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31 December 1926. Died. 2 May 1998. Lord Voldemort (/ ˈvoʊldəmɔːr / VOHL-də-mor, /- mɔːrt / -mort in the films) [j] is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. He first appears in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) and returns either in person or in flashbacks ...
Voldemort effect. The Voldemort effect is a social phenomenon where people are fearful of naming someone, to speak of something or acknowledge it exists, and therefore derail any attempt to confront it. [1][2] The phrase takes cue from the line associated with Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series: 'he who must not be named', because they ...
14th-century depiction of King Henry II of England with Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket. " Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest? " (spoken aloud ⓘ; also expressed as " troublesome priest " or " meddlesome priest ") is a quote attributed to Henry II of England preceding the death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in ...
Few villains are as elusive as He Who Must Not Be Named, so even those who have read the "Harry Potter" series can learn more about Voldemort. 18 little-known facts about Voldemort even die-hard ...
The lamps are going out. Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933) " The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time ", British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey remarked to a friend on the eve of the United Kingdom's entry into the First World War. First published in Grey's memoirs in ...
Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. " A Psalm of Life " is a poem written by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, often subtitled "What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist". [1]
The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel (Musée Fabre, Montpellier). The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.It appeared in the King James Version of the Bible in Isaiah [1] and before that in the Vulgate (the late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible), [2] not as the name of a devil but as the Latin word lucifer (uncapitalized ...
Augustine: Hereto it also pertains that we be not deceived by the name of Christ not only in such as bear the name and do not the deeds, but yet more by certain works and miracles, such as the Lord wrought because of the unbelieving, but yet warned us that we should not be deceived by such to suppose that there was invisible wisdom where was a visible miracle; wherefore He adds, saying, Many ...