2007-11-05 14:37:41 · 11 answers · asked by Mrs ACO 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
i want to know why.......why he tried to kill harry, why he wanted his parents dead and why he became evil
2007-11-05 14:45:14 · update #1
He was power hungry, all he wanted was power using any means to get it. He was also extremely afraid of death and wanted to live forever, again no matter what the consequences or cost. He hated his mother for dying when he was born and leaving him in that orphanage, he thought she was weak because she died. He hated muggles because of the muggle father who wanted nothing to do with him and wouldn't claim him. After hearing part of the prophecy he wanted to get rid of Harry because he viewed him as a threat, he killed his parents to get to him and because they were against him. "There is no good and evil, only power and those too weak to seek it." is how Voldemort saw it.
2007-11-05 15:09:55 · answer #1 · answered by hkhappybunny 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tom Riddle was blinded by power. He wants to be immortal to the extent that he'll kill anyone just to stay immortal. So that's when Trelawney told a prophecy to Dumbledore that someday, one person would kill him and that is Harry Potter. That's the reason why Tom Riddle, Voldemort rather, was desperate to kill him. But because of love, which was told in the prophecy, harry defeated him. :p
2007-11-06 04:51:16 · answer #2 · answered by 2smiley4 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tom Riddle never knew love; actually he didn't believe in love; how could he? His dad deserted him, his mom died in an hour after he was born. Tom also didn't have one remorseful bone in his entire body. Yet, these reasons are just excuses we all make for people like him; the real reason is that Tom split his soul in to seven parts; created horcruxes if you will. I'll probably mess up the order; they consisted of (a) his diary, (b)the ring of Gaunt,(c) the Slytherin Locket, (d)Helga Hufflepuff's cup,(e) the Ravenclaw Diadem (f) Nagini and (g) Harry. I didn't list the last because the very last bit was in him himself. In order to create split your soul is to commit the act of murder; after killing all those people in addition to feeling no remorse on top of never receiving love the only path is evilness. The best for last his motive was to become the most powerful wizard there ever was; thus he fashioned himself a new name Lord Voldemort. The Lord of Death or the one who conquers death.
2007-11-06 00:56:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tom Riddle's mother's family, the Guants, were proud people, but mentally unstable due to a tendency to marry only close relatives. Their arrogance and bullying nature seemed to be genetic; poor baby Thomas seemed to have inherited their quick temper and tendency to bully people.
Add to that, growing up unloved and unwanted in an orphanage, and you have a guaranteed recipe for a dysfunctional mind. Tom Riddle never had any clue what love really was: he had never experienced it.
He felt he had been abandoned by his birth father (who quite honestly may have never known his son existed), and that really pi$$ed him off. When he finally found his last remaining relative on his mother's side, he got a twisted version of his parent's divorce. He killed his biological father (and his father's second wife and teenage son) as an act of revenge for abandoning him and his mother into a life of poverty and death.
Tom Riddle spent the rest of his magical life trying to conquer death. Since "good" wizards followed too many "rules" to suit him, he decided to step outside those boundries. Any means possible to achieve his goal (becoming Master of Death) became acceptable. His lust for power and immortality led him to the Dark Side (sorry George Lucas!).
2007-11-05 23:11:38 · answer #4 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter and Tom Riddle are similar in talents, in being orphans, in finding their own ways at Hogwarts, but Harry chooses to be good, and Riddle chooses to be evil. It is, as Dumbledore points out, as simply as choosing. At the end of the seventh book, with Harry facing death without flinching, we find Voltemort, his seven-times delayed death now eminent, unwilling to consider remorse or repentence.
That is the theme of the Potter books: we choose who we are, and we become what we choose.
2007-11-05 22:47:38 · answer #5 · answered by anobium625 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well Tom Riddle was acctualy Voltemort, and so he wanted to kill Harry, so he had to use the Weesley girl's soul to get to Harry
2007-11-05 22:43:57 · answer #6 · answered by ♥♥♥♥ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
he turned evil cuz he could not stand his father being a muggle and his mom being a wizard dying so he just got haggard and wanted to be the most powerful wizard
2007-11-05 22:45:27 · answer #7 · answered by thegreekshagg14 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He wanted what he couldn't get by working within the framework of the life he was born into, so he decided to build his own world where he was king.
2007-11-05 22:45:10 · answer #8 · answered by Cary Cyd 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Greed and the need to be more powerful and well-known than any other wizard.
2007-11-05 22:45:26 · answer #9 · answered by Ravenclaw Alumni 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he resented his muggle father who left him at birth. it made him hate muggles... genetically his family was very power hungry so his ambition and hate of muggles eventually made him evil... so basically it all started because he resented his father
2007-11-05 22:46:46 · answer #10 · answered by avalon552 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋