The Today Network - 3/11/17( The November Issue)
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Hero Terrific : Riddle
Chapter 5
I really now detect the need to write for Tom Riddle.
I should.
He took the Dark path.
And transformed himself.
He no longer looked like a human.
Who is he?
In the second instalment, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Rowling introduces Tom Marvolo Riddle, a manifestation of a teenage Voldemort that resides inside a magical diary found by Ginny Weasley. In this book, Ginny is written as a shy girl with a crush on Harry.
A troubled young wizard with an affinity for the Dark Arts and manipulation.
Tom Riddle fact file
FULL NAME
Tom Marvolo Riddle
BIRTHDAY
31 December 1926( Hmmm... wish he was born the next day...;)
WAND
Thirteen and a half inches, yew, Phoenix feather
HOUSE
Slytherin
PARENTS
Tom Riddle Sr (Muggle) and Merope Gaunt (witch)
SKILLS
Outstanding manipulation, Parseltongue
He became a dark wizard when he was in Slytherin, and since he was named after his father muggle he decide to change his name using an anagram "Tom Marvolo Riddle" -> "I am Lord Voldemort"
The transformation into his monstrous state is believed to have been the result of creating his Horcruxes and becoming less human as he continued to divide his soul. His nose shape is due to his relationship with snakes
om Riddle has always had darker tendencies. Ever since he discovered that he had otherworldly abilities, he had been manipulating and terrorizing the children at his orphanage. When Dumbledore visited him at his orphanage with the offer to join Hogwarts, he said “I knew I was different,” he whispered to his own quivering fingers. “I knew I was special. Always, I knew there was something.”
And later Dumbledore told Harry that "In fact, his ability to speak to serpents did not make me nearly as uneasy as his obvious instincts for cruelty, secrecy, and domination."
So it really was not a matter of Tom Riddle having to become Lord Voldemort. It was more symbolic of his intentions and of the belief he had in himself that he was greater. He had always been that cruel.
As to the other part of your question, his appearance can to attributed to the repeated creation of Horcruxes and his propensity for snakes, as others have pointed out! Tom Marvolo Riddle was born on 31 December, 1926 at Wool's Orphanage in London. His pure-blood mother, Merope Gaunt staggered to the door of the orphanage, had Tom born in there, and died shortly after his birth. Tom Riddle grew up in a dingy orphanage, completely unaware of his wizarding heritage. Since the Muggle orphanage staff did not know anything about his mother, they did not know about his magical background. Instead, they believed that Merope was a circus worker, as Mrs Cole told Albus Dumbledore shortly before his first meeting with Tom. It is unknown whether or not the orphanage staff relayed this to Tom before his first encounter with Dumbledore.
Despite his ignorance of his mother's true background, Tom did have some grasp on his abilities beyond that of normal magical children of his same age, however, and an unusually high degree of control over them. Tom could move objects with his mind and cause them to travel floating wherever he wished, manipulate animals and creatures as he wished, speak Parseltongue, and use his power to inflict harm on other orphans. After getting into a fight with fellow orphan Billy Stubbs, he used his powers to hang the boy's rabbit from the rafters. On one occasion, he took two orphans, Dennis Bishop and Amy Benson, into a cave, where he performed an act so horrifying that the two orphans were traumatised into silence. Young Tom Riddle also stole from other orphans and hid their things in his cupboard like trophies. Albus Dumbledore later stopped him from this hobby. Dumbledore ordered Tom to return the stolen items to their rightful owners and apologise for his sins, and that he had the means to determine whether or not Tom fulfilled Dumbledore's orders. Dumbledore also strictly warned Riddle to stop his misbehaviour as Hogwarts had an honour code whereupon lying, cheating and stealing were not tolerated. After graduating, Tom immediately approached Armando Dippet and asked him for a chance to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, and to remain at Hogwarts, for reasons that he did not confide with the then-headmaster — Hogwarts being his true home at heart, using the influential position as a teacher to recruit students into his future army, and to continue to penetrate the castle's magical secrets. Dippet rejected this offer, deeming the boy too young, but invited Tom to reapply in a few years, if he was still interested in the post, something that Dumbledore heavily advised against.
Shortly before leaving Hogwarts, however, Tom charmed Helena Ravenclaw, the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw and the ghost of Ravenclaw House more commonly known as the Grey Lady, into telling him the location of her mother's diadem, which she revealed as a hollow tree deep within a far-flung forest in Albania. He presumably travelled there at her instruction, murdering an Albanian peasant along the way before retrieving the diadem, which he later preserved a third part of his soul within to make his third Horcrux.
Upon his return to Britain, he was offered several positions in the Ministry of Magic, but ended up working at Borgin and Burkes for Caractacus Burke, to the disappointment and surprise of many. He set to persuading witches and wizards to part with their valuable magical heirlooms — a job at which he was very good.
I liked his funny-nosy face but not him really...
Belle Evans
WRITER OF THE HERO TERRIFIC
I should.
He took the Dark path.
And transformed himself.
He no longer looked like a human.
Who is he?
In the second instalment, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Rowling introduces Tom Marvolo Riddle, a manifestation of a teenage Voldemort that resides inside a magical diary found by Ginny Weasley. In this book, Ginny is written as a shy girl with a crush on Harry.
A troubled young wizard with an affinity for the Dark Arts and manipulation.
Tom Riddle fact file
FULL NAME
Tom Marvolo Riddle
BIRTHDAY
31 December 1926( Hmmm... wish he was born the next day...;)
WAND
Thirteen and a half inches, yew, Phoenix feather
HOUSE
Slytherin
PARENTS
Tom Riddle Sr (Muggle) and Merope Gaunt (witch)
SKILLS
Outstanding manipulation, Parseltongue
He became a dark wizard when he was in Slytherin, and since he was named after his father muggle he decide to change his name using an anagram "Tom Marvolo Riddle" -> "I am Lord Voldemort"
The transformation into his monstrous state is believed to have been the result of creating his Horcruxes and becoming less human as he continued to divide his soul. His nose shape is due to his relationship with snakes
om Riddle has always had darker tendencies. Ever since he discovered that he had otherworldly abilities, he had been manipulating and terrorizing the children at his orphanage. When Dumbledore visited him at his orphanage with the offer to join Hogwarts, he said “I knew I was different,” he whispered to his own quivering fingers. “I knew I was special. Always, I knew there was something.”
And later Dumbledore told Harry that "In fact, his ability to speak to serpents did not make me nearly as uneasy as his obvious instincts for cruelty, secrecy, and domination."
So it really was not a matter of Tom Riddle having to become Lord Voldemort. It was more symbolic of his intentions and of the belief he had in himself that he was greater. He had always been that cruel.
As to the other part of your question, his appearance can to attributed to the repeated creation of Horcruxes and his propensity for snakes, as others have pointed out! Tom Marvolo Riddle was born on 31 December, 1926 at Wool's Orphanage in London. His pure-blood mother, Merope Gaunt staggered to the door of the orphanage, had Tom born in there, and died shortly after his birth. Tom Riddle grew up in a dingy orphanage, completely unaware of his wizarding heritage. Since the Muggle orphanage staff did not know anything about his mother, they did not know about his magical background. Instead, they believed that Merope was a circus worker, as Mrs Cole told Albus Dumbledore shortly before his first meeting with Tom. It is unknown whether or not the orphanage staff relayed this to Tom before his first encounter with Dumbledore.
Despite his ignorance of his mother's true background, Tom did have some grasp on his abilities beyond that of normal magical children of his same age, however, and an unusually high degree of control over them. Tom could move objects with his mind and cause them to travel floating wherever he wished, manipulate animals and creatures as he wished, speak Parseltongue, and use his power to inflict harm on other orphans. After getting into a fight with fellow orphan Billy Stubbs, he used his powers to hang the boy's rabbit from the rafters. On one occasion, he took two orphans, Dennis Bishop and Amy Benson, into a cave, where he performed an act so horrifying that the two orphans were traumatised into silence. Young Tom Riddle also stole from other orphans and hid their things in his cupboard like trophies. Albus Dumbledore later stopped him from this hobby. Dumbledore ordered Tom to return the stolen items to their rightful owners and apologise for his sins, and that he had the means to determine whether or not Tom fulfilled Dumbledore's orders. Dumbledore also strictly warned Riddle to stop his misbehaviour as Hogwarts had an honour code whereupon lying, cheating and stealing were not tolerated. After graduating, Tom immediately approached Armando Dippet and asked him for a chance to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, and to remain at Hogwarts, for reasons that he did not confide with the then-headmaster — Hogwarts being his true home at heart, using the influential position as a teacher to recruit students into his future army, and to continue to penetrate the castle's magical secrets. Dippet rejected this offer, deeming the boy too young, but invited Tom to reapply in a few years, if he was still interested in the post, something that Dumbledore heavily advised against.
Shortly before leaving Hogwarts, however, Tom charmed Helena Ravenclaw, the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw and the ghost of Ravenclaw House more commonly known as the Grey Lady, into telling him the location of her mother's diadem, which she revealed as a hollow tree deep within a far-flung forest in Albania. He presumably travelled there at her instruction, murdering an Albanian peasant along the way before retrieving the diadem, which he later preserved a third part of his soul within to make his third Horcrux.
Upon his return to Britain, he was offered several positions in the Ministry of Magic, but ended up working at Borgin and Burkes for Caractacus Burke, to the disappointment and surprise of many. He set to persuading witches and wizards to part with their valuable magical heirlooms — a job at which he was very good.
I liked his funny-nosy face but not him really...
Belle Evans
WRITER OF THE HERO TERRIFIC
