Friday 20 November 2015

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Lord Voldemort

Lord Voldemort is most comply known as 'The One Who Must Not Be Named'. But right from the start he was known as Tom Riddle which makes his first appearance in the second film. Tom was an orphan just like Harry Potter, however Tom Riddle was a powerful wizard who dabbled in the dark arts and learning more and more into the dark arts, he manages to split his soul into eight pieces, which are known as horcruxes. With each piece spilt from his soul his appearance started to distort. Eventually Voldemort was ripped from his body, although he was unable to die he could not regain a permanent and physical body.  Although he wasn't dead his horcruxes were keeping him alive. Voldemort went to a forrest in Albania, where he waited for his faithful death eaters to find him however some had believed he had died and the others were in the prison Azkaban. Voldemort gained physical form by inhabiting snakes, thought he disliked doing so as the bodies of these animals were not up to standard to perform magic, and because his possession significantly reduced their lifespan, as non of his hosts ever surveyed for too long.



Below is a video of how they created Lord Voldemort, with the help from CGI.

Merpeople from Harry Potter 

 These creatures are also found in Harry Potter where students are contesting for the Triwizard tournament. These are the creatures that stops Harry from saving two people. Merpeople are half human and half fish hybrids, however they are not actually half breeds. Like all humans merpeople come in all shape and sizes, although colours that are uncommon in humans appear to be widespread in these creatures, as the majority of the Black Lake merpeople colony (the ones in Harry Potter) they have green hair, yellow eyes and grey skin and all the traits that would be very uncommon, for a human to naturally possess. As you can in the image below of the sculpture of the merpeople, they have yellow hair at the moment but when on screen and have been filmed they have green hair. These creatures are also a lot taller than humans as they can be up to seven feet which is not a usual height for humans.


Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Lordvoldemort.jpg [ Accessed 20th November 2015]
Image: http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/8/82/Merpeople-pottermore.png/revision/latest?cb=20140331190636&path-prefix=ru [Accessed 20th November 2015]
Image: https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7200/7012157713_bed51901f1.jpg [Accessed 20th November 2015]
Internet: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=lord+voldemort&fulltext=Search [Accessed 20th November 2015]
Internet: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Tom_Riddle [Accessed 20th November 2015]
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2FbjH6lQ-0 [Accessed 20th November 2015]

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