Voldemort’s TRUE Origins | Harry Potter Film Theory

The one perfect connection they missed. Zeus was the greatest enemy of Sisyphus. And Harry bears the mark of a Lightning Bolt.

I'm surprised you didn't talk about Koshchei the Deathless, a Slavic folkloric figure who put his "death" into an object and hid it, preventing him from dying and was an antagonist in several tales

There is another mythological figure who also is very similar to Voldemort, Koschei the Deathless. He was a wizard in Slavic folklore who had hidden his soul, with 7(!) layers of protection

Hi! Spanish fan here. Just wanted to say that 'Señor Tenebroso' is quite a literal translation from 'Dark Lord'. 'Lord' is literally translated 'señor' (we have only one word for mister, sir and lord), and 'dark' is usually translated as 'oscuro' but 'tenebroso' is close enough and have more of a sinister resonance, since 'oscuro' is too common of a word to sound imposing to us, as Voldemort name should. Love the shout out to other translations. Great video!

Koshchei the Deathless was also an inspiration for Voldemort. For those who don’t know who that is he’s a sorcerer in Slavic folklore who pulled his soul and put it into a needle that into an egg, the egg into a bird (I’ve heard it was a swan, duck, or a goose) the bird into a hare, the hare into a chest, he buried the chest under a tree on an island that appears only once a year. My guy was not taking chances. Assuming you managed to go through all that and got the egg you would have to smash the egg on Koshchei’s head thus freeing his soul and causing all the tears he’s lived to come crashing down onto him and even then that might not have killed him because Koshchei has shown up in Slavic folklore after he has died

I wanna add one more for the "I am Lord Voldemort" switcharound! In the Swedish version his full name is Tom Gus Mervolo Dolder, which swaps around to form "Ego sum Lord Voldemort" Which is latin for "I am Lord Voldemort", which I thought was an interesting touch, latin is as close to a magic language as you get. But having the extra middle name Gus?? Hilarious! But also matching Dumbledores quirky middle name of Brian.

Video idea: What is the Blood Status of Squilb Children? Like, if a Pureblood and a squilb born to purebloods had a kid, would the child be considered a pure blood or half blood? Would the child of two squilbs be considered a muggleborn?

4:38 Jedusor is a very clever name actually. From a phonetic perspective it can be either the same as "J'ai du sort" which translates to I have a spell or to "Jeu du sort" which translates to a game of fate.

I'm spanish and I wish his name was Mr Spooky😂😂😂😂 And there is another quite significant name in that Edinburgh cemetery. William McGonagall, considered one of the worst British poets of all time

When you said Greek Mythology I thought you were gonna mention Oedipus Rex, Oedipus kills his father and his mother is named Merope

For the french translation, they kept Marvolo Gaunt's name, as his name became Elvis Marvolo Gaunt. Plus, Jedusor can refer to "jeux du sort" that you can translate as "game of fate", or in short, gamble. Translating best-sellers is a quite difficult job. 😅

4:14 Mr. Spooky lol Instead of "you know who" everyone in the wizarding world should have called him Mr. Spooky. All fear of Voldemort=gone

You talking about Voldermorts soul never leaving limbo makes me think how awkward it would be if Voldy ended being a ghost in Hogwarts.

I think the Voldemort and Sauron parallel is pretty significant too. The most obvious one is the Dark Lord title. Both extremely powerful beings trying to take over the world. Both also poured part of themselves indy physical objects, Voldemort with his horcruxes and Sauron with the One Ring. Both the horcruxes and the Ring also have to be destroyed in order to defeat them. Sauron and Voldemort were also both once defeated, having to abandon their bodies and reform later. Coincidentally, both fled to the east after abandoning their bodies as well. Voldemort to Albania and Sauron to Rhun. The mist/spirit thing they become is pretty similar too. Voldemort describes himself as being "less than the meanest ghost" and Sauron is described as "a mere spirit of malice that gnaws itself in the shadows." Voldemort's goal for the Wizarding World is pretty similar to Sauron's goal for Middle Earth, too. Sauron wants to take over, destroy/enslave all that aren't loyal to him, and rebuild the world in his vision with himself at the center. Voldemort wants to take over, destroy all who resist, enslave muggles and muggle borns, and rebuild the world in his vision with himself at the center. There's also the parallel between Dumbledore and Gandalf. They're both wizards and the appearance thing is obvious, but both were also initially reluctant to fight out of fear. Dumbledore delayed fighting Grindelwald for years, but eventually relented. When Gandalf (he was called Olorin at the time) was asked to sail east from Valinor to fight Sauron, he didn't want to go, saying he feared Sauron. Gandalf and Dumbledore both set the plan to destroy Sauron/Voldemort in place. Gandalf is the first to recognize the ring Bilbo found is the One Ring, and Dumbledore is the first to realizes Voldemort is using Horcruxes. You could go on for quite a while with this.

Hearing Ben talk about Greek mythology biefly in this video is likely the closest we'll ever get to them covering the Percy Jackson series 😢

Wasn't Sisyphus also given a choice in death? To continue to death, or just simply roll that boulder back up the hill to climb to his immortality? (The boulder chipping once it moved to no longer sit atop the hill, thus making this task impossible)

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0:22 so glad to see you guys going into the mythological roots of the Harry Potter series. You know what else would make me glad to see you deep dive into the myths? That’s right this is day 35 of the quest asking for you to cover the Percy Jackson series. One question regarding origins and big bads, is how did the bolt get stollen in the first place? and how did Cronos learn of Luke and contact him? The Percy Jackson series is full of even more Greek mythology stuff like the story you covered at 6:35

Minor correction: Voldemort's middle name in German is Vorlost. Which isn't a real name. But then, neither is Marvolo.

Hey, that was a great video! 2 thoughts: 1. In Hebrew, Voldemort's middle name is vanderolo(ואנדרולו)instead of marvolo, to create the word "ani"(אני) which means "I am" 2. Percy Jackson is a great series you might enjoy:)