Villains in potterverse

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 116115


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> 
> I had been thinking. As some posters probably know, I don't 
find  Voldemort to be a very convincing villain. Oh, sure , I hate 
what he stands for , because JKR tells us so, but as a character 
I don't  have strong feelings about him.
>

Hmm...well, if I understand the argument you've been making on 
the Lupin as metaphor thread, then it's no wonder you don't find 
Voldemort scary, because his greatest power is one that you 
don't acknowledge. You said, I believe,  that there is a line decent 
people won't cross. 

IMO, the scary thing about Voldemort is that he's very good at  
getting  decent people to cross that line. As Sirius says, 
"he can control people so that they do terrible things without 
being able to stop themselves."--GoF 27.  Like Sauron's ring, he 
has the power to corrupt people of strength and good purpose.


Look at Ginny. She didn't know what she was doing at first but 
she knew the Diary was dangerous when she threw it away.   Yet 
she stole it back, willingly putting herself into the power of 
Slytherin's Heir. Her belief that no decent person could be made 
to do what she'd already done made her think no decent person 
could forgive her.

Pippin