[HPforGrownups] Re: Villains in potterverse

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 116117

Meri: 
Like I said above, the minions are the ones that are 
frightening, and also interesting. I always thought that Denethor 
and Boromir in LotR were far more compelling vilians than Sauron, 
just because they were so human, just like I can care about Darth 
Vader's fall and redemption. I just can't see LV having a Vader like 
redemtion scene, but then again JK has surprised us before!

Meri 

Sherry now:

I agree.  I never thought Voldemort was anything like Vader.  Vader had a
loving home till he was ten and then went to study to become a Jedi.  His
anger took over, when he was an adult, and his mother was kidnapped tortured
and died.  Very different circumstances from Tom Riddle/Voldemort.  I see
Voldemort almost like a force of evil, as sauron, rather than particularly
evil himself.  Yes, I know Sauron was evil, but his followers were deadly.
He's not scary in any way to me, except in what his minions will do for him.
I find him the most boring character in the whole series.  I am not one bit
interested in what made him go bad.  I don't care if he's ever redeemed.
The less book time given over to Tom's poor childhood and making excuses for
him because of that, the happier I'll be.  The deatheaters are scary,
because they actually do things, torture, murder, betrayal.  If there's a
puppet master, it's Voldemort, but he's not a very clever or smart one,
except in knowing how to use the weaknesses of others to get them to do his
will.

Sherry G