'The Most Useless Wizard That Ever Existed': Harry Potter Meme Pokes Fun At the Voldemort's Dumbest Failure
We all know that Voldemort messed up every step of the way despite all his arrogance and sense of superiority, but his biggest failure is straight-up laughable.
The early Death Eaters used to think Voldemort was trying to cleanse the Wizarding World of the Muggle plague (or whatever they called it).
The later Death Eaters knew he wanted to take his revenge. The Order of Phoenix considered him to be a maniac striving for power…
But all of them were only partially right, to put it mildly.
Sure, the Dark Lord wanted power: he had been a sadistic control freak since childhood. His desire to take revenge on Harry Potter was also, of course, very real — he hated the boy who took everything from him.
Yet we only learn Voldemort's deepest motivation for everything he did way later in the series.
Voldemort was scared of death. Even when he was a kid and initially learned that he was a wizard, he immediately jumped to the conclusion that a wizard can't die — in young Tom Riddle's eyes, death was for the weak.
As he grew up, he was researching the ways of becoming immortal, and it was his finite goal.
What started as a way to escape the inevitable as proof of power became a real fear as Voldemort kept killing people.
The dead scared him, they became his enemies, haunting him — and the idea of joining them on the other side terrified the Dark Lord.
The Philosopher's Stone, unicorn's blood, multiple Horcruxes — Tom Riddle was ready to do anything to avoid dying for good.
Most of his twisted schemes and crimes revolved around that fear, and this is why what comes next is so hilariously funny.
Voldemort, in the end, died at the age of 71. It's not a long life even for a Muggle, let alone for a wizard.
Albus Dumbledore, who created a grand total of zero Horcruxes and killed no people in pursuit of immortality, died at 115, and not even by natural causes.
It's a well-known fact, too, that powerful wizards can live pretty long. While chasing immortality, Voldemort managed to die way earlier than he would've if he just lived a peaceful life.
Out of the 71 years he spent on Earth, we can also deduct 16 years prior to his graduation from Hogwarts and 13 years of his barely-existence after the Avada Kedavra ricochet.
He ended up having just a bit more than 40 years to actually live. And even those years he spent pursuing the impossible, devoid of any pleasure…
Voldemort failed to achieve the one and only thing that was so important to him, and he ended up getting a much worse end result than if he'd never tried to do anything with his mortality in the first place.
He's largely laughed at for this, and rightfully so.
This meme sums up the entire situation perfectly and gets the Dark Lord the proper roasting he deserves (and yes, it does sound like Hermione's midnight brainstorm result).