The runes enabled him to cast most common and dark spells without a wand and without the decrease in strength wandless magic was prone to suffer from.

The Gaunts, including Voldemort, are distantly related to Harry because they are descendants of the Peverell brothers. Almost involuntarily, the teen rocked forward a little in an attempt to get some friction against his erect manhood.Lamenting his faults, a miserably despondent Dumbledore wondered whether they'd ever see the boy again.

Blinking, Harry tried to push past the haze in his head and think of a way to do so, absently licking his lips. Rowling also stated that Voldemort's conception by influence of Amortentia—a love potion administered by his mother, a witch named Merope Gaunt, to the Muggle Tom Riddle—is related to his inability to understand love; it is "a symbolic way of showing that he came from a loveless union—but of course, everything would have changed if Merope had survived and raised him herself and loved him. Entering the bedroom he had the elves prepare in advance, he turned and waited for the boy to catch up. Putting it on he admired it for a short moment before racing to his trunk, throwing it open without a care about noise. After living in an orphanage, young Riddle met Dumbledore, who told him he was a wizard and arranged for him to attend Hogwarts.s hands rested upon his face, crimson eyes studying him closely in a way that made Harry's insides squirm. Though it is initially implied that the prophecy refers to Sirius Black, the book's ostensible antagonist, the servant is eventually revealed to be Peter Pettigrew, who, for the 12 years since Voldemort's fall, has been disguised as Ron's pet rat, Scabbers.

With a self-satisfied smile Voldemort gently petted the boy whose passage was still clenching around him like a vice. The only thing she had left was the heavy gold locket that had once belonged to Salazar Slytherin, one of her family's most treasured items, which she sold for a small amount. Voldemort, like his ancestral family, the Gaunts, is a Parselmouth, meaning he can converse with serpents. Blinding light flashed from all the runes in the room, and with a victorious shout Voldemort came within his nemesis, filling the boy with his essence and making the binding permanent.

A 2018 Italian fan film titled Voldemort: Origins of the Heir depicts the story of Tom Riddle's rise to power. Seeing his nemesis reduced to this state was a huge turn-on for the Dark Lord, making his manhood stand proudly beneath his robes, eager to claim the boy completely. Merope decided to stop giving Tom the love potion, having come to the belief such enchantment of a man was tantamount to slavery.