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- Voldemort, having been inexplicably unable to kill Harry as a baby, disappears for eleven years, but he returns when Harry begins school at Hogwarts. He takes over the body of a professor, Quirrell, and tries to steal the Sorcerer’s Stone in order to revive himself and eventually return to power.
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Many characters refer to Voldemort only as You-Know-Who. Even after his disappearance, powerful wizards like Dumbledore are wary that Voldemort will be back to complete his goal eventually. Throughout the book, Harry learns bits and pieces about Voldemort and why everyone is so afraid of him.
Harry is shocked to find Voldemort’s face on the back of Quirrell’s head—Voldemort is a shape-shifter and has been using Quirrell’s body. Voldemort tries to persuade Harry to give him the stone, which he knows is in Harry’s pocket.
When Dumbledore gets the upper hand, Voldemort attempts to possess Harry but finds that he cannot; Harry is too full of that which Voldemort finds incomprehensible, and which he detests as weakness: love.
Voldemort, having been inexplicably unable to kill Harry as a baby, disappears for eleven years, but he returns when Harry begins school at Hogwarts. He takes over the body of a professor, Quirrell, and tries to steal the Sorcerer’s Stone in order to revive himself and eventually return to power.
The villain of the novel, the Dark Lord Voldemort is a snakelike human obsessed with conquering death and creating a world in which pureblood wizards are the only people with power. He especially hates Muggles and his supporters torture Muggles for fun.
The biggest difference between Harry and Voldemort was that Harry, as the true Master of Death, accepted his own mortality, which ultimately made him a stronger person than his nemesis. Voldemort's fear of death and obsession with immortality led him to create seven Horcruxes, a feat unheard of.
Dumbledore says that Quirrell has died, but Harry merely delayed Voldemort’s return to power. Harry then asks why Quirrell couldn’t touch him; Dumbledore explains that the kind of love and sacrifice that Lily made in dying for Harry gives a person some protection forever.
