Villains in potterverse

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 116140


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at e...> 
wrote:
> 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. 

Geoff:
I don't consider Boromir to be a villain. He thought that the Ring 
would give him the answer to saving Minas Tirith and Gondor but 
didn't realise the strength of its corrupting influence until it was 
too late. Denethor tried to do something similar with the Palantir 
and was lured into seeing Sauron as all-powerful and unable to be 
beaten and, as a result, descended into despair and madness.

My comparison with Voldemort, apart fom Sauron himself, would be 
Saruman. A man of great wisdom who was seduced by the thought of 
holding power over people and who pawned his greatness and his 
standing with the peoples of Middle Earth for a tawdry pseudo-
relationship with the great arch-enemy of Arda, Sauron himself.

Riddle sought power and pawned his potential greatness for 
unadulterated selfishness and pseudo-immortality.

Geoff
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