Villains, Gollum, praise for contributers

[Tabouli]

No: HPFGUIDX 23906

Susanna:
> Voldemort is evil, but Lucius is the villain with style and he damned well knows that.

Yeahhh...  I'm sick of stupid bumbling villains who can be spotted several miles away by their black clothes and sinister voices.  Surely concocting plots to take over the world which almost succeed on a regular basis suggests some rudiment of intelligence.  Moreover, surely the triumph of the hero over evil is far more triumphant if the evil side actually has a couple of brain cells to rub together.

Which reminds me: disappointment about Moody being fake aside, is anyone else as impressed by me by Barty Junior's performance?  Now *that's* a villain with style.  Not only does he manage to escape his father's clutches and return to Voldemort (remember Barty Senior was supposed to be very powerful), act well enough to fool the greatest wizard of the age for nearly a whole year and  come up with an ingenious plan to maintain his fake identity, *and* successfully get Harry to Voldemort without Harry suspecting a thing??  Hey, horrible person, but great stuff.  Now there's class.  None of this snivelling servant or cape furling Evil Overlord stereotype business.

Chris, the Icicle Child:
> "My first year was a blast! I was almost killed by this ogre and
nearly eaten by a three-headed hound from Hell. My second year was a
little fuzzy; that was the year a Basilisk turned me to stone. My
third year was interesting; I got to hang out with a werewolf and an
outlaw on the Wizard's Ten Most Wanted list. My fourth year was
kinda boring in comparison. The worst that happened was getting huge
teeth and getting an awful story published about me in the
newspaper. Fortunately, neither of those things prevented me from
going to my first school dance. Things got kind of glum though when
Cedric died at the hand of a megalomaniac who wants to wipe muggles
off the map. Oh yeah, and you guys are muggles."

Heh heh heh.  Very good.  Hey Icicular One, welcome to HP4GU: I recognise you from the egroups list, where I hovered for a while and then left not long after some comment I made using X and Y as examples ended in me being accused of prejudice against people with sex chromosome abnormalities (??).

Aberforth's Goat:
> In LOTR Gollum is utlimately beyond redemption, even though there is a spark of good in him. 

I think the saddest scene in LOTR is the one where Gollum is gazing tenderly at Frodo and looks, for a moment, like a tired old hobbit lived long beyond his years, before Sam wakens and snaps at him and turns him back into the suspicious slime he usually is (thus destroying his last chance of redemption).

David:
> The Daily Prophet, 4 July 1981.
>
>Split at Top of Phoenix Order:  Forces of Light Divided
>From Our Special Correspondent, Rita Skeeter

More evil chuckling (hey, maybe I have the makings of an Evil Overlady myself!).  Nice work, David.  But what else would one expect from someone who has sufficient imagination to fancy Moaning Myrtle?

Tabouli.




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