Who's the baddest of them all?

[lucky_kari <lucky_kari@yahoo.ca>]

No: HPFGUIDX 47993

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Caius Marcius
<coriolan_cmc at h...>" <coriolan_cmc at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z <lupinesque at y...>" 
> <lupinesque at y...> wrote:
> > Actually, it's just who's the badder of the two, but that doesn't 
> > sound right.
> > 
> > I was in a class yesterday where one of the kids was explaining to 
> > the rest that Sauron is even worse than Voldemort.  She said that 
> her 
> > father (who has read her HP and is reading her LoTR) said so, and 
> > seemed to think that settled it.  What do you all think?  I promise 
> I 
> > won't spoil her illusions of paternal infallibility if the 
> consensus 
> > here is that Voldemort gets the Most Evil prize.

Sauron hands down. It's like comparing some random evil guy to Satan.
Sauron was pretty much angelic, to start with. 

CMC wrote:
>And nobody in Middle-Earth seems afraid to say Sauron's name.

But wait, JKR, imho, took the idea of Voldemort being nameless from
LotR. The Nameless One, the Dark Lord, the Nameless Shadow, was what
the people of Gondor called Sauron. Not 'Sauron.' Ever. 

Eileen