Harry Potter: Voldemort has a French name!

From the very first part of the magical saga to the final confrontation with Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort casts a shadow over JK Rowling’s imagined wizarding community. But where exactly does the evil black magician’s name come from, which most of his opponents don’t even dare to pronounce?

Born Tom Elvis the Jedi (Tom Marvolo Riddle in the original version) and calling himself You-Know-Who or He-Whose-We-Must-Not-Say-Name, he came up with a defiant pseudonym. To put it mildly. No doubt to scare his enemies and maybe even a kind of riddle for them (after all, in English the word “riddle” means “riddle”).

Indeed, as we learn Official Wizarding World websiteJK. Rowling herself came up with the name Voldemort, which has a French sound and origin. If we divide it into three different words and pronounce it “vol-de-mort”, we can thus find its alternative tone, as well as a new meaning, which, moreover, takes on its full meaning in the last parts. Saga.

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, then Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (parts 1 and 2), we really learn that by splitting his soul into 7 different parts (Horcruxes), the cunning wizard was doing his best to create himself. immortal. “Stealing your own death,” in a way.

But in an even more literal sense, Voldemort also stole death because he ended up stealing the Elder Wand that originally belonged to him. If J.K. Rowling never really explained the meaning of this name, everything suggests that we can decipher it by saying it in French.

But Voldemort is not the only character in the saga whose name has a hidden meaning. For example, in Latin “albus” (Dumbledore’s first name) means “silvery white”, which gives rise to the color of his long beard. As for Minerva McGonagall, she owes her name to the Roman goddess of wisdom and lofty thinking.

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