LV is the monkey, but who is grinding the organ?

[tigerpatronus]

No: HPFGUIDX 85382


The tag line is stolen from another post that I read a couple days 
ago, and I loved the image so much that I had to steal it. Sorry, out 
there, whoever it was, but it is such a lovely image. 

It has been stated before in this group that LV is too cartoonish, 
too outlandish, with his crimson, slit-pupil eyes and albino skin and 
swirling capes, to be the *real* evil villian. Let us, for the 
purposes of this thread, assume this is so. 

But who, then, is the real villian, who is truly the enemy? 

Some offerings: 

Lucius Malfoy: who may be pulling Fudge's strings at the MoM.

Fudge: who isn't as thick as he seems to be.

Dumbledore: who gives Harry just enough info to make the wrong 
decision every time, and in whose eyes that enigmatic triumph glinted 
upon LV's return to the corporal. 

Who else? Who else? 

TK -- Tigerpatronus