3 Things That Still Don’t Make Sense About Voldemort

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As a huge *Harry Potter* fan, it’s amazing to me how much the series still means to people, even years later! The fact that they’re rebooting it just shows how excited everyone still is about the Wizarding World. And while all the characters are great, Lord Voldemort really stands out as one of the best villains ever written. He’s constantly discussed by fans of both the books and movies, but honestly, some of his choices don’t quite add up. He’s incredibly powerful and scary, and usually pretty clever, but there are moments where he acts in ways that just feel… inconsistent. It makes you wonder what he was thinking!

Analyzing these choices isn’t simply finding fault; it’s about understanding how the story develops its main villain. Upon closer inspection, a few inconsistencies with Voldemort become clear. Here are three things about his character that don’t quite add up.

3) Racism Against Muggles

Lord Voldemort is a compelling villain, mainly because he represents a classic, bigoted character who believes in keeping groups separate. He intensely dislikes people without magical backgrounds (Muggles) and those with non-purely magical ancestry. The irony is that Voldemort himself is a half-blood. He dedicates his life to claiming that wizards with purely magical lineage are better, all while trying to hide his own family history. This doesn’t make sense, and reveals that Voldemort is motivated by fear and a lack of self-confidence, combined with an enormous ego. He craves control, but his need to prove his superiority actually highlights his own vulnerabilities more than any real danger posed by others.

What really gets me is that Voldemort’s racism isn’t just talk – he actually builds his whole army on those awful ideas. And it’s not like it’s isolated to him, either. Even within the wizarding world, you see this subtle prejudice everywhere. It’s unsettling how characters we think of as ‘good’ sometimes let little biases slip out without realizing it. It’s like the whole magical society already believes in this idea of ‘pure’ bloodlines, and Voldemort just takes it to a terrifying extreme.

2) Choosing Between Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom

The heart of the *Harry Potter* story is the prophecy that named Harry as “the Chosen One.” However, it turns out the prophecy could have just as easily been about Neville Longbottom. This raises a key question: why did Voldemort specifically target Harry? It’s strange because Voldemort, who was so fixated on pure bloodlines, went after someone who wasn’t fully pure-blood. Considering Neville’s completely pure lineage and Voldemort’s belief in the superiority of pure-bloods, Neville actually would have seemed like a more significant threat to his power.

Ultimately, Voldemort’s deep-seated self-loathing might be the only explanation we ever find. His insecurity led him to underestimate his opponents. By fixating on Harry, he ironically strengthened the magical protection Lily Potter created with her sacrifice, making Harry a more formidable enemy. Had he targeted Neville instead, the entire course of events would have been drastically different.

1) He Didn’t Realize Harry Potter Was a Horcrux

Perhaps Voldemort’s most significant error was failing to understand that Harry was an unintentional Horcrux. He dedicated his life to carefully creating Horcruxes, yet he didn’t realize a fragment of his soul had ended up inside Harry. It’s puzzling – if Albus Dumbledore, a famously powerful wizard, could figure it out, how did Voldemort miss it? Given Voldemort’s supposed equal level of magical ability, this oversight seems incredibly unlikely.

Here’s the thing that really bugs me about Voldemort‘s plan. The very mistake he makes – not understanding how the Horcrux inside Harry works – is what ultimately causes his defeat. When he attacks Harry in the Forbidden Forest, that fragment of his soul is destroyed, and *that’s* when the tide turns in the war. Honestly, if he’d just put two and two together earlier, he might have avoided his whole downfall. I get that the story *needed* a way for good to win, but it feels so illogical that someone as meticulous and power-hungry as Voldemort would overlook something so fundamental, especially considering he based his entire existence around creating Horcruxes in the first place. It’s a pretty glaring plot hole, if you ask me.

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2025-10-06 01:12