Lord Voldemort
From Fanlore
| Name: | Tom Marvolo Riddle a.k.a. Lord Voldemort | |
| Occupation: | Dark Lord | |
| Title/Rank: | Slytherin House | |
| Location: | Britain, Albania | |
| Status: | half-blood; deceased | |
| Relationships: | none | |
| Fandom: | Harry Potter | |
| Other: | ||
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | ||
| ||
Lord Voldemort, born Tom Marvolo Riddle, is the chief villain of the Harry Potter series.
In Fanfiction
Voldemort, despite showing no indication of sexual and/or romantic interest in anyone in canon, is often shipped with his arch enemy Harry Potter. The fan fiction about him either explores his youth at Hogwarts and the years before he became the Dark Lord or events during the war. He is also a common character in AU stories in which the dark side has won the war.
Since he is a villain, the stories about him often contain darker themes than those about the more sympathetic characters. Examples of these include torture, death, slavery and rape.
Ships
- Harry/Voldemort (or Harry/Tom)
- Tom/Ginny (usually diary!Tom)
- Voldemort/Bellatrix (or Bellatrix/Voldemort, canonically unrequited)
- Voldemort/Quirrell (popularized by A Very Potter Musical)
- Tom/Minerva
- Voldemort/Hermione
- Voldemort/Cedric
Example Fanworks
- Reclamation by Sam Vimes -- AU in which Riddle never became Voldemort
- The Semblance of Peace by Maeglinyedi -- Voldemort lives on in Harry's body, a common trope
External Links
- Dystopia (defunct), a Voldemort-centric fanfiction archive
- The Basilisk Cafe (defunct), a Tom Riddle/Slytherin fansite and archive
- _marvolo_, a Riddle-centric LiveJournal community
- darklord_news, a newsletter community
- team_darklord, a newsletter community (unofficial successor to above)
- riddle_gifts, a fest/exchange community
- tomriddle100, a drabble community
