Raised in an orphanage, Tom began attending Hogwarts in 1938, where he was sorted into Slytherin and presumed to be Muggle-born.
We also meet Tom Riddle, who is, as it turns out, the heir of Slytherin. Present only in spirit, he has all the same been controlling Ginny, and having her act as Slytherin's heir. We also meet the Monster of the Chamber, a basilisk.
In fact, at the beginning of the series, barely anyone but Dumbledore and Hagrid knew that Voldemort was the charming, successful Tom Marvolo Riddle.
he was Sorted into Slytherin because he was ambitious, leaning towards the Dark Arts, his mother was one, AND he had an anti-Muggle bias, same as Salazar Slytherin himself.
And this is why Hermione does not fit into Ravenclaw, since she lacks their creativity of thought. When you also add in her fearlessness and her strong convictions about right and wrong, which are inherently Gryffindor traits, then there was even less of a chance she'd end up wearing blue and bronze.
Not surprisingly, the one person who always seemed to see through the act was Dumbledore. Dumbledore had seen the true Tom Riddle when they first met: the boy who tortured, stole, and completely abused his powers. As a result, Dumbledore never fully trusted him, and Tom never even tried to win Dumbledore's trust.
As an unqualified wizard who didn't finish his education, Hagrid was not technically allowed to perform magic.
She knew. After all, Riddle had admitted it in front of several followers in GoF. While she seems upset when Harry throws it in her face in OOtP, i think that it's merely because Harry uses it to call Voldemort out on his bigotry rather than her being ignorant or in denial of her master being half-blood.
Her real parents were Daneel and Dean Novak, Pureblooded wizards. Turns out Daneel was Tom Riddles younger sister, Daneel Riddle. Of course, the Riddles were related to Salzar Slytherin himself, and this made Hermione the living heir of Slytherin.
The Heir of Slytherin turns out to be Ginny Weasley, who is being controlled via a magical diary that once belonged to Tom Riddle, AKA Voldemort.
Andrea Deanisi as Wiglaf Sigurdsson, the Heir of Rowena Ravenclaw.
If there's anything a Slytherin loves, it's a loyal follower, and a Hufflepuff embodies this to a tee. Want a partner you can rely on, especially if things turn dark? Only a Hufflepuff will endeavour to see the good through the bad, no matter what.
Godrick Gryffindor, one of the four founders of Hogwarts, and the owner of the legendary Sword of Gryffindor, was absolutely more powerful than Dumbledore— and it's a good thing he was, too, because Dumbledore wasn't around in Hogwarts' early days to keep Godrick's fellow founder Salazar Slytherin in check.
Slytherins and Ravenclaws - Slytherins hate rules and Ravenclaws are ingenious. Together they can take over the world or create amazing spells. Or they can hate eachother with a fury and rage.
Fleamont Potter died of dragon pox and his fortune was left to his son, James Potter. From there, the family fortune was bequeathed to Harry, after James and Lily Potter were killed.
Because Hagrid is a crossbreed of a human and giant (half-giant), much like Lupin is a crossbreed of a human and a magical wolf (a werewolf). Some (not all) pureblood Slytherins in the books hated such individuals because in their eyes, they were “polluting” the wizarding world.
Considered by many the first wizard ever, Merlin is both a Harry Pottercharacter, albeit one the fans didn't get to see in the series, and the first mythological sorcerer of all time.
He finds out for sure immediately after Nagini's attack on Arthur Weasley. This night is significant in many ways. While Harry sleeps, he enters Nagini's mind.
Tom Riddle becomes so disfigured primarily because of his Horcruxes. Before his enterprising Dark Arts work, nobody had ever made more than one Horcrux.
He lost his nose as a sacrifice for immortality, such an immoral deed of tearing ones' souls into pieces made him a little less human and so he lost his human features and developed reptilian features (like snakes who have slits in place of an actual nose).
Slytherin house has some trouble with shaking its murky reputation – and it's all thanks to a certain few witches and wizards like Lucius Malfoy. Today we look at the reasons why he embodied all the worst Slytherin traits and gave his house a bad name… Lucius Malfoy was an odious character.
Hufflepuff has produced the least amount of Dark wizards
'They didn't want to show off, they weren't being reckless, that's the essence of Hufflepuff. ' In fact, the most evil deed we can remember a Hufflepuff ever doing was Ernie Macmillan wearing a 'Potter Stinks' badge.
Peter Pettigrew, (a.k.a. Wormtail), is the only Death Eater known to have been in a House other than Slytherin (Gryffindor) while at Hogwarts.