horace Slughorn into telling him about Horcruxes and gain the trust of every teacher in Hogwarts, with only Albus Dumbledore managing to not be swayed by Voldemort's charisma. He also surrounded himself with a group of friends who would become Death Eaters, though Voldemort felt no affection for any of them.

• Acting skills: Besides his formidable magical skills and extensive knowledge of magic, as a teenager, Tom proved to be a consummate actor, being able to hide his true nature from almost everyone in Hogwarts except Dumbledore. He was able to convince virtually all of the Hogwarts staff and instructors that his facade of being a model student was his true personality and was able to avoid the discovery of his having opened the Chamber of Secrets.

• Leadership skills: Even when he was still only a young student, Riddle was already a very effective leader, as he was able to lead the forerunners of the Death Eaters to effectively sneak past surveillance, being responsible for several nasty incidents that were never connected to them, showing that even at a young age, Riddle was a very competent leader. As he grew older and gained more experience in leading and thus honed leadership skills further, Tom's style of leadership presumably changed from the original charismatic rule of the Hogwarts gang to the tyrannical and completely ruthless, though no less highly effective, command of his Death Eaters demonstrated.

Relationships

Family:

Parents

Not very knowledgeable about his parents because his mother, Merope, died after giving birth to him, and his father was a Muggle after leaving his mother. However later years, Riddle discovers the truth that his father was a Muggle and he killed both his paternal grandparents and his father. Also then he arrived at Gaunt's house and put fake memories on Mofin's head.

Uncles

Morfin Gaunt

Morfin was Tom Riddle's maternal uncle. When Morfin first saw him, he thought that he was Tom Riddle Senior.

Grandparents

Marvolo Gaunt

Riddle has a grandfather known as Marvolo Gaunt (his mother's father); however, Tom never met Marvolo because he died shortly after, according to Morfin Gaunt. He had other grandparents also on his paternal side, but he killed them along with his Muggle father in 1943. 

Outside family

Allies:

Abraxas Malfoy

Abraxas was Tom's rightful hand and one of his loyal followers.