Lord Voldemort is an evil character - there’s no doubt about it. He kills people with chilling ease, takes great pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering on others and shows little remorse even to those in his inner circle. He’s one of the biggest villains in Hollywood history and Ralph Fiennes’ portrayal of the twisted wizard is a joy to behold.
However, Warner Bros. didn’t include every bad thing the Dark Lord did throughout the Harry Potter series. We now take a look at 10 scenes that were missing from the movies that would have made him even more nefarious had they been shown on the big screen.
Tormenting Orphans
Voldemort wasn’t just evil when he was at the height of his power - he was actually twisted long before he met Albus Dumbledore. The Dark Lord grew up in an orphanage and, while it’s shown that he used to steal from his house-mates, he also took sick pleasure in tormenting them too.
That’s why Harry and Albus Dumbledore go to the cave in the Half-Blood Prince. It’s where Voldemort, then known as Tom Riddle, would take victims during day trips to the beach. This isn’t explained, perhaps to keep the tone lighter for younger fans of the franchise.
Meeting Morfin Gaunt
Tom Riddle spends the summer before his seventh year at Hogwarts determined to find out more about his past. And, when he travels to the small village of Little Hangleton, he meets uncle Morfin Gaunt for the first time.
However, despite Morfin being a rather sad and sorry state, he stuns his relative and takes the thing his uncle treasures most - the ring formerly belonging to Marvolo Gaunt. This is then turned into a Horcrux.
Killing The Riddles
After meeting Morfin and learning that his father was a muggle who spurned his mother, Voldemort goes to the old Riddle House. Once there, he encounters both Tom Riddle Sr and his grandparents as well.
The Dark Lord doesn’t forgive easily and doesn’t let them off the hook, either. He instead murders all three in cold blood and then allows an old muggle man named Frank Bryce to endure years of persecution and finger-pointing. To make things even worse, the Dark Lord murders Bryce many years later.
Killing Hepzibah Smith
After he leaves Hogwarts, Tom Riddle starts working in Borgin and Burkes. Many are shocked by this - the prospect of somebody with his talent and ambition settling for a shop job. But the Dark Lord, as ever, has a secret motive behind his thinking.
Voldemort pursues historical artifacts in order to turn them into Horcruxes. He meets a woman named Hepzibah Smith, who has both Helga Hufflepuff’s cup and Salazar Slytherin’s locket. He then murders her and blames it on her poor house-elf Honkey, who is forced to take the blame.
Cursed The Defence Against The Dark Arts Post
Having got all the artifacts he craves from his time working in retail, Voldemort spends years lying low. However, he emerges to surprisingly attend a job interview with Albus Dumbledore about the prospect of him taking the Defence Against the Dark Arts job at Hogwarts.
When he doesn’t get what he wants, he curses the position. Dumbledore finds himself having to employ somebody new in the role every year, without fail, following his decision to snub his old student. That leads to some dying, some losing their memory and just about everybody suffering in the years that follow.
Tested Kreacher
In the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Kreacher agrees to help Harry in his fight against Lord Voldemort. Not too much is said about the reasons why, though, with the movie deliberately vague.
And that’s because, in the book, Kreacher harrowingly reveals how he was used as a test subject by the Dark Lord when it came to testing the defenses put in place in order to protect Salazar Slytherin’s old locket. It’s a dark, chilling tale and would certainly have frightened some viewers watching on had the whole horrific experience been recalled.
Torturing Bertha Jorkins
Bertha Jorkins doesn’t appear in the Goblet of Fire movie, despite being central to the plot in the book. In the source material, it’s revealed how she’s a Ministry of Magic worker who is kidnapped by Lord Voldemort and later killed after disclosing information about the Triwizard Tournament, which is due to be held at Hogwarts.
In order to obtain this information, Voldemort uses the Cruciatus Curse over and over again. It would have been horrifying to watch this play out in front of our eyes so it’s for the best that Warner Bros chose to omit all mention of this - and Jorkins - altogether.
Creating Inferi
We see Inferi used in the Half-Blood Prince, with the zombie-like creatures attacking Harry and Dumbledore as they attempt to steal the locket from the cave. What’s not explained, though, is just how they came to exist.
They’re actually dead people brought back to life - which makes THAT jump scare in the movie all the more terrifying. Again, we feel it’s something the children watching in the movie theatre didn’t necessarily have to know. But what sort of evil person bewitches dead bodies? Voldemort really was something else…
Trying To Torture A Corpse
What’s so sickening about Voldemort is how much pleasure he takes in the death of his enemies. And, when he believes he’s killed Harry at the Battle of Hogwarts, he attempts to mock the Boy Who Lived by using the Cruciatus Curse on the Boy Who Lived’s body.
Thankfully, Harry isn’t dead and he’s immune to pain due to the fact the Dark Lord is using the Elder Wand for this horrible act. But the thought of him callously playing with the dead bodies of his victims makes Tom Riddle even more wicked and vile.
Peter Pettigrew’s Death
Sure, Voldemort isn’t present for when Peter Pettigrew dies in the Deathly Hallows novel. But he’s the cause of Wormtail’s death nonetheless.
The silver hand he gifted his servant in the Goblet of Fire three years previously turns on its master, choking Pettigrew after he showed the slightest bit of hesitation in following Voldemort’s orders. It shows that the villain was always one step ahead and anticipated Pettigrew’s betrayal. This wasn’t displayed on the big screen, with Pettigrew merely knocked unconscious and never seen again.