Harry Potter is a central character in the seven-book series who attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Lord Voldemort, the main antagonist, seeks immortality and unlimited power. He splits his soul into seven pieces, known as horcruxes, to prevent his own death. Throughout the books, Voldemort continues hunting for more power and trying to kill Harry Potter. By the final book, Voldemort has taken control of the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts as he searches for the Deathly Hallows. Harry, Ron and Hermione work to find and destroy Voldemort's remaining horcruxes which leads to the climactic final battle between Harry

1. Welcome
Presented by Nupur Vyas
Sem -4
Roll No : 34
Submitted to Department of English, MKBU
(Bhavnagar)
Topic: Lord Voldemort's Quest for the Power

2. About the Author- J.K Rowling
• J. K. Rowling is a British novelist, screenwriter and film
producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy
series.
• The books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple
awards, and sold more than 400 million copies.
• They have become the best-selling book series in history and
been the basis for a series of films over which Rowling had
overall approval on the scripts and maintained creative
control by serving as a producer on the final instalment.
• Harry Potter series
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (26 June 1997)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2 July 1998)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (8 July 1999)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (8 July 2000)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (21 June 2003)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (16 July 2005)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (21 July 2007)

3. Major Characters in all the series as well as in
Deathly - Hallows
• Characters
• Harry Potter.
• Ron Weasley.
• Hermione Granger.
• Lord Voldemort.
• Albus Dumbledore.
• Severus Snape.
• Rubeus Hagrid.
• Draco Malfoy.

4. Harry potter seven series in brief:
Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone
Harry's first contact with the wizarding world is through a half-
giant, Rubeus Hagrid, keeper of grounds and keys at Hogwarts.
He witnessed his parents' murder by the power-obsessed dark
wizard Lord Voldemort, who subsequently attempted to kill him
as well.
Harry Potter is central character in the all the seven stories. He got an invitation letter from
Hogwarts – School of Witchcraft and wizardly. Introduction about Hogwarts school, various
professors , his friends Ron, Hermione and many more. Based upon the ancient alchemical
idea of the Philosopher's stone, the stone is owned by Nicolas Flamel and first mentioned
in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The stone is legendary in that it changes all
metals to gold, and can be used to brew a potion called the Elixir of Life, making the drinker
immortal. The Philosopher's Stone is seen only in the first and last book, although it is
referenced several times throughout the series. It was destroyed at the end of the first book
by Dumbledore with Flamel's agreement.
Harry potter is an Orphan Boy. He lives with his
uncle and aunt.[Muggle world- non magical
people]Harry’s eleventh birthday, he knows about
his past about Parents and he is part of wizard
community.[Magical People]

5. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry's second year at Hogwarts.
• He and his friends investigate a 50-year-old mystery that appears
uncannily related to recent sinister events at the school.
• Ron's younger sister, Ginny Wesley, enrolls in her first year at Hogwarts,
and finds an old notebook which turns out to be a previous student's
diary, Tom Marvolo Riddle, who later turns out to be Voldemort.
• The memory of Tom Riddle is inside of the diary and when Ginny begins
to confide in the diary Voldemort begins to possess her.
• Ginny becomes possessed by Voldemort through the diary and
unconsciously opens the "Chamber of Secrets", unleashing an ancient
monster, later revealed to be a basilisk, which begins attacking students
at Hogwarts.
• The book also introduces a new Defense Against the Dark
Arts teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart, a highly cheerful, self-conceited wizard.
• Harry also learns that his ability to speak the snake
language Parseltongue is rare and often associated with the Dark Arts.
The novel ends after Harry saves Ginny's life by destroying
the basilisk and the enchanted diary which has been the source of the
problems.

6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry’s third year in Hogwarts.
• Prison of Azakaban is Wizard’s Prison.
• Introduction of Sirius Black, who is friend of Harry’s parents.
• Sirius Black is escaped from the Azakaban Prison.
• Harry struggles with his reaction to the dementors – dark creatures
with the power to devour on a human soul, which feed on despair.
• Remus Lupin, a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher who is
eventually revealed to be a werewolf at the end of the book.
• Sirius Black was misrepresented by Peter Pettigrew, that Black was
the killer of Harry’s parents and member of Voldemort's team.
• But actually Sirius Black was faithful towards Harry’s parents. Peter
Pettigrew is part of Voldemort’ team.
• Lupin teaches dark arts to Harry.

7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry is unwillingly entered as a participant in the Triwizard
Tournament, a dangerous yet exciting contest where three
"champions", one from each participating school, must compete
with each other in three tasks in order to win the triwizard cup.
• Harry must compete against a witch and a wizard "champion" from
visiting schools Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, as well as another
Hogwarts student.
• Harry is guided through the tournament by their new Defence
Against the Dark Arts professor, Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, who
turns out to be an impostor – one of Voldemort's supporters
named Barty Crouch, Jr. in disguise.
• Voldemort's plan to have Crouch use the tournament to bring Harry
to Voldemort succeeds. Although Harry manages to escape, Cedric
Diggory, the other Hogwarts champion in the tournament, is killed by
Peter Pettigrew and Voldemort re-enters the wizarding world with a
physical body.

8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry must confront the newly resurfaced Voldemort.
• In response to Voldemort's reappearance, Dumbledore re-activates the Order of the
Phoenix, a secret society which works from Sirius Black's dark family home to defeat
Voldemort's minions and protect Voldemort's targets, especially Harry.
• Despite Harry's description of Voldemort's recent activities, the Ministry of Magic and
many others in the magical world refuse to believe that Voldemort has returned.
• In an attempt to counter and eventually disgrace Dumbledore, who along with Harry
is the most prominent voice in the wizarding world attempting to warn of Voldemort's
return, the Ministry appoints Dolores Umbridge as the High Investigator of Hogwarts
and the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher.
• She transforms the school into a dictatorial regime and refuses to allow the students
to learn ways to defend themselves against dark magic.
• With Ron and Hermione's suggestion, Harry forms "Dumbledore's Army", a secret
study group aimed to teach his classmates the higher-level skills of Defence Against
the Dark Arts that he has learned from his previous encounters with Dark wizards.
• An important prophecy concerning Harry and Lord Voldemort is revealed, and Harry
discovers that he and Voldemort have a painful connection, allowing Harry to view
some of Voldemort's actions telepathically.
• At the end, Harry and his friends face off against Voldemort's Death Eaters at
the Ministry of Magic. Although the timely arrival of members of the Order of the
Phoenix saves the children's lives, Sirius Black is killed in the conflict.

9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Voldemort begins fighting open
rivalry. Harry and his friends are relatively protected from that danger
at Hogwarts.
• At the beginning of the novel, lacking his own book, Harry is given an
old potions textbook filled with many notes and recommendations
signed by a mysterious writer; "the Half-Blood Prince."
• This book is a source of scholastic success and great recognition from
their new potions master, Horace Slughorn, but because of the potency
of the spells that are written in it, becomes a source of concern.
• Harry takes private lessons with Dumbledore, who shows him various
memories concerning the early life of Voldemort in a device called
a Pensive.
• These reveal that in order to preserve his life, Voldemort has split his
soul into pieces, creating a series of horcruxes – evil enchanted items
hidden in various locations, one of which was the diary destroyed in the
second book.
• Harry's snobbish rival, Draco Malfoy, attempts to attack Dumbledore,
and the book concludes in the killing of Dumbledore by Professor Snape
- Half-Blood Prince.

10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• It begins directly after the events of the sixth book. Lord Voldemort has gained
power to control of the Ministry of Magic.
• Harry, Ron and Hermione drop out of school so that they can find and destroy
Voldemort's remaining horcruxes.
• As they search for the horcruxes, they learns details about Dumbledore's past, as
well as Snape's true intentions – he had worked on Dumbledore's behalf since the
murder of Harry's mother. Snape is killed by Voldemort.
• The book culminates in the Battle of Hogwarts. Harry, Ron and Hermione, in
conjunction with members of the Order of the Phoenix and many of the teachers
and students, defend Hogwarts from Voldemort, his Death Eaters, and various
dangerous magical creatures.
• Several major characters are killed in the first wave of the battle, including Remus
Lupin and Fred Weasley.
• After learning that he himself is a horcrux, Harry surrenders himself to Voldemort
in the Forbidden Forest, who casts a killing curse at him.
• The defenders of Hogwarts do not surrender after learning of Harry's assumed
death and continue to fight on. Harry awakens and faces Voldemort, whose
horcruxes have all been destroyed.
• In the final battle, Voldemort's killing curse rebounds off Harry's defensive spell
killing Voldemort. Harry Potter marries and has children with Ginny Weasley and
Hermione Granger marries and has children with Ronald Weasley.

11. Seven Horcruxes and Deathly Hallows
• Lord Voldemort's had seven
Horcruxes:
• Tom Riddle's diary. -> Destroyed in
Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets.
• Marvolo Gaunt's Ring. ...
• Salazar Slytherin's Locket. ...
• Helga Hufflepuff's Cup. ...
• Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem. ...
• Harry Potter (himself)
• Nagini the Snake.

12. Lord Voldemort's quest for the Power
• To know the power of antagonist we must put protagonist to
opposite. Generally protagonist are powerful then antagonist but
here antagonist, Voldemort is powerful than Protagonist, Harry.
• Witch and wizard have fear about Voldemort so they rarely utter
Voldemort's name. Voldemort is aware about these all things but
ultimately he wants immortality. If he thinks to rule over Hogwarts he
can but he just wants to kill Harry. Harry also afraid of Voldemort's
power but he is supported by supernatural power like his mother,
professor Dumbledore and Hagrid.

13. Continue..
• In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Voldemort furthers his quest
for ultimate power is visible. He is searching a powerful wand to kill
Harry. Later on he found that Harry and his friends are hunting and
destroying his Horcruxes. Voldemort uses Harry’s blood to resurrect
himself. Harry’s blood is runs through Voldemort’s veins so Harry
cannot be killed as his mother’s protection lives in Voldemort’ body
too. Instead Voldemort destroy the part of his own soul resides in
Harry’s body.
• To sustain forever Voldemort divided his Horcruxes into seven parts
which makes him to alive.

14. Continue…
• Horace Slughorn view on Voldemort about how he is
powerful
• "When I first met young Mr. Riddle, he was a quiet albeit
brilliant boy, committed to becoming a first rate wizard.
Not unlike others I've known. Not unlike yourself. If the
monster existed it was buried deep within."
• —Horace Slughorn to Harry Potter about his first
experiences with Tom Riddle

15. Continue….
• He was too aware about his power yet he has fear
of losing his self. He is Lord of evil and has each
kind of skill to show his power to other.
• He can do anything yet he mere a wooden toy
because of writer. He is not aware that weather he
will raise his level or not but he keeps fighting and
loses his confidence at the end. He thinks that
whatever he is doing is with contemplate so the
result will be good as he will win fight and will be
immortal.

16. Continue…
• Throughout the novel it is not just talking about physical power but
the power of magic or memory is represented. Memory of magic like
how much people can remember and apply when the time comes.
• If I talk about physical strength then Voldemort is elder and strong by
body and as opposite Harry is a child and not capable to destroy
Voldemort. J. K. Rowling shows the ultimate power of human beings.
• Voldemort starts searching powerful wand. He thinks that it was the
wand of Professor Snap who first attacked so he killed him and grab
that wand. In reality Draco first attacked which is fare ahead of
Voldemort's guess. Harry knows about this so he got the power of
Dumbledore through this wand and successfully killed him.

17. Continue….
• Voldemort has fear of death so he says to Dumbledore;
• Voldemort: "There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!"
• Albus Dumbledore: "You are quite wrong. Indeed, your failure to
understand that there are things much worse than death has always been
your greatest weakness.“
- quotes from texts.

18. Thank you

19. Sources
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter
• http://tadhava.blogspot.in/2016/03/lord-voldemorts-quest-for-
power-in.html
• Google images