HE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED1
This paper aims to discuss how the physical, cognitive and social development led Tom
Riddle into becoming the wizarding world’s most feared villain, Lord Voldemort. The physical,
cognitive and social development of an individual plays a vital role in the development of the
person in an all-round way. The individual must receive proper care and nourishment from his
childhood so that he develops into a fully functioning, normal healthy being. Therefore, this
paper discusses how these factors and the events that occurred in the life of Tom Riddle paved
his way into the world of villainy.
Tom Marvolo Riddle was recognised as one of the darkest and most powerful wizards in
his time (Rowling, 2013). The only wizard that was superior to him was the headmaster of
Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore. Tom was the only child of Tom and Merope Riddle via the
forceful use of love potion. Tom was raised in a Muggle or non-wizarding orphanage called
Wool’s orphanage after his father abandoned the family when the influence of the love potion
was lifted. His mother had died just moments after giving birth to him. His mother named him
after his father and his maternal grandfather, Marvolo Gaunt. When he got to know that he was
wizard through Albus Dumbledore, he started taking pride in his being a wizard and looked
down upon the non-magical people (Gupta, Hamdani & Tripathi, 2019). He attended the
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the year 1938 and was sorted into the Slytherin
House. He involved himself into many dark activities like opening the Chamber of Secrets, using
the monstrous snake Basilisk to attack the students of the school, purchasing mysterious artefacts
from the shop Borgin and Burkes, being a Parseltongue that is the ability to speak to snakes and
then gaining immortality via splitting his soul into seven Horcruxes. He made his first Horcrux at
the age of sixteen (Rowling, 2013).

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