What HP Character Scares You Most?

[Steve Bates]

No: HPFGUIDX 19

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, MMcNie at m... wrote:
> >  
> > I think it bears discussing here.  We are all adults (or close 
> enough 
> > to it)--are there any aspects or characters in the Harry Potter 
> books 
> > that creep you out?
> > 
> >  
> > Ebony AKA AngieJ (No more confusion about "selah_1977"!  Yes!)
> 
> 
> No question about it: the dementors. Everything about them makes my 
> skin crawl.
> 
> 
> Margaret

Awesome!  Our first thread.  I know it sounds almost too obvious, but 
I would have to say Voldemort is the scariest.  I mean specifically 
Voldemort as he appeared in the very first chapter of Goblet of 
Fire.  The whole way Rowling set everything up in the chapter made 
the sense of dread around the Riddle House seem very real.  Then 
watching Bryce break the number one rule of horrow fiction by going 
into the house with the killer inside made me want to yell "Get out 
of there!"  And when Nagini told Voldermort that Bryce was 
outside the room. . . .wow!  Creepy! But I still was shocked by how 
suddenly Voldermort killed Bryce.
Which is why Voldermort is so frightening.  The dementors at least 
can be stopped by the Patronus.  Voldermort can use Avada Kedavra 
with no hesitation whatsoever, and there is no blocking that.  He is 
frightening as Hitler was frightening: he is an evil person with huge 
power and nothing to stop him from using it, and he can definitely 
manipulate others into doing evil in his name.
But he is also scary in the horror movie sense: he is a supernatural 
monster--amazing how Rowling effortlessly combined these two types of 
frightening figures in Voldemort.  She shows how good she is at 
handling the "monster" type by not letting us see the exact form 
Voldemort takes---and the mystery of it haunts the entire book.  This 
makes the impact when Voldemort reveals himself even greater.
But Voldermort's sudden return to power hardly hit me harder 
than "The Riddle House" chapter--at the end of it I was almost 
breathless; I knew then that GoF would definitely be the best Potter 
book yet.