The Rise and Fall of LV...(was Re: Wizarding Top Ten

[SeanM]

No: HPFGUIDX 187997


--- Potioncat:
> Bad Guys (those who demonstrated an evil nature,
> or who fought for LV in a significant way)
> Salazar Slytherin
> Tom Riddle
> Grindlewald
> Peter Pettigrew
> Lucius Malfoy
> Bellatrix Black
> Barty Crouch, Jr
> Umbridge
> Greyback
> Crabbe


SeanM:
I disagree about Salazar Slytherin. He lived a thousand
years before Voldemort and there is a strong chance that
his thoughts and philosophy may have been distorted over
time and that he was not a forerunner of Voldemort. He may
have merely opposed muggleborns because he was worried
about the threat the muggle relatives of muggleborns posed
to the school. The Basilisk may have been created to protect
the school rather then to murder students. Besides he was
one of the founders of the school and he had once been good
friends with Godric Gryffindor so he must not have been all
bad.