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Tom Marvolo Riddle is Voldemort's birth name. His middle name 'Marvolo' comes from his maternal grandfather Marvolo Gaunt. The name anagrams to 'I am Lord Voldemort', which he reveals in Chamber of Secrets.

Though it was actually Barty Crouch Jr. disguised as Mad-Eye Moody using Polyjuice Potion throughout the year, the officially listed Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher for Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts was Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody.

Tim Robbins starred in all three films: War of the Worlds (2005), Arlington Road (1999), and The Shawshank Redemption (1994). His iconic role as Andy Dufresne in Shawshank is particularly memorable.

Hedwig is Harry Potter's loyal snow-white owl, a birthday gift from Hagrid when Harry turned eleven. She serves as Harry's companion and mail carrier throughout the series until her tragic death in Deathly Hallows.

Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze indeed co-starred in the 1991 action film 'Point Break', where they played an FBI agent and a bank-robbing surfer respectively. 'My Private Idaho' (1991) starred River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves but not Swayze. 'Johnny Mnemonic' (1995) starred Reeves without Swayze. 'Little Buddha' (1993) featured Reeves but not Swayze.

James Potter's animagus form was indeed a stag, which is also the form of Harry's Patronus. This connects to the Prongs Marauder nickname. A horse, dog, and mouse are not James' animagus forms - the dog is Sirius (Padfoot), and there's no canonical horse or mouse animagus among the Marauders.

The Marauder's Map was created by four Gryffindor students: James Potter (Prongs), Sirius Black (Padfoot), Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail), and Remus Lupin (Moony). Tom Riddle (Lord Voldemort) was not involved and belonged to a different generation, being decades older than the Marauders.

Neville's parents, Frank and Alice Longbottom, were tortured to the point of permanent insanity by Bellatrix Lestrange using the Cruciatus Curse. They did not die, nor did they experience bliss or amnesia specifically - they were driven permanently insane and institutionalized at St Mungo's Hospital.