Scary Characters

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> Sartoris22 wrote:

> >I find the Riddle of book 6 the scariest character,
> >particularly when he's at the orphanage. To contemplate
> >the birth of evil is quite unsettling to me. I wonder if
> >the young Riddle could have been saved, was there any
> >capacity for love at all.
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> >That's really scary to me. He seemed to be a complete
> >preteen sociopath-- a frightening thought.
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Heather wrote:
> going to Hogwarts was probably the worse thing that could
> have ever happened to him. Though, he could have just ended
> up as a horrible serial killer in the muggle world, he was
> so full of hatred.


Greetings!

This thread has been very interesting! Yes I do believe that
the Book6/Riddle was indeed scary ... a pre-teen pschopath ...
absolutely! Seeing the de-humanization of Tom Riddle was
chilling.

In another post Sister Mary Lunatic mentioned Fudge. I see
Fudge more as a myopic, dangerous power-hungry ineffectual
bureaucrat ... Infuriating to be sure! Not scary per se but
definitely pathetic!

But the character that I find truly terrifying is Greyback
... His deliberate, savage, cruel victimization of innocent,
helpless children ... he maims them for life ... his
deliberate cruelty is so completely unforgivable it makes
me shudder.

The Carrows fall into this catagory (but not to such an
intense degree) because they too prey upon the young and
defensless...they are nasty pieces of work to be sure.

JMHO
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