Bad characters

[jferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 38337

Cygnus, replying to Barb:"Very interesting, and I agree with your 
basic premise that JKR's 'good' characters are more rounded and real 
than her bad ones."

I don't agree. JKR gives us a number of evil's faces, and exemplars of 
what she clearly sees as the great evils and sicknesses:

Out-and-out sociopathy: Voldemort, Lucius Malfoy
Prejudice and self-righteousness: the Dursleys
Gluttony: Dudley Dursley
Cowardice and self-absorption: Gilderoy Lockhart
Moral cowardice: Fudge
Coldness: Crouch Sr.
Schizophrenia: Crouch Jr.
Conflict/Redemption/Jealousy/Rage: Snape

Others *are* less clear: Pettigrew and Quirrell (Pettigrew, seeking to 
pump up his low self-esteem by betraying his friends (see "Freddy 
Corleone") or Quirrell, who flirted with evil and found himself 
trapped. Karkaroff, who knows?

Where else in literature for young people are young readers get a more 
sophisticated view of good and evil?