Is LV modeled on Crowley?

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Caius Marcius" 
<coriolan at ...> wrote:
> 
> Crowley was more of a Lockhart than a Voldemort, IMO.  More than a 
> bit  of a flake, but certainly no evil monster. Snip> 

> Where did you find the "no good or evil, only power and those too 
> afraid to use it" quote? The closest thing I could find was his 
> motto, 
> "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law," 

Tonks:
Here is a link to a picture which in some sense does look a bit like 
LV in the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CrowleyFinger.jpg

I can't find the website again that I was looking on before. But 
actually it was one of his followers who said "there is no good or 
evil, etc" and that was L. Ron Hubbard. 

As I understand it, Crowley was a necromancer, and did do many acts 
of dark magic. I am told that there were secrets of the Golden Dawn 
that were never to be made public and he did. I will not mention the 
name of the books, since there are young people on this part of the 
board and I got in trouble for even talking about the triangle with 
the circle in it on another site. The book by Crowley is one of the 
most Dark Magic things I have ever seen, it summons demons. Crowley 
himself said that he was the Anti-Christ. Not true,of coures, but he 
saw himself as evil and it was his desire to be so.

I am not saying that the magic in HP has anything to do with real 
dark magic or real wizardry for that matter. But an author can use 
people in her mind as a role model for a figure. I am not heavly 
invested in this theory, so it doesn't matter to me one way of the 
other. I am just offering it as food for thought.