Riddle To Voldemort: Why Voldemort Was DESPERATE To Erase Tom Riddle

[@YellowBear-kx1ff]

During Voldemort’s takeover of the Ministry, half-bloods were still accepted as they technically had “legally inherited magic”, they just weren’t treated as well as the pure-bloods.

[@pervertedstoner69reborn70]

It breaks my heart that innocent people in dictatorships get “arrested” and executed simply for “being” the undesirable race. Judge Claude Frollo hunted down Romani people including Esmeralda for “witchcraft”. Adolf Hitler hunted down Jews and blamed them for Germany’s problems. Voldemort hunted down muggleborns for “stealing” magic.

[@gaelofariandel6747]

What about 7/8th bloods?

[@matheuslima9445]

A half blood - umbridge - was responsible to hunt muggle borns in The ministry

[@aristogan]

Damn Voldemort was not just evil but also a hypocrite since he is a mudblood

[@Admiral_Castle]

​@@aristoganhe wasn't a mudblood, he was a half-blood. A mudblood has no magical parents

[@Larka661]

In retrospect, Lord Voldemort was almost like Tom Riddle's other personality. A persona. Once Riddle got out of Hogwarts, he pretty much deleted Tom Riddle, because he hated his father and who he once believed he was. He was already angry at the world, but once he found out his lineage, he began to hate himself. Thus trying to change who he actually was, by doing all the deviation he caused. He was ashamed of who he thought he was, and re created himself as Lord Voldemort.

[@macwelch8599]

People who knew Voldemort was Tom Riddle since the beginning: Dumbledore, obvious Hagrid, most likely Lucius Malfoy? He’s certainly smart enough to figure it out Harry Potter, no explanation needed Horace Slughorn Bellatrix? Definitely possible

[@randomusername3873]

Most of the death eaters were his friends at school and then become his followers, so I think is fair to assume they knew

[@crow_g1639]

@@randomusername3873 well I always liked how ironic Voldemort was half blood it made it more interesting

[@lordming7761]

Avery , Lestrange ?

[@Alexanderiii]

@@lordming7761 Peter Pettigrew knew because he used Tom Riddle Sr's bone for the spell that brought Voldermort back to full power.

[@btristin01]

Everyone knew it. He clearly said it in the goblet of fire. He told Harry, in the presence of multiple death eaters, about his “filthy muggle father”

[@pauljosephmigliore8803]

I think that Tom Riddle and Lord Voldemort are two different kinds of people that have two separate things on the mind. For Tom riddle is that he wanted to get rid of the part of his past. And for Voldemort is that he wanted to have people view those that are pure blood are better than anybody else because they were the ones that were persecuted first because the Muggles were afraid of magic.

[@crow_g1639]

the first person Voldemort killed was Tom Riddle because of his family his muggle name , he hated it more than anything

[@MarkusMaack]

Well, no one’s going to be afraid of The Dark Lord Tom!

[@MartillodeMiller]

Well maybe Voldemort is someone who was born because of the lack of humanity Tom Riddle had after making his first two or three horcrux. Maybe Tom just wanted power and immortality but never thought of becoming someone like the Voldemort figure represented at the end. He looked at the monster inside of him but the monster took over him.

[@DaG.O.A.T.]

Voldemort & Tom riddle both thought of themselves as above everyone

[@SergioBecerraII]

I still want to know how Tom Riddle found the Chamber of Secrets when he was at school.

[@michaeldalgleish4335]

My headcannon was more or less the same way harry did, if the basilisk was living in the castle for 1000's years then perhaps he heard the snake (given he was a parsley mouth),

[@gaelofariandel6747]

@@michaeldalgleish4335 I thought the Basalisk was only using the pipes because Tom opened the chamber.

[@millerjames908]

I like to head cannon he was creeping on Wamberga Black

[@crow_g1639]

use your head Tom was a magnificent wizard I wouldn't be surprised if he had done it in his 4th year

[@CityStarrzz]

My head canon says that there isn’t only one thing in the castle that responds to pastel tongue. Much like Harry getting information from others, that he ends up linking to check stuff. Something will have led him to the bathroom in search of a sign.

[@rickershomesteadahobbyfarm3291]

Some thing that I wonder is why didn’t they put Tom Riddle in a magical orphanage? Why would they continue sending him back to the Muggle orphanage?

[@brandonmyers5448]

You have a good point

[@CiabanItReal]

There is this assumption that lord Voldemort became disfigured ugly and snake like as a by product of dark magic or making horcruxes. But what if it was intentional, that for as much as he liked positive attention and praise, and his very good looks were admired, he hated it, because he got them from his father, and being good looking was part of who TOM RIDDLE was, so to be Lord Voldemort, he would need to be ugly and twisted instead.

[@Slytherinarmy]

Perhaps a couple or so of the death eaters knew that Voldemort is a half blood, but pretended not to know, or perhaps heard of this but thought it was a rumor/wasn't true. Even if they knew, they clearly dismissed it & saw Voldemort as an exception of the only half-blood they accept/tolerate since he's Voldemort/their master. Bellatrix didn't know that Voldemort was a half blood, until harry told her this, but of course, she didn't believe him and thought he was lying. She became furious when he told her this fact, not believing him, not believing one bit that her beloved master was a half-blood like harry told her. It was just a lie to her, and she refused to believe it. She probably thought Harry said this to her to get to her/make her mad. Even if she would've found out that Harry was telling her the truth, of course she would've been shocked since she wouldn't believe her master, as powerful as he is/was, was a half blood & not a pureblood like her & the rest of his followers. Would she've tried to abandon him or looked down upon him because of him being a half blood? honestly, I think it would be a shock for her at first but despite her extreme pro pureblood beliefs, I think Voldemort would've been an exception for her & would've accepted the fact but wouldn't see him for his blood status but for who he's/who he became into Voldemort, the man she fell in love with.

[@lavinialadlass9432]

Lord Voldemort sounds like a personality tom riddle created.

[@benallen3768]

It basically is lol

[@clairemc83]

I think the deatheaters who knew his blood status accepted him as he he served their ideals, and he was powerful, so they overlooked his half blood staus.

[@unionjack84]

The ones in the graveyard when he got his body back had to know. It was a muggle cemetery. Barty Crouch, Jr knew, right? Didn't he tell Bellatrix, but she didn't believe him?

[@jamieA7Xfan90]

Or she simply called him a filthy balf-blood

[@katmaresparkles9578]

Perhaps Tom told his fellow slytherins that the name he had was just given to him by the people who ran the orphanage and it wasn't his true name.

[@sifilore]

I don't believe Tom Riddle and Voldemort were 2 literally different people, cause that would just say he had a split personality. But characteristic-metaphorically, as in some stories (movies and series) of someone who suffered amnesia but do remember some things, or rl of veterans who have changed by war, then yes they were different. Realistically now Tom would only b contained inside him but could never b destroyed. He was born as Tom Riddle, lived *"as"* to *"with"* Tom, and died with him still inside.

[@crow_g1639]

Tom is just a name for Voldemort he hated his name so he changed it its the same person idk why the confusion

[@shanefarrell2047]

Very cool,He was a product of denial and self hatred 😎

[@lemonking3644]

VIDEO SUGGESTION: 1) Had Dumbledore known that young Tom Riddle would turn into Voldemort would he have killed him as a child 2) Voldemort never existed what would the death eaters be doing such as Bellatrix 3) Voldemort was born out of the miss use of the love potion. If another witch or wizard is born from the love potion, could another Voldemort arise, I was he a rare case.

[@sageseeker9197]

I think a few people were born that way, the thing with Voldemort was these three very important factors: Anti Social Personality Disorder. Powerful magical ability. High IQ and charisma. If you remove two of those things, namely, the thing that's not a symptom of his brain chemistry. Now, you get somebody who's quite intelligent, clever, quite ambitious, with a very high level of magical power, who's got a unique power, and a personality disorder from imbalanced brain chemistry, allegedly from the love potion but more likely a side effect from his incestuous bloodline, as that's how we got mental illnesses. Put this person inside of an orphanage, with no good role model or person to correct any misbehavior in an effective way, with no resources to handle a child so different from the others. Then put them in a school, inside of the house that breeds hatred. Not because being a slytherin makes you inherently bad, but because those who seek out power are more easily corrupted, and therefore, Slytherin alumni are more likely to be bigots. So you put him, a poor, low class, wearing second hand everything, having second hand everything, screaming poverty, who would not know anything about the world he's entering, not the social aspects no matter how much research he would do before hand. You put this boy, who is already prepped for apathy and sadism, into a group of bigots, who would know he's not one of them, and not a pureblood. He would look like a muggleborn. Unless he revealed his ability. This boy would be very easily swayed to this kind of mentality, because he would center himself as the most important thing, because that's how it's always been for him. He was a freak in the orphanage, out of place, and now he was a freak at school, out of place with nobody like him. Now, he obviously knew how to manipulate, and would have quickly realized that to be the better strategy and that blunt bullying, no that would need to be quiet, and subtle. Then this boy realizes the father he had been hoping was a wizard, was not. He would have searched for the name "Riddle" everywhere and found nothing. Then he would have to turn to his mother, realizing she, in her magical power, would be the one who gave him magic. And she died. Which means he can die, just like anyone else. Not to mention the World War that starts around the same time he's in school, and the London Blitz happening around then as well. He'd have wondered if his father is alive. He'd have wondered why his father had left him. Why, all this time, he never bothered. Did he know about Tom? Of course, then Tom finds out his Dad is the Muggle, and his Dad was alive. Then he would have gone and confronted his father. Tom is very skilled in the mental arts, so seeing into his father's head would be easy. I believe it might not have been instant, as any child at this point would want to know if their father even wanted them. Tom would be faced with a man who thought of him as a mistake, as a freak, and as something he'd rather forget existed or ever happened. This would have enraged Tom and sealed the fates of all parties. I mean, I'm not sure Tom would have let them live anyways, very little could at that point. Tom would have been bothered by his poverty. He would have been bothered by his status. His class. For somebody like him, he hated that he was like that while most of the other Slytherins were either well of, or very well off. Most of the students in the school were well off, compared to Tom. So while another sociopath might be born, and they might be evil, they would not be on the same scale and end up put down, or jailed like any other criminal.

[@TheRealJeffFuller]

Tom made at very best the second horcrux, we don't know how many were made between the first and the ones voldemort made

[@danielgoodrich264]

I think Voldemort being the heir of Slytherin balanced out the muggle blood for those who knew.

[@VincentWeasleyPotter]

In order to become a god one must kill his past!!

[@Steve-sl8rc]

I would assume it was more his drive than magical genetics that made him so powerful

[@Mr.PepeSilvia]

Great psychological dive on Voldemort Mr Dean 👍

[@StevenCookFX]

Tom Riddle was not the first to create the horcrux. The fact that he read about it shows that.

[@HarryPotterFolklore]

That’s not what I meant, I meant it as a growth point for Tom in comparison to what he achieved as Voldemort

[@paulcowlishaw]

Of course they knew. Well, the main ones like Lucius and Bellatrix and so on.

[@jdeljones]

@5:55 But isn't the sacred 28 just the historically pure Wizarding families. The Potters aren't on there bc Lily is Muggle-born, but Harry is still considered to be a pure blood bc both of his parents are wizards right? Umbridge isn't one of the sacred 28 families but Delores still is able to fool people into thinking she's a pure blood.

[@GamerX51]

I think you're misunderstanding what the term "Pure blood" means in the Wizarding world. It doesn't matter if both of your parents are wizards; what matters is whether there is any muggle blood anywhere in your family. If you have any muggle ancestors at all, then you are NOT a pure blood according to the strict definition espoused by pure blood supremacists like the Blacks and the Malfoys.

[@jdeljones]

@@GamerX51 I think you're wrong. Muggle-born is self explanatory. Half-blood is 1 Muggle-born and 1 "pure-blood" parent. And pure blood is 2 wizarding parents. Those are the three groups outlined in the series. There isn't a 'both my parents are wizards but we probably have some muggle ancestry in there' group. Or at least that's not outlined in the materials. My original point is that if these sacred 28 families are the only pure blood families then it's pretty easy to figure out that Voldemort aka Riddle is at least a half-blood. And Umbridge. And Crabbe & Goyle. And pretty much anyone else. Just check the list.

[@connie40star]

Your point on during the first war the Death Eaters would have been young and not know who Tom Riddle is quite true, however what about Rosie are Nott, crab Goyle, these are all Death Eaters that attended Hogwarts when Tom Riddle was at school so they knew his bloodline they knew he was Half-Blood but yet they still followed him. I think those that knew that he was Half-Blood followed him because of his immense dark magic his immense dark power and they were too afraid of what he would do to them and they were also hugely in an admiration of him so much that they overlooked that he was half blood. Once again you and I are on the same wave length, I've often wondered why those deatheaters that knew whom Tom Riddle was still followed him. Thx forvthe video, and I'm glad your back. Don't forget to take care of yourself so you can take care of your family. Peace out.

[@zoa1-99.......]

4:17 No it wasn't, it was Herpo The Foul.

[@molitareal6204]

Hey Dean, loved your content, i was wondering if you ever consider having a spotify channel as well, I love hearing ur take on the lore, especially when driving long distance. Just a suggestion!

[@HossBlacksilver]

I'm just left wondering if Riddle was so obsessed with pure blood, why was Snape allowed unbroken the Death Eaters inner circle since he to was half-blood.

[@hackman669]

Pawn?!

[@AndrewSmoot]

It would be devastating to Voldemort's cause if anyone traced him back to Tom Riddle Sr., and found out that he was a Half-blood.

[@Thebroshow13]

Voldermort is very similar to Darth Vader unlike Vader , Tom was evil from the beginning , also fun fact , in hogwarts legecy , the player meets voldermort grandfather .

[@ravenzyblack]

That isn’t his grandfather. Ominus Gant was Marvolo’s brother. That would make him an Uncle, to Tom Riddle.

[@MsDrummergirl]

He's the same and he's different. He's as evil as always but he created a new persona regarding his past. And because of that he became a "strong" leader driven by his hate for muggles ( his mother). Narcissists can leave their past behind as if it doesn't excist at all. I'm not saying he's a narcissist but perhaps the traits are there. And if they knew they wouldn't dare to say anything.

[@wvu05]

Tom's father was the Muggle.

[@MsDrummergirl]

@@wvu05 Yes , you're right. My mistake 🙂

[@cpjosh8226]

We need an r-rated Voldemort origins series

[@ClefairyFairySnowflake]

I believe that Tom Riddle and Voldemort are the same person, just different sides of the coin so to speak. Depending as to which way the "coin" lands is what you get: heads for Tom, tails for Voldemort.

[@jabronisauce6833]

No they definitely knew but what are they going to do? None of them could match his power and a half blood is still an acceptable status among them considering the blood pool has become so diluted they hate themselves more if they aren't an 100 percent pureblood.

[@samuellaakso7012]

Since Voldemort was at the time of his death already at his 70's, I wonder can a person who's made a horcrux even die of old age?

[@Scorpio_Love_11]

@ 4:17 actually he didn’t create the first horcrux

[@tylersmith9465]

U should do videos about Peveral brothers Salazar slithering the grunts and Voldemort dueling or talking to each other🪄🐍

[@joeaustin4472]

I've always wondered, Tom Riddle.. or Lord Voldemort.. yes he was intent on destroying half bloods and muggle borns, but I know he claimed muggle lives. I know he controlled the death eaters and he attacked muggle homes and places en mass, and yeah Harry Potter was his only one true enemy that could vanquish him, but at the height of his return when chaos was all around and he was attacking the muggle world as well as the wizarding world.. if Voldemort wanted Harry even more vulnerable than what he was, why didn't he attack the Dursleys? Wouldn't it have made more sense to kill the Dursleys and leave Harry more open to attack? He must have known where Harry was living, he had Supporters everywhere, and if Harry was among muggles that would have been a tempting target.. if Harry was alone like he was as a kid, Voldemort would have had a much easier job on attacks Wouldn't he? I know this is different to the video facts posted but I just thought it'd be something related to the fact that Voldemort was on a cause to cleanse the world of non-pure bloods so.. I was just wondering why he didn't go and do just that. Luna Lovegood once stated if she was Voldemort she'd want Harry as vulnerable as possible.. so.. yeah this is probably going to get dislikes and bad word from the viewers but I'm just stating a word of question. Great video Dean, love Harry Potter.. got both the books and the films.

[@CallemJayNZ]

Gosh young Tom is gorgeous in those first few pictures. I was trying to get A.I to create an image of what he would have looked like on the night he had his interview with Dumbledore regarding the Defense Against the Dark Arts position (An older but rougher version of the handsome Tom Riddle, but the snake like traits were becoming apparent if I remember Harry's description during the penseive visit in HBP) but it kept on coming back with pictures that looked nothing like the description. Would you be able to create the right prompts to get it to produce a picture of what he would have looked like that night he hid the Diadem?

[@Zshadow-t1i]

Voldemort was not the first to make a horcrux. Herpo the foul was.

[@jaredquinney204]

I was always curious about this

[@msrainbowbrite]

All the picture of Merope and Tom Sr, where did you get them?

[@Jay-ql4gp]

Thank you, that was good!

[@yitziyyb]

Didn't seem by Snape that Slytherins cared as well

[@robertsmiley2207]

The death eater's that went to school with him must have known

[@yitziyyb]

So do you think if Rita Skeeter made an expose, it would've distroted his following?

[@darkmaster6481]

I think Tom Riddle and Voldemort were the same person until he made more Horcrux causing him to less human and more of a demon.

[@MsDrummergirl]

I've been going through the book's and that precise question have been on my mind 😀. Did they know?

[@Edward-nf4nc]

Barty Crouch Jr tells Harry that both he and the Dark Lord had disappointing fathers, both were named after their fathers, and both killed their fathers. This sounds like Barty Crouch Jr knew Voldemort was a first generation half blood.

[@alannajones330]

I don't think that any of the modern generation of death eaters know. Probably Abraxas Malfoy's generation knew. But at the same time I don't think that Lucas Malfoy's generation knew. You would have had to gone to school with him and be inside slytherin to know.

[@madsfuglsang4019]

The first Horcrux was created by Herpo the Foul not voldemort he was the first to make more Them one 4:17 other then that great video

[@Arthur-oy4nj]

They are the same person.

[@rossbaker7400]

Can avada kadava acturlly be locked using the same curse would it come down to who has to most killing intent or power?

[@LoveHandle4890]

Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort.

[@paulcowlishaw]

Lord Voldermor. The T's silent

[@imember7375]

what if the statute of secrecy never happened and wizards and muggles coexisted

[@GamerX51]

There's no way that ends well for Wizardkind. History already shows exactly what would have happened if the statute of secrecy had never come into effect; muggles would have wiped out all of Wizardkind in a massive genocide, and that would be the end of it all. 😐

[@ronniecorbett6306]

No one is Full Blood.

[@patrickmorris24]

First and love these videos

[@goodwind3190]

So just like Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader.

[@KrowTheOmEgA777]

So basically magic Hitler

[@notadaytrader]

Haha, if two of the most powerful wizards of their century were both confirmed half bloods (Albus and Tom) why does the idea that pure blood wizards are stronger continue to permeate? I’m looking more specifically at Albus, who is renowned to be stronger than Merlin himself at points, is half blood, and is a pro-muggle spokesperson. People haven’t put it together that maybe.. pure blood status doesn’t mean 💩?

[@Velozz々]

Voldemort makes me think about Hitler.

[@wantedadproductions1169]

Snape was half blood to for that matter “half blood prince” anyone actually put that together to lol

[@FerrariKing]

Tom Riddle and Voltomort were just misunderstood

[@kingSpeedy23]

Tom didn’t create the first horcrux , herpo the foul did I think ?

[@jaywaller4151]

anakin Skywalker can do it so can tom riddle 😂

[@crow_g1639]

bro don't compare a woke series with this one

[@jaywaller4151]

@CROW _G a woke series what hell are u talking about the star wars I'm talking pre Kathleen Kennedy.

[@user-adrsilva123]

Yo Harry Potter Folkore Do What If Grindelwald Was Teleported to Voldemort Era who would Everyone React?

[@crow_g1639]

well well if you mean prime vs prime then Grindeldwald would probably have his Elder wand meaning theirs 2 ways it can go the wand would betray Grindelwald and choose Voldy or Grindeldwald destroys all the horrocruxes to beat Voldemort

[@melanievetter6211]

🥰😍😊🏞🏝🏜

[@tylersmith9465]

What would happen if Tom riddle mother family members entered Hogwarts would they take over the world live longer die earlier🌎👩

[@hieumongous2908]

most of them knew about this, but they need someone to feed them what they want to hear and strong enough to do the evil deeds. Just like Hitler, he's not blonde and blue eyes, but he promise the people what they wanted, and they just needed that to support him

[@EmperorDarthOP]

Harry Potter Folklore Could you Pretty please! Make a video about What If Albus Severus Potter & Delphi Riddle fell in love with eachother (as adults) & had childern together? (Without her comitting any crimes in this timeline like she did in The Cursed Child.)

[@stttttipa]

Why... this sounds like some terrible fanfiction

[@wvu05]

​@@stttttipa Well, it is an idea borne of terrible fanfiction, so I guess hoping for better would be like hoping to get fruit from mud ;-)

[@Axcelion1987]

Tom/Voldemort did not make the first Horcrux.

[@HarryPotterFolklore]

it was meant in terms of separately the 2 personalities in terms of what tom riddle done and what voldemort done

[@Demonoicgamer666]

Tom riddle didn’t create the first horcrux

[@HarryPotterFolklore]

I meant as a perspective between he and Voldemort

[@Demonoicgamer666]

Personally I don’t see a difference between Tom and Voldemort.

[@ketselatekle2939]

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[@martinmarigomen2767]

great use of ai

[@luckimonster2298]

I think Voldemort is a filthy mud-blood 😒... He isn't pure-blooded like lord Grindelwald 😊...😃