[HPforGrownups] Re: Character Sketch: Lord Voldemort

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 13758

Amy Z wrote:
> 
> Charmian posed:
 
> > Is Lord V the evil wizard to end all evil wizards, or are movements
> > like the Death Eaters not unprecedented in the HP world?
> 
> Sometimes he's referred to as the worst dark wizard "in a century,"
> sometimes "ever"; both are probably more hyperbole than verifiable
> fact (how does one quantify Evil Wizardry?).  Suffice it to say he's
> really, really evil and really, really powerful.  I'd imagine someone
> like him, if not as strong, comes along every so often--human nature
> being what it is.

It's mentioned that Dumbledore previously defeated another dark
wizard called Grindelwald.  So apparently they do pop up from
time to time.  Probably with depressing regularity, human nature
being what it is.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>