He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Name (who Voldemort?) Shhh!!!!

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 13429

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Scott" <harry_potter00 at y...> wrote:

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> Cedric Diggory's death showed that Voldemort was evil, and that he 
> didn't care who he killed to get what he wanted. However Voldemort 
> himself had no personal connections to Diggory, (does he have any 
> personal connections to ANYONE) and so this made it seem I don't 
know 
> "less". A villian that can kill his "friends" without any remorse 
is 
> far scarier than one that simply kill those that he doesn't know to 
> gain power. Perhaps this is a personal perception.

Look at Chap 32/33 of GoF: Just think of Voldy's flippant 
indifference to Wormtail's sacrifice (which, if I pat myself on the 
back, I think I portrayed fairly well in my most recent filk), or his 
casually sadistic taunting of the returning Death-Eaters. JKR 
powerfully gives us the sense that he would kill any of them with the 
flimsiest pretext, without the slightest remorse.  

And is Hitler - who primarily murdered "those he [didn't] know" - any 
less evil than Stalin,  the majority of whose victims came from among 
his "own" people?  

I'm working on an essay for HP4GU about a man named Enver Hoxha. If 
you think EVil in the ultimate sense is merely a literary 
affectation, a deeper acquaintance with the likes of Mr. Hoxha might 
give you a different persepective.

Who is Evner Hoxha? He was the dictator of Albania at the time that 
Lord Voldemort was exiled to that most unhappy of nations....   

    - CMC