truly evil female character, was: Re: Icicle

[Tom Wall]

No: HPFGUIDX 58920

Samantha asked:
1. "The first truly evil female character makes her debut."---Rita?

I, Tom, reply:
Well, my take on this issue is that Rita isn't evil. She's an 
opportunist and a liar, but I don't think that this qualifies her as 
evil. She's a journalist. What do you expect?

It's also interesting that JKR doesn't consider any of the Slytherin 
ladies as evil, if the first truly evil female enters the story in 
GoF. This means that Millicent Bulstrode and Pansy Parkinson don't 
make the cut. They're mean, but not evil. Sorry, Darrin. ;-)

That said, I have two guesses on who that evil female character is, 
one that I like far more than the other: 

1) Narcissa Malfoy. We meet her first, but I have difficulty 
classifying her as evil because, to date, she's really done nothing 
in canon that we can attribute to her, good *or* bad.

2) The dark-haired lady from the Pensieve, the woman whom I consider 
to be Mrs. Lestrange. I mean, let's face it - she proclaims her 
loyalty to Voldemort in front of a council of wizards, and tells 
Crouch that her and her compadres went looking for him. I think that 
this qualifies her as evil, oh yes, *very* evil. ;-)

-Tom