Which Wizard? A Moonspell Reimagined Character Guide

The Dark Lady

Name:

Pam Riddle Jr

The Dark Lady

Lady Valdis*

Species:

Witch

Gift/Special Abilities:

Above average IQ

Powerful wizard/witch abilities

Strong Dark Arts knowledge

Family:

Martin Riddle (grandfather)

Theresa Riddle (grandmother)

Pammy Riddle (mother)

Marva Riddle (grandmother)

Morgaine Riddle (aunt)

Mortimus Gaunt (father)

*After spending about twenty minutes trying to make a bloody anagram, I gave up. Valdis is Norse and means something along the lines of 'Goddess of Death'.

Pam Riddle Jr, aged 11:

Pam Riddle Jr, aged 17:

Pam Riddle Jr, aged 21:

NOTE: I feel like a female Voldemort needs a bit of a backstory, so here it is:

Mortimus Gaunt (Merope's counterpart) was raised by his oppressive heritage and purity obsessed mother and just as nutty sister in the Gaunt shack in Little Hangleton. He was treated as terribly by his mother and sister as his counterpart was by her father and brother. Mortimus fell in love with Pam 'Pammy' Riddle (Tom Riddle Sr's counterpart), who was as lovely and graceful as he imagined the sort of proper Pureblood witch his mother always raved about would be. Of course, she barely even knew he existed, so he used a love potion on her and Pammy married him.

When Pammy fell pregnant, Mortimus stopped using the love potion. A horrified Pammy then ran from him, but she was too ashamed to go back to her family (in the early 1900's a woman leaving her husband was frowned on, and a pregnant, unmarried woman even more so- to the class obsessed Riddles this sort of scandal would likely have had them disowning Pammy entirely). Pammy eventually gave birth at Wool's Orphanage and gave her newborn daughter (Voldemort's counterpart) her maiden name, Riddle, because she wanted nothing to do with Mortimus. She died before choosing a first name, so Mr. Cole named the baby after its mother, in the hope that Pam would grow up looking at least half as lovely as her mother, Pammy.

From there, Pam Riddle grew up in the orphanage the same way Tom Riddle did, except as a girl she was treated even worse. She became smart, ruthless, sadistic and filled with hatred for her dead mother and absent father, the other orphans and the orphanage caretakers (which later led to a hatred of muggles), her lowly station in life, and how men in particular treated her. She vowed to become powerful enough that everyone would bend to her will, and embraced the Dark Arts with a passion.

When she was sixteen she visited Little Hangleton and found her father, who had returned home to lick his wounds after Pammy ran off, and aunt (her grandmother was in Azkaban). Pam killed her father in a vicious rage and then obliviated and imperiused her aunt to take the fall for both Mortimus's death, and the murders of her grandparents, Martin and Theresa Riddle. She used the killing curse on Theresa Riddle, but burned Martin Riddle alive and used his death to create her first Horcrux.

After that she pretty much followed Voldemort's path, except after Petra Pettigrew used the ritual for her rebirth, Pam used another ritual (probably one that involved draining the blood of newborns, pulling the wings off fairies, and cutting out the still-beating hearts of unicorn foals) to make herself look better- because if a boy Voldemort was prideful, then a girl Voldemort would be twice so, and she would NOT accept not having a nose.

And that, my dear readers, is the story of Lady Valdis, the female Lord Voldemort.