The REAL Reason Voldemort Visited Grindelwald - Harry Potter Explained

Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Today we’re discussing Voldemort and Grindelwald. More specifically- I’m going to be discussing Voldemort’s wild goose chase in tracking Grindelwald down, and WHY he did it. Grindelwald was famously defeated by Dumbledore in 1945, and that news was spread far and wide- so what could Grindelwald possibly offer Voldemort? Why would he still possess a certain wand?

Voldemort and Grindelwald, during their respective pursuits of power over the course of history, were each able to shake the wizarding world to its core. However, it should be noted that these men did actually have quite different objectives. Grindelwald wanted to obtain the Deathly Hallows, overthrow the statute of secrecy, and establish wizarding dominance over the muggle world- with no particular goal to ‘eradicate’ muggles or muggle-borns. Voldemort’s objective was much simpler - exterminate and enslave anyone that either opposed him or didn’t come from a pure magical blood line. In this way, though they are both undoubtedly evil, Voldemort was a lot more sinister.

And by the time 1945 rolled around, and Grindelwald’s own reign of terror was brought to an end- Voldemort was just getting started in his own dark pursuits. The defeat of Grindelwald only meant that were would be a brief pause in Tyranny, as in 1970 the first wizarding war officially began.

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[HarryPotterTheory]

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[VarjoPira]

It makes sense for Voldemort to largely ignore wandcraft and wand lore. For someone such as him, they're only tools to add to his power; not intimate, unique personalities to work in tandem with. Similar to the concept of love, Voldemort simply could not completely grasp this relationship.

[aerrae]

The thing about it is that Grindelwald was also a great seer. He probably knew he could help Harry and thus Dumbledore by stalling Voldemort by goading him. So in the end Voldemort may have been more powerful and devious but he wasn't half as clever as Grindelwald or Dumbledore.

[TheDeadGunslinger]

I love how Grindelwald just laughed in Toms face and called him a bitch, knowing Tommy would kill him, so he could finally greet death.

[ece_Scorpio]

Grindelwald put his life on the line to make sure Voldemort never found out that you need to defeat the wands previous owner in order to have its allegiance, he did have ownership of the wand and used it to its full potential, however the wand follows after the powerful so when he lost to Dumbledore, the wand left him too. Grindelwald used occulmency to keep voldemort from reading his mind knowing Grindelwald was lying yet he would never get the truth from him, that's why Grindelwald was goading voldemort to kill him so he would never find out.

[jcfra]

Grindelwald wasn't necessarily evil, but his actions were. He did evil things to achieve a goal he thought was noble. The rise of the magical race over muggles rather than living in fear and hiding. He probably despised Voldemort, since he was basically wiping out wizards and magical races.

[larissanunes]

As Dumbledore always said, Voldemort's worst fear was death. I think that's why he instinctively thought that the only way he would overcome any obstacles was through killing people and destroying things... and it's no different with obtaining the elder one's loyalty.

[stuartmcnaughton]

" I never had it". He had the Elder Wand, but this implies that he was never the wand's True Master, which means that Gregorovitch was never it's True Master. That sort of makes sense because I never saw Gregorovitch as someone who would or could defeat a powerful wizard and take his wand by force. More revelations to come in the Fantastic Beasts series I think.

[bokaboka]

I always believed that Voldemort was very confused with the information about wands switching allegiance. He has no emotional inteligence, he cant understand the mind of wand which is very emotionaly intelligent.
So i assumed he went to kill all the last owners he knew just to make sure the wand will switch its allegiance to him, he never understood that it is not about killing.

[KimsLantern]

I think Gellert could be more dangerous because of his most likely ability to love. He was charismatic enough to genuinely get other people to WILLINGLY believe in him and his cause. He was genuinely able to make people love him as well as fear him, and we all know how powerful love can be. Fantastic video!!!

[ravenregards]

Do you think that Voldemort splitting his soul did more damage than just to his soul? Maybe his intellect and reasoning faculties were affected, too. At some point, maybe Voldemort became more like a robot of instincts one track mindedness. All he could think was "must get elder wand, " "must kill Harry Potter", etc. He was no longer able to adjust his strategy.

[Waywind]

After the fall of Albus Dumbledore, Rufus scrimager should have released Grindelwald from prison and by the imperius curse or unbreakable vow ensured he served the ministry as an enforcer, to answer Voldemort's unrivaled power.

Could have had a nice Voldemort vs Grindelwald showdown even

[supasetleewairoj]

Grindelwald: "For the good of all magical kinds!"
Voldemort:

[penneyburgess]

I have been thinking about this a lot lately as my family recently rewatched the HP movies again. When the first brother received the elder wand he treated as his due. He and bragged and publicly boasted of his trickery and another killed him for it. He had no respect for death.
We already know that the second brother refused to accept the death of his beloved and used the stone to reanimate her.
I believe the third brother understood they had overstepped their rights when they demanded a boon from death. I believe he and his heirs used the cloak to protect mankind from men, such as his brothers. He accepted and respected death and used his gift to help mankind from death until the time Death had appointed.
Personally, I believe this is what makes you master of death. Something Grindlewald grasped after losing the elder wand.
If the wand chooses the wizard it makes sense that although you can win it in a duel or steal it or kill for it and even use it, the wand will always search for another true master.
I am looking forward to seeing Grindlewald lose his battle with Dumbledore because the wand has already chosen Dumbledore.

[ProfCuneusStern]

Consider this. What if the elder wand lies outside wand lore? What if the elder wand shows loyalty to those who possess Peverell blood? The wand may have betrayed Grindelwald because Dumbledore may be more closely related to the Peverell family than Grindelwald. If the elder wand is a family heirloom and shows more loyalty to someone who possesses more family blood, then maybe it never bonded to Voldemort because he had so very little of his soul left. In addition Harry possessed two other deathly hallows which are also inheritances from the Peverell family. This would mark him and prove to the wand that he has a stronger blood bond to the magical item and therefore the wand would obey Harry over Voldemort

[Huskytabby]

Video idea for you to do:

What additional effects do spells have that are not seen in the movies? For instance, what else can the patronus charm do besides ward off dementors?

[HeroShotz]

Grindelwald was the biggest threat as he had multiple countries worried about him. Ol volde just had england scared lol.

[AlanDike]

Grindelwald was more into wand lore. He was a great wizard. Put Harry's wand in Dumbledore's hand, and he'd still be MUCH more powerful than most. It's possible that Grindelwald never actually became the wands master when he stole it... He may have been speaking the truth there. He was very powerful with it, but the wand never lent it's allegiance. When Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald, the wand may have given allegiance then... It's the type of lie that would also be truth, making it much more difficult to detect even with lilgilimancy. It's the same type of information that Snape gave Voldemort.. true, but not accurate in all cases and can be misleading, or even intended to mislead.

[anirbanghosh]

Obviously Grindelwald was the Greater villain. Voldemort is just down right cruel, violent and sadistic, and time and again it has been proved how evil he is, the entire world knows he is evil. But that's not a real life villain. A real life villain is someone with a facade of goodness, who makes u feel that what he is doing is for the good of the ppl, or so as to say "For the Greater Good!".. Gellert Grindelwald portrayed by Jhonny Depp will always be one of my most favourite villains of all time, the other being Jim Moriarty by Andrew Scott in Sherlock

[DForever_IsawHarryAndNiall]

i will never forgive Steve Kloves for completely destroying of Grindelwald character in Deathly Hallows part 1 movie - never