Who Is Tom Riddle In Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince?

The newest sensation in the market, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, had created much anticipation in the readers before its release. With much of new thrills and inventions, it has almost wiped out the market off all other fictions. With the answers to many prequel mysteries, the Half Blood Prince, by far is the most interesting and entertaining of all the past books.

One of the main queries aroused in this book is about the presence of Tom Marvolo Riddle. Much of the emphasis has been laid on this character throughout the account. His past has been extensively depicted amidst all the adventures and suspense related to our protagonist, Harry Potter.

Tom Marvolo Riddle is the son of Merope Gaunt and Tom Riddle Sr. The father abandons the family long before his birth. The mother also dies after few months of her delivery and Tom grows up in an Orphanage instead. Truly talented but a curious little kid, soon enough finds himself as an enrolled student in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the school, his abilities and hidden talents clearly expose themselves to unravel a truly gifted child and a wizard. His magical skills and grasp on those expertises was far developed than any other wizard or witch of his age.

The only unpredictable twist in the story is the contradiction between his two exposures, firstly as being Tom Marvolo Riddle, and being Lord Voldemort as well. As his Muggle father abandoned him before he was even born, he had developed strong hatred and dislike for him that was slowly taking control of him. Eventually his madness grew to such an extent that he murdered his father and grandparents and fancied up a new name for himself, Voldemort.

Being confident of his powers and that he could achieve on their basis, he prospered his evil intentions to eliminate all filthy Mudbloods, sons, or daughters who possess magical abilities, but are not directly related to Witches or Wizards and are descendants of Muggles.

He gathered a large army of followers who were unanimous on his decision of blood purity and spreading his influence, to captivate the whole Wizard World and rule it just the way they want to. This is the main reason why he likes to be called as "Lord Voldemort". His close associates as well as all other fear his name so they have made up other titles to refer to him as Dark Lord or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

In the sixth part of the series, Voldemort declares a war onto Hogwarts and plots to eliminate Dumbledore, the major obstacle in his success, through young Draco Malfoy. The latter helps find a secret entrance that leads into Hogwarts without any enchantments or obstructions. Just at the edge of completing the plot, Draco becomes terrified to commit a cold-blooded murder of his headmaster and lowers down his wand. At that moment, Severus Snape, the double agent, appears and completes the task in lieu of Draco. After the plan has been completed, all the Death Eaters along with Snape and Draco escape the premises of Hogwarts castle.

The release date for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is 15th July 2009.


The character of Tom Marvolo Riddle or Voldemort has been specially highlighted in this sequel, as it had been planned in such a way by the author that it reveals all of his past happenings and the reasons for him having this vicious personality. This has added to the suspense for the readers as to what is going to happen next in the series.