Tom Riddle

The Second Magical War:
Beginning in 1995, Voldemort began to subjugate wizards and coerce various dark creatures into collaborating. But first, he decided to uncover the true meaning of the prophecy. To do this, he wanted to know it in its entirety, suspecting he had missed something crucial. However, all attempts to retrieve the prophecy's recording from the Department of Mysteries were unsuccessful: only the one mentioned in the prophecy could retrieve it from the archives. That meant either the Dark Lord himself or Harry Potter. Voldemort then used his connection with the boy to send him false visions, which he used to lure Harry to the Department of Mysteries, where a full-blown battle began for the desired recording of the prophecy. But the battle again ended in failure for Voldemort: the prophecy shattered in the heat of battle, and the Death Eaters were arrested. Moreover, Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge saw Voldemort with his own eyes and finally believed in his return, something he had denied for the entire past year.

Future appearance:
In the future, the reborn Voldemort has very pale skin, a chalk-white, skull-like face, snake-like nostrils, red eyes with vertical pupils, a tall, skeletal body, and long, thin arms with unnaturally long fingers.

Family and Future: From the first day of his life, little Tom Riddle was left without the care of his parents or loved ones. Clearly, he found no friends to whom he felt affection in the orphanage. This had a significant impact on the young wizard's future life. Deprived of parental care and affection, the boy grew up cruel and cold, incapable of strong feelings—love, friendship, or compassion. And so, at the age of sixteen, Tom coldly murdered his only living relatives—his father, grandparents. His father was Tom Riddle Senior, his grandfather was Thomas Riddle, and his grandmother was Mary Riddle.

Future revival:
During 1993-1994, Voldemort continued to hide in the forests of Albania. But in 1994, his cowardly servant Peter Pettigrew caught up with him and began assisting him in preparing for the Ritual of Resurrection. Voldemort, plotting yet another maniacal plan, included his sworn enemy—the then-grown-up Harry Potter—in it. To this end, he sent his faithful servant, Barty Crouch Jr., to Hogwarts, while he himself, having taken over his father's house in Little Hangleton (the same father he killed at the age of 16), began to gain strength. With the help of the snake Nagini[19] and various potions prepared for him by Pettigrew, he strengthened the frail body in which he was dragging out his miserable existence at that time. At the same time, he created the final Horcrux, placing a portion of his soul within the snake Nagini. Voldemort's plan was for Barty Crouch Jr. to ensure Harry Potter's participation and victory in the Triwizard Tournament, transform the Tournament Cup into a portal, and deliver the boy to the Dark Lord. The ritual of rebirth required brewing a potion containing the blood of an enemy, the bone of a father, and the flesh of a servant. The enemy from whom the Dark Lord sought the blood was to be Harry Potter. On June 24, 1995, the day of the third and final tournament of the Triwizard Tournament, the Dark Lord combined all three elements and was finally reborn, regaining a body. All the magical power he had lost had returned to him, and he could now overcome the Sacrifice Curse that had previously protected Harry. But his joy was marred by the fact that Potter had once again eluded him, taking advantage of yet another magical feature that the Dark Lord had overlooked.

In the future after school:
After graduating from Hogwarts in the early summer of 1945, Tom Riddle applied for a teaching position at the school. But Headmaster Dippet, on the advice of Albus Dumbledore, rejected his application, citing Tom's youth as a professor. To everyone's surprise, Riddle then took a job at Borgin and Burkes. His duties included meeting with potential customers and negotiating the purchase and sale of various artifacts. Tom would often visit a wizard's home to persuade him to sell a particular item to Borgin and Burkes at a reasonable price. This seemingly low-status job gave Mr. Riddle both a wide network of contacts and access to a wide variety of wizarding world rarities, even if these items were never sold or publicly displayed. Able to win anyone's favor when necessary, Voldemort always got what he wanted. Fascinated by the idea of ​​Horcruxes, he sought out artifacts associated with the founders of Hogwarts, and found two of them in the possession of a client of Borgin and Burkes: Slytherin's Locket and Hufflepuff's Cup. Having gained the trust of the owner of these items, he murdered her, blamed her house-elf, and stole the Locket and Cup.

Beginning of active activity:
Shortly after the murder and theft, Voldemort resigned from Borgin and Burkes and embarked on a journey, encountering Dark wizards and intensively studying the Dark Arts. He gathered his old followers, who began calling themselves Death Eaters.[17] Voldemort also continued to create Horcruxes. In secret, he created five Horcruxes, thus tearing and crippling his soul to such an extent that it even affected his appearance. Upon returning from his travels, estimated to have occurred in the winter of 1968-69, he approached Dumbledore, by then headmaster, at Hogwarts, asking for a teaching position.

He was described as a very attractive young man with an aristocratic bearing, fine features, sunken cheeks, dark eyes, and black hair. Albus Dumbledore believes that such significant changes in his appearance were due to Tom's own actions and deeds.

Future appearance: The reborn Voldemort has very pale skin, a chalk-white and skull-like face, snake-like nostrils, red eyes with vertical pupils, a tall skeletal body, and long, thin arms with unnaturally long fingers.

On September 1, 1938, Tom was sorted into Slytherin. He soon learned that the legendary founder of this house, like Tom himself, could speak to snakes. This fueled his desire to discover his origins. Believing that his mother, being a witch, would never have died so young, even without any illness, he believed his father was a wizard. At school, Tom was always polite and reserved with everyone. The teachers noted this handsome orphan's genuine thirst for knowledge. He was the best student not only in his house, but in the entire school. Gradually, a rather motley crowd of like-minded people of all ages and personalities began to gather around him. Various events, not so good, not so good, and downright terrible (like the death of Ravenclaw Myrtle Warren), began to occur at the school. But it was impossible to reliably connect these incidents with Tom Riddle's company: Lord Voldemort (by then known to his own people by that name) kept his people under strict control, not allowing them to publicly violate school rules even the slightest bit, or to arouse even the slightest suspicion. Many of these students later became Death Eaters. Riddle was deeply interested in the Dark Arts. His knowledge advanced so far that by his fifth year, he not only learned about Horcruxes—the darkest magic in the world—but also created one for himself. In his sixth year, he learned from Professor Slughorn some details about the possibility of creating multiple Horcruxes, but Tom gained his initial knowledge from an ancient book, Secrets of the Darkest Arts, kept in the restricted section of the Hogwarts library. Later, Albus Dumbledore, upon assuming the post of headmaster, removed it from the library and hid it in his office: it was not fitting for students who were not spiritually mature to learn such things. Mind you, the boy was only sixteen, yet he was capable of such powerful magic. Indeed, Professor Slughorn was right in inviting Riddle to his "Slug Club": this wizard's potential was truly colossal.