Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort a.k.a You-Know-Who
Biographical information
Full Name
Tom Marvolo Riddle (birth name)
Birth
December 31, 1926, Wool's Orphanage, London
Death
May 2, 1998, Great Hall, Hogwarts Castle
Cause of death
Backfired by his own Killing Curse (after Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore succeeded in destroying all of his Horcruxes)
Age
71
Blood status
Half-blood
Marital status
Unmarried
Also known as
- Lord Voldemort (self-proclaimed title and chosen name)
- You-Know-Who (used by those who are too afraid or if it is too dangerous to refer to him by his chosen name)
- He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named (used along the same line as "You-Know-Who")
- The Dark Lord
- Your Lordship (used by Wormtail)
- Chief Death Eater (used by Lee Jordan)
- Heir of Slytherin
Title(s)
- Prefect
- Head Boy
- Dark Lord
Status
Deceased
Physical information
Species
Human
Gender
Male
Hair Color
- Bald
- Black (formerly)
Eye color
- Red
- Dark Brown
Skin color
- White
- Pale (formerly)
Family information
Children
Delphini (daughter; due to love potion effect)
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 ✝️ (ancestor)
- Cadmus Peverell ✝️ (ancestor)
- Corvinus Gaunt ✝️ (antecedent)
Descendants
- James Potter ✝️ (a distant cousin)
- Lily Evans-Potter ✝️ (distant cousin-in-law)
- Harry Potter (distant first cousin, once removed)
- Ginny Weasley-Potter (distant first cousin-in-law, once removed)
- James Potter II (distant first cousin, twice removed)
- Albus Potter (distant first cousin, twice removed)
- Lily Potter II (distant first cousin, twice removed)
Relationships
Allies
- Avery ✝️
- Lestrange ✝️
- Rosier ✝️
- Mulciber I ✝️
- Nott ✝️
- Abraxas Malfoy ✝️ (servant and right-hand man)
- Regulus Black II ✝️ (former servant and traitor)
- Draco Malfoy (former servant)
- Lucius Malfoy (former servant and former right-hand man)
- Narcissa Black-Malfoy (formerly)
- Death Eaters
- Igor Karkaroff † (former servant)
- British Ministry of Magic (briefly)
- Bellatrix Black-Lestrange ✝️ (right-hand woman, paramour, and most loyal servant)
- Delphini (only in alternate timeline II)
- Fenrir Greyback (associate)
- Nagini ✝️ (loyal pet)
- Bartemius Crouch Jr. ✝️
- Prof. Severus Snape ✝️ (former servant and traitor, victim)
- Peter Pettigrew ✝️
- Prof. Dolores Umbridge (associate)
- Prof. Quirinus Quirrell ✝️ (brainwashed victim and servant)
Romances
Bellatrix Black-Lestrange ✝️ (paramour; 1 daughter)
Enemies
- House of Gaunt ✝️
- Riddle family ✝️
- Prof. Albus Dumbledore ✝️ (arch-enemy)
- Prof. Severus Snape ✝️
- Prof. Horace Slughorn
- Hepzibah Smith ✝️
- Gellert Grindelwald ✝️ (arch-enemy)
- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
- Order of the Phoenix (arch-enemies)
- British Ministry of Magic (arch-enemies)
- Draco Malfoy
- Lucius Malfoy
- Narcissa Malfoy
- Scorpius Malfoy (in the erased alternate timeline II)
- House of Weasley
- Potter family
- Sirius Black III ✝️
- Regulus Black II ✝️
Magical characteristics
Powers/skills
- Magic Mystery
- Dark Magic
- Dueling
- Parselmouth
- Potions
- Charms
- Pyrokinesis
- Apparation
- Control of Underage Magic
- Occlumency and Legilimency
- Flying
- Trnasfiguration
- Defense against Dark Magic
- Spell creation
- Inferi Creation and Control
- Possession
- Wandless Magic
- Wand Versatility
- Charisma
- Acting
- Leadership skills
- Salesmanship
- Teaching Skills
- Intellectual Genius
Boggart
His own lifeless body
Wand(s)
- 13½", Yew, phoenix feather core
- 18", Elm, dragon heartstring (temporary)
- 15", Elder, Thestral tail hair core (briefly, never mastered; mastered in an alternate timeline created by Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter)
Items
- his diary
- Helga Hufflepuff's Cup
- Marvolo Gaunt's Ring
- Resurrection Stone (briefly)
- Slytherin locket
- Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem
- Elder Wand (formerly)
- His wand (formerly)
Patronus
None (can't cast a Patronus)
Likes
Manipulating others, immortality, using and manipulating people, blood purity, Pure-bloods witches and wizards
Dislikes
Death, his subordinates, Harry Potter, Muggle-born witches and wizards, normal people, his half-blood heritage
Goal
To kill Harry Potter and take over the Muggle and wizarding worlds (failed)
Fate
Falls to the ground after being defeated by Harry Potter once and for all in the Great Hall when his Killing Curse rebounds on him
Affiliation
Residences
- Slytherin Dungeon (during the school year; formerly)
- Albania (formerly)
- Wool's Orphanage (formerly)
- Malfoy Manor (formerly)
Occupation
Assistant at Borgin and Burkes (formerly)
House
Slytherin
Loyalty
- House of Gaunt (formerly)
- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (formerly)
- House of Slytherin
- Slug Club
- Tom Riddle's gang
- Knights of Walburgis (at the beginning, the name of the Death Eaters)
- Borgin and Burkes
- British Ministry of Magic (under his control; briefly)
Tom Marvolo Riddle (December 31, 1926 – May 2, 1998), later known as Lord Voldemort, was a half-blood wizard considered the most powerful Dark Wizard of all time. He was the son of wealthy Muggle Tom Riddle Sr. and witch Merope Gaunt, who died shortly after childbirth. He was the heir of Salazar Slytherin and was ordered to finish his work. Tom Riddle Sr. left his wife soon after she became pregnant with their son, having been released from the enchantment of a love potion that had started their relationship. Their son, Tom Marvolo Riddle, was born and raised in a Muggle orphanage but eventually attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (1938-1945) and was sorted into the Slytherin House. Tom Riddle was the most talented pupil to ever attend Hogwarts. To the school, he appeared to be an exceedingly handsome and polite child. In reality, however, Riddle was cruel, arrogant, sadistic, manipulative, psychopathic, and megalomaniacal. Having achieved outstanding grades in every examination he took, left Hogwarts and went on to brief employment at Borgin and Burkes, before disappearing from public view completely.
Having embraced the Dark Arts he encountered in his travels, the former Tom Riddle, now known exclusively as Lord Voldemort, raised an enormous army of followers he recruited at school and afterward, as well as many dark creatures. This army, known as the Death Eaters, began a campaign of terror and violence never before seen in Britain. After hearing half of a prophecy referring to a single being with the power to destroy him, Voldemort set off to kill Harry Potter, to whom he believed the prophecy referred. After murdering Harry's parents, Lily and James, Voldemort turned his wand upon the boy, but due to Lily Potter's loving sacrifice, Voldemort's curse backfired on him, and his body was destroyed. Stripped of his physical form, Voldemort fled to a far-flung forest in Albania to await the day when he could regain a body and return to power. After thirteen years of waiting, that day would finally arrive, and with the use of Potter’s own blood, the Dark Lord rose again.
Although he initially lay low, Voldemort was soon forced into the open and began his bloody conquest of the wizarding world anew. After two years of constant warfare, Voldemort finally gained control of the Ministry of Magic and ruled relatively unopposed, save for a few pockets of resistance. Despite his hold over the country, Voldemort was still unsatisfied, as he had yet to remove the danger the prophecy presented. After learning of Potter's location, Voldemort set out to destroy the boy once and for all by launching his entire amassed force against Hogwarts. Upon arriving at the school, Voldemort was met by a full-scale rebellion of Hogwarts staff and students, along with the members of the Order of the Phoenix and the residents of Hogsmeade. As the battle progressed, the Death Eaters were driven into the Great Hall, where Voldemort engaged Harry Potter in a duel, and, because all of his Horcruxes were destroyed, Tom Marvolo Riddle was finally killed once and for all.
Tom Riddle's mutilated soul was then trapped in limbo for eternity, unable to move on or return as a ghost.
Relationships
Family:
Parents
Merope and Tom Sr. were the parents of Tom Riddle. His mother was a pure-blood wizard; however, his father was a Muggle rich man.
His father did not love Merope, so a woman made a love potion for him and became pregnant. However, when the effect was gone, Tom Sr. left her pregnant wife. Heartbroken, Merope sold the Slytherin locket, which she needed for a little money; however, it was not enough to raise her baby. She walked to the orphanage and managed to give birth to a baby boy, and named him "Tom Marvolo Riddle," but she died after that, and baby Tom grew up in an orphanage later on.
Years later, when Tom attended Hogwarts. He discovered his true form and parentage. He was disgusted when he arrived at his maternal family's house and found they were poor; however, he found out where his paternal family was. He killed his Muggle father and grandparents with a killing curse in 1943. It is known that Tom inherited his paternal family's fortune years after their deaths.
Paramour and Children
Bellatrix Lestrange
Bellatrix was among Voldemort's most loyal and trusted Death Eaters. She was entrusted with one of his Horcruxes, even though she was kept unaware of what it really was, and stored it in her Gringotts vault. She was fanatically loyal to her master, as, after his first defeat in 1981, she did not join many of her fellow Death Eaters in denying their association with him. Instead, she proudly declared that she remained his most loyal servant and that he would surely return. She considered Azkaban a place where she could wait for him, rather than a prison.
Her obsession extended to her being in love with and sexually attracted to him. On at least one occasion, during a meeting of his Death Eaters at Malfoy Manor, her face flushed and her eyes welled up with tears when he praised her.
He did seem to consider her of greater importance than most of his other servants. He may have had at least a superficial affection for her, as he would call her 'Bella' like other members of her family would. He seemed to be flattered by her unfaltering devotion as he praised her, along with her husband and brother-in-law, during his rebirth and promised that she would be rewarded; Snape later mentions that, despite this, he was more impressed by Snape's many years of useful information than Bellatrix's devotion, however. At the conclusion of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, he grabbed her and Apparated away with her; she was the sole Death Eater whom he bothered to help, though this may have been more due to her closer proximity rather than preferential treatment. When she was killed by Molly Weasley during the Battle of Hogwarts, he was furious, and intended to avenge her death when Harry intervened.
Although Bellatrix was married to one of Voldemort's other loyal Death Eaters, Rodolphus Lestrange, the union seemed to be nothing more than a business-like partnership. It was Voldemort to whom she spoke romantically. She was outraged by anyone showing him the slightest disrespect. When Harry Potter called him by his name in 1996, she became enraged, due to feeling that he was unworthy of speaking the name.
Unknown to nearly all, it would be revealed years later, after their death, that Bellatrix and Voldemort had in fact engaged in a sexual relationship, resulting in the birth of their daughter Delphini, who, years later, threatened to upset the timeline to be with her father. As Voldemort believed that he could cheat death through his Horcruxes, he probably did not feel a need to leave a child behind as an heir. He likely used the relationship with Bellatrix as a way to reward her for her undying loyalty to him and for her rather potent and notable successes as his most loyal lieutenant. However, a reward appears to be unlikely considering Bellatrix's failures at the Ministry.
Because of his egotistical and self-centred nature, he was likely to have been pleased by Bellatrix's obsessive love for him. Despite believing himself immortal, he may have considered the usefulness of Delphini via the idea of siring a lineage of lieutenants devoutly loyal to him through familial bonds while seeing them as extensions of his own power and authority, much like many kings and tyrants who procreated to expand and solidify their own power through blood ties. He may have also chosen Bellatrix as a mate due to her blood relations and thoroughly proven power as a witch, thus marking her as a potent genetic combination as well as an ideal fit for Voldemort, who revelled in his own status and power. A mate of such fortitude and strength would certainly appeal to Voldemort's pathological need to expand his fame and reputation. Voldemort also may have seen Delphini as a way of extending the power of the Slytherin bloodline beyond himself to further showcase his as well as his family's might and to further terrorise his enemies with the idea of another Dark Lord ruling alongside him. Voldemort may also have been intellectually enthused or curious at the idea of a student with similar powers and potential as himself, highlighting his vanity and ego even further, as he had had no living relatives whose powers he could compare his own to or to have learned from.
It is also possible that the conception of Delphini was unintentional, as very little is known about her background.
Delphini
It is unknown how Voldemort felt about his daughter Delphini since he died while she was still a baby. However, in the alternative timeline created via a mistake caused by Scorpius and Albus, Voldemort had apparently put Delphini (known as the Augurey) in charge of the Ministry: Dolores Umbridge (Headmistress of Hogwarts in this timeline) constantly informs the Augurey with dispatches about everything that is going on in Hogwarts; the Augurey gives instructions to Draco Malfoy (Head of Magical Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic in this timeline), e.g. how to deal with incidents involving wizards killing Muggles and bribing the Muggle Prime Minister with gold in such cases. Some students in Hogwarts openly quote the Augurey's motto that 'the future is ours to make', indicating that the Augurey was probably a famous and respected force as well as an inspiring example in the wizarding world of this timeline.
It is therefore likely that had Voldemort lived, he would have considered her an exceptionally faithful servant, something like his right-hand minion or deputy, and given her more power than he usually allowed his Death Eaters. It's notable that in this alternative timeline, Delphi has her own official symbol - the bird emblazoned in a fascistic manner - that is widely used in this world, just like the Dark Mark, the official symbol of Voldemort. In the office of the Head of Magical Law Enforcement in the Ministry, Augurey flags are flying down with this symbol, while there are flags with the Dark Mark in Hogwarts. None of the Death Eaters ever had their own individual symbols, and none of them ever had individual titles or aliases due to having just a collective name for their group, while Delphini was operating under her personal and unique alias 'the Augurey' in this timeline, instead of being known just as another top Death Eater.
It was not known why he wanted a child, as he did not feel a need for love and disliked the idea of becoming emotionally attached to anyone, and in addition, desired immortality. However, he likely realised that his daughter could become a talented and useful servant like Bellatrix was. It is also likely that he wished to preserve the Slytherin bloodline, on account of Voldemort being the last remaining heir of Slytherin. He kept her birth a secret, most likely because it may have placed her in danger, since Voldemort was considered the most powerful and dangerous Dark wizard of the time.
Delphini was curious about her parents and wanted to have the chance to know them. She went to great lengths to meet and save her father, even to the point of meddling with time to create a future where he lived, which shows she had some love for him. After she was defeated by her cousin Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley, she begged for death instead of having to face the fact that she failed her father.
It is rather ironic that Delphini held such strong affection and fascination for her father, a man who felt absolutely no love. The alternative timeline where Voldemort ruled shows that he would have considered Delphini (known as the Augurey in that universe) a faithful servant.
Outside family
Allies:
His gang
Riddle assembled this gang at Hogwarts. He claimed they were his friends and made it appear so in public. In truth, however, he had no emotional attachment to them, as he never once desired a friend, and he only manipulated them to do his bidding, which led to nasty incidents over the years, among them being their assisting Riddle to open the Chamber of Secrets. Through Riddle's intelligent and discreet methods, the gang was never connected to these incidents.
Presumably, although the gang disbanded after Riddle graduated from Hogwarts in 1945, it was a precursor to the Death Eater organisation. According to Riddle, he was already going by the name "Lord Voldemort" among the members of the gang. Indeed, at least some of the members became the earliest known Death Eaters.
Nagini
Voldemort had a special relationship with Nagini, his pet snake, who was also one of his Horcruxes. Nagini was the only living being that Voldemort seemed to genuinely care about; however, since Nagini was one of his Horcruxes, he might have cared about the part of his soul inside her rather than Nagini herself. However, Albus Dumbledore speculated that Voldemort cared more about Nagini than any other living creature and that his affection for her had nothing to do with the part of his soul he'd placed inside her; in fact Dumbledore thought that it was because of his feelings for the snake (and that she underlines Voldemort's ancestry with Salazar Slytherin) that he made Nagini into a Horcrux in the first place. Voldemort often stroked her head, wore her around his neck, and even used endearments and loving words when he spoke to her. During one meeting, he demanded the Death Eaters' silence immediately when he noticed that Nagini was becoming irritated by their jeers and yells.
Nagini never drew the wrath of her master, even when she failed to keep Harry Potter in Godric's Hollow, though Voldemort generally did not react well to failure. Nagini obeyed her master's every order, and the two were able to communicate with each other mentally. Albus Dumbledore noted that Voldemort had an unusual amount of control over her, even for a Parselmouth. He often used her to dispose of his enemies, such as Charity Burbage, and also threatened to feed Peter Pettigrew, Antonin Dolohov, and Thorfinn Rowle to her when they failed him.
In 1994, Peter Pettigrew milked the venom from Nagini's fangs, which he used in a potion that allowed Voldemort to regain a basic physical form. That same year, Voldemort made Nagini a Horcrux with the murder of Bertha Jorkins. Though he had often sent Nagini on personal missions, Voldemort kept her close to him after he discovered Harry was attempting to track down and destroy his Horcruxes. Nagini was beheaded by Neville Longbottom during the Battle of Hogwarts, and Voldemort felt rage and perhaps even grief at the loss of his snake. As Nagini was the last remaining Horcrux, her death allowed for Voldemort's ultimate defeat.
Barty Crouch Jr.
Another of Voldemort's most loyal and trusted servants was Barty Crouch Jr. Barty Crouch was imprisoned in Azkaban with Bellatrix Lestrange and two other Death Eaters. He escaped with the help of his father and dying mother, and the former kept him confined to the Crouch home under the Imperius Curse. When Voldemort learned, by way of torturing Bertha Jorkins, that there was a Death Eater at large who remained loyal to him, Voldemort and Peter Pettigrew overpowered the senior Barty Crouch and freed his son.
In contrast with his real father, Crouch saw Lord Voldemort as a father figure of sorts and, after being disowned by his own father and after his Azkaban year, was fanatically devoted to the Dark Lord. In fact, at that point, Crouch was willing to sacrifice and give absolutely everything to serve Voldemort. He also believed that if he finished off Harry Potter, he would be welcomed back, closer to Voldemort than a real son. In essence, Barty's loyalty is only matched by fellow Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange. However, Crouch's loyalty has led him to know many things about Lord Voldemort that even other loyal Death Eaters, such as Bellatrix, do not. Barty knows that Voldemort had a disappointing father, that he suffered the indignity of being named after that father, and that he had the great pleasure of killing said father to ensure the rise of the dark order. Crouch was also one of the few individuals in existence who would say Voldemort's name without fear, something even Bellatrix wouldn't do.
These three common threads helped to fuel Barty's loyalty. This also implies that Barty is aware of Voldemort's blood status as a half-blood, but doesn't care about it, in contradiction to the Death Eaters' belief in pure-blood supremacy. It could very well be that Voldemort told Barty these similarities between the two and used them as a way to get Barty to join him. Voldemort seems to have acknowledged Barty's worth, something his own father failed to do, referring to Barty as 'his most faithful servant'. However, for all of Voldemort's public claims, he never truly cared for Barty any more than as a useful servant who is as easily disposable as any other, as Voldemort never wanted a friend.
Barty Crouch Jnr helped Voldemort regain a physical body by capturing and imprisoning Alastor Moody, a retired Auror, who was about to accept Dumbledore's offer to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. Disguised as Moody, Barty Crouch entered Harry's name into the Goblet of Fire and helped ensure that he would win the Triwizard Tournament. By turning the Triwizard Cup into a Portkey, Crouch made sure Harry was transported to the Little Hangleton graveyard, where Peter Pettigrew used Harry's blood to concoct a potion that would allow Voldemort to be reborn. After Voldemort failed to kill Harry in the graveyard, Harry returned to Hogwarts, where Barty Crouch attempted to kill him personally, no longer pretending to be Alastor Moody. Harry was saved by Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, and Minerva McGonagall, and Barty Crouch was given the Dementor's Kiss. It's unknown how Voldemort reacted when he learned Crouch's fate, though he possibly felt some disappointment due to the latter's loyalty and usefulness.
Quirinus Quirrell
Quirinus encountered Lord Voldemort's disembodied soul fragment in the Black Forest of Albania during his world travels. Originally, naively trying to capture the Dark Lord's remains, Quirrell overestimated himself, thinking he could subjugate Voldemort and learn powerful magic from him. With promises of wealth, domination, and possibly immortality, Voldemort convinced Quirrell to become his faithful servant, and even to share his body. Quirrell followed orders with a tint of fear, and at times tried, feebly and futilely, to resist the possession.
On Voldemort's orders, Quirrell returned to London in 1991 and broke into Vault 713 at Gringotts Wizarding Bank to procure the Philosopher's Stone, only to find that it had been emptied earlier that day and the Stone had been transferred to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry by Rubeus Hagrid.
Quirrell took the position of Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts to track down the Stone. When he and Voldemort realised Harry Potter was starting at Hogwarts that same year, Quirrell attempted to kill Harry, but was prevented from doing so first by Severus Snape, then, unwittingly, by Hermione Granger.
Voldemort: "Seize him! SEIZE HIM!"
Quirrell: "Master, I cannot hold him -- my hands -- my hands!"
Voldemort: "Then kill him, fool, and be done!"
— Voldemort furiously demands that Quirrell kill Harry
Quirrell once again turned his attention to finding the Philosopher's Stone, and overcame several enchanted obstacles to travel through the Philosopher's Stone Chambers. Harry followed Quirrell through the Chambers, believing he was actually following Severus Snape, and eventually found Quirrell attempting to retrieve the Stone from the Mirror of Erised in the final chamber. Voldemort ordered Quirrell to use Harry to get the stone, and when the Stone appeared in Harry's pocket, Harry attempted to conceal the fact by lying about what he saw in the Mirror. Voldemort, seeing through Harry's lie, offered Harry power and glory, and even the possibility of seeing his parents again, in exchange for joining him and handing over the stone. Upon Harry's refusal, Voldemort ordered Quirrell to take the Stone by force, but found that Quirrell was unable to touch the boy without enduring excruciating pain as a result of the protection afforded to Harry by his mother's loving sacrifice. To escape the pain, Voldemort separated his soul from Quirrell's body and fled, leaving Quirrell to die; Dumbledore noted that this was an act of Voldemort's mercilessness on his subordinates as much as towards his enemies.
Three years after abandoning Quirrell to his demise, Voldemort expressed to his Death Eaters that he saw Quirrell as a foolish and gullible man whose only value was his position at Hogwarts.
Enemies:
Albus Dumbledore
"There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!"
— Voldemort expresses his anger towards Dumbledore
Riddle (then known as Voldemort) returned to Hogwarts years after graduating to request the Defence Against the Dark Arts position from Dumbledore, who had become the school's Headmaster. Suspecting that Voldemort's true intentions were far more sinister than he let on, Dumbledore refused him the position; the result of Dumbledore's refusal was not only that the position of DADA professor became "cursed", but it also affirmed Dumbledore's complete refusal to bend to Voldemort's will.
Voldemort: "But nothing I have seen in the world has supported your famous pronouncements that love is more powerful than my kind of magic, Dumbledore."
Albus Dumbledore: "Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places...,"
Voldemort: "Well, then, what better place to start my fresh research than here, at Hogwarts? Will you let me return? Will you let me share my knowledge with your students?"
— Voldemort to Albus Dumbledore requesting the Defence Against the Dark Arts post.
Voldemort despised Dumbledore, not only due to the latter's continued opposition, but also because Dumbledore's belief in the triumphant power of love was something that both confused and disgusted Voldemort. Dumbledore was thought to be the only person Voldemort ever feared, and one of the few people Voldemort was unable to intimidate, due to Dumbledore being the only wizard whose powers and skills could rival those of Voldemort's.
Dumbledore persisted in referring to him as 'Voldemort' to the public, while still addressing him as 'Tom' in conversation, a subtle but steadfast refusal to allow Voldemort to dictate the terms of their relationship, and a trait that would later be inherited by Harry Potter. Dumbledore led the efforts against Voldemort in the First Wizarding War; over many years, Dumbledore gathered crucial information about Voldemort's past and passed it on to Harry Potter, who would essentially take Dumbledore's place as leader of the opposition in the Second Wizarding War.
In 1996, Dumbledore and Voldemort met face to face in the Ministry of Magic during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, where Dumbledore addressed Voldemort as 'Tom' and said it was foolish of him to come to the Ministry. Voldemort initiated a fierce duel with Dumbledore, during which he tried to murder both Dumbledore and Harry, but was unsuccessful; Dumbledore managed to maintain the offensive in the duel, forcing Voldemort to possess Harry so Dumbledore would kill Harry out of a desire to kill him as well. This too was unsuccessful as Harry was able to exorcise the Dark Lord from his body and mind by focusing on his intense feelings of grief over Sirius' death. Cornelius Fudge arrived at the Ministry just in time to see Voldemort escape with Bellatrix Lestrange, and was finally forced to acknowledge the truth of Voldemort's return.
Following his failure to kill either Dumbledore or Harry at the Ministry, Voldemort assigned Draco Malfoy to carry out Dumbledore's assassination. Dumbledore became aware of this plot and addressed it by arranging his own death with Severus Snape. At the time of his death in 1997, Albus Dumbledore had fully equipped Harry Potter with the physical, mental, and emotional tools he needed to defeat Voldemort once and for all in 1998. Later on, during his search for the Elder Wand, Voldemort broke into Dumbledore's tomb.
Both Voldemort and Dumbledore shared similar traits; they both wielded extraordinary power that made them among the most powerful wizards in history, although Dumbledore had proven to be, perhaps, his only superior, and understood love, which Voldemort was completely unable to do; both were half-blood, although Voldemort knew nothing about Hogwarts until he was 11. Both were recognised as two of the best wizards to go to Hogwarts and were both Prefects and Head Boy. Both created and led their own causes (the Order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters). Both Dumbledore and Voldemort possessed the Elder Wand during their life, and both also held trust in Severus Snape.
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