[HPforGrownups] Villains in potterverse

[annegirl11 at juno.com]

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Alla said:
> Do you guys find that JKR's villains or I should qualify, Death 
> Eaters are scary?

Oh. my. god. YES. Ever since I read Maus when I was 14, I've had these
recurring nightmares of invasion by a Nazi-like army of evil bigots. It
isn't always Nazis; depending on what I've been watching, it's fundie
aliens, fundie demons, fundie rednecks, or more recently, fundie wizards.
The riot in GoF gave me horrible nightmares for days, and Lucius
terrifies me because of the depth of all manner of evil that he's capable
of. And I mean that in a good way - it's a good book that can scare me
that much. But still. <shudder>

Voldemort occasionally scares me, or maybe more specifically, creeps me
out. He's like an X Files baddie: nine ways of disturbing. Wanting to
kills mudbloods at 12 years old? Parasite on the back of someone's head,
doing god knows what to the guy's mind? Little fetal malformed demon
thing? Ewwwwwwwww. 

Umbridge annoyed me more than scared me. She was just rediculous. Same
with Bellatrix. I despise her because she's just... over-the-top. Though,
ok, I guess her shrill maddness is a little shivers-down-the-spine, and
she did kill my boyfriend's boyfriend.

So, yeah, the DEs take the cake as HP baddies. I'm a gay athiest woman
living near farmland in a <OT political comment> country, so militantly
fundie humans who have *chosen* to be evil scare me a lot more than any
evil overlord.

> I find Graveyard scene to be quite chilling, but that is because I 
> think that Harry's suffering is masterfully conveyed. Voldemort is 
> still rather cartoonish there.

I can't WAIT to see that scene on-screen -- it's gonna rock so much.
Remember the creepyness of the dead unicorn bit in the Forbidden Forrest?
It'll be like that, turned up to 11.

Aura

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