Villains in potterverse

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 116143


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> Oh. 
> Not for me.
> 
> TR is just a snide teenager, most of the DEs are fairly standard
> heavies -  thuggish  rather than evil, and Bella - well, in the past
> I've had girl-friends that were more frightening than she is.
> 
> More could be made of other characters, I think.
> 
> Am I the only one that sees more than a touch of Uriah Heap in
> Ollivander? or O'Brien (from 1984) in Lucius?
> 


Alla:

I am not saying that they cannot be scarier, just that they are scary 
enough.

For snide teenager Riddle did a pretty good job with Ginny's mind , 
don't you think?

Innocent child became an unwilling dispenser of evil in Hogwarts. I 
think Riddle is OK as villain