The Unquenchable Thirst

Lord Voldemort was already a very powerful wizard, like Trump is already a very wealthy successful person. However, Voldemort's UNENDING quest for ALL the power led to his demise, not once but twice. Similarly, Trump appears to be checking off a bucket list item. He seeks not only to be powerful and wealthy in the sphere of business, he seeks the most powerful office in the free world. (Hopefully, the unquenchable thirst for power will result in his demise just like The Dark Lord.)

Followers

Similarly to Voldemort, Trump started out with a small number of followers but the his influence and his number of followers have increased dramatically. More and more people buying into the idea of a “safer society” either from a reduction of non-white people or muggles. If Trump wins, our next national monument could be a statue of him surrounded by money and held up by the rest of hard-working America.

Pure Societies

Possibly the most disturbing similarity is the likeness of their ideologies. Lord Voldemort’s mission was to purify the wizarding world by ridding it of all muggle born and half blood wizards. Pure blood wizards were the only ones give real rights and all others, including pure bloods who didn’t swear off undesirables were essentially exterminated. Or at least, that was the plan. Luckily, young Harry and his friends, pure, half and muggle borns alike, joined forces and triumphed over dark magic and the destructive ideas of Lord Voldemort’s regime. This scenario is tremendously symbolic of our world today. While Trump has not preached for genocide of any particular race, ideas along the lines of removing all muslims from the country, forbidding Syrian refugees and immigrants alike to cross our borders and alienating the african american population in our country is probably how Voldemort rose to power in the first place. All it takes is enough blind eyes or shoulder shrugging for something like a genocide to take place. But like Harry Potter and his friends, I have a firm belief that millennials will put a stop to inequality by putting up a fight until things are right, even without wands or magic.

Modest Beginnings

As most Potterheads know, Tom Riddle (a.k.a. Lord Voldemort) was orphaned as a young boy, only to be helped by a gracious hand from Dumbledore. As Trump himself has pointed out, he also comes from a modest past and small loan of $1 million.

The Future

This is just a simple prediction of my own making but I see a very clear future where Hillary Clinton wins the White House in 2016. Weak and defeated, Trump will retreat to the Forbidden Forest to sustain his wounded ego on unicorn blood for the next four years. Some of his followers will disappear, some will be profusely apologetic and others will pretend that they were never loyal to him at all. (Maybe their names will be Lucius Malfoy or Paul Ryan)

Dark Nicknames

Tom Marvolo Riddle rearranged his name to be Lord Voldemort when he turned to dark magic. Donald Trump has a variety of arguably less sinister options including but not limited to:

Lord Ant Dump

Lord Nadtump

Lord Unatmad

Facial Expressions

While most of these are purely coincidental, (and truly hilarious) I still have serious doubts about how real Trump’s hair is. It’s certainly not as good a coverup as Professor Quirrell’s turban, but it is deceptively thick. How do we know whether or not Lord Voldemort’s face is really under there?