Why is tom riddles name voldemort

And 'Elvis'? The translators kept his last name similar to the English version, just replacing the i with a y. The more recent Italian translation also retained the first and last name, but changed his middle name. Not very scary. Slovenian Mrlakenstein - Mark Neelstin In Slovenian the translation just used his name for the anagram, which makes more sense to me anyway.

This would have prevented a lot of translation headaches. Danish Jeg er Voldemort - Romeo G. Detlev, Jr. As with the Icelandic version, the Danish translation left out part of his name. Wherefore art thou, Romeo? This caused some confusion with the character Thorfinn Rowle, who first appears in 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', but who is no relation of Voldemort. Most of you probably know. I was curious so I did some research online. The reason why Tom Riddle changed his name to Voldemort was because he had a Muggle father.

He was human and he despised him for two reasons: 1 His father was a Muggle. The main reasons were he wanted to distance himself from the Muggle part of his family, as well as have a name that witches and wizards would fear to speak of. Also in French, Voldemort can mean two things "flight of death" and also "theft of death". Voldemort was known to be scared of death and if he were to have Boggart, it would be this.

I believe Riddle Tom chose the name Voldemort because it was the perfect name. From the begining, if you follow Voldemort's timeline, you will find that he liked to entice fear in people. He liked working alone and, most importantly, he hated his father as far as hatred could go.

Even though he wanted a different name, he wanted to craft it out with what he was given. That is one quality that he had: resourcefulness. He liked keeping souveneirs. Names were no exception. That's why he chose the name "Voldemort". It was full of power, it radiated immense strength, and it still had a link to his origins.

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Viewed 64k times. Improve this question. Mithical Crazy Frog Crazy Frog k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Slytherincess Slytherincess k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. That was my interpretation as well.