Mugglenet.com's Harry Potter Should Have Died - Emerson Spartz [36]
Fictional criminals just can’t compare. Hannibal Lecter is a cannibal, but he can be captured and locked up for years, just like Grindelwald, the secondary villain in DH. Voldemort is never arrested, and the wizarding world doesn’t even try to catch him. He’s an evil mastermind like Sherlock Holmes’s nemesis Moriarty, elusive and slippery. But Holmes is able to kill Moriarty when they plunge over a waterfall, just as John McClane is able to kill Hans Gruber in Die Hard by pushing him off a building. Voldemort can’t be killed that easily because he’s not exactly human anymore. Voldemort transplants his soul into Horcruxes to help him attain immortality. The Dark Lord multiplies himself to become invincible and to take over society and become a godlike figure, making new laws to favor the purebloods. He’s more on the level of Hitler or Stalin, but with magic.
So what other fictional villains come close to Voldemort? Lex Luthor from Superman or the Joker from Batman? They all seem lightweight beside Voldemort because he is not just a comic-book baddie. He is the most complex super-villain ever created.
Verdict
Voldemort lets nothing stop him from his dastardly plans, and he strikes fear in the wizarding world with his grotesque appearance. Is he a serious contender for most diabolical character of all time? Or is he a cartoonish freak with delusions of world domination who is meant to fail? Verdict: Since Voldemort’s schemes are on such a grand scale (with scales), and his sinister actions are so cold and repulsive, yes, he truly is the most evil fictional character ever.
Is Dumbledore right that Hogwarts “sorts too soon”?
Yes!
There’s nothing worse for a child than being labeled at an early age, so Dumbledore is exactly right that Hogwarts sorts too soon. Dividing the students into houses at age eleven is a terrible way to run a school, since kids that age don’t understand themselves too well and want to please their families and friends. It doesn’t give them much room to change and grow. And the Sorting Hat seems to make a lot of mistakes, such as telling Harry in SS that he needs to be in Slytherin due to the part of Voldemort inside him. Shouldn’t Harry’s heroic spirit and bravery in his own soul count for more than his Slytherin traits? Also, the Sorting Ceremony seems so random and illogical. Look at Peter Pettigrew, who is placed in Gryffindor by the hat, but spends most of his cowardly life hiding behind any bully who will protect him, as we learn in PoA. He has no courage at all, and the hat should have seen that. On the opposite side, we have Regulus Black, who probably asked the Hat to put him in Slytherin to please his pureblood parents, as his brother Sirius says in OotP. But the hat makes a mistake yet again. Regulus is capable of showing compassion to his house-elf and is bold enough to hunt down and try to destroy one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes [DH, p. 196]. He has a lot of courage after all, and should follow Sirius into Gryffindor instead of Slytherin. And forget about Crabbe and Goyle being even the slightest bit cunning or witty. So the Sorting System doesn’t work.
What’s sad is that some students ask the hat to sort them into a house based on wrong or incomplete information. Young Snape thinks Slytherin is the house of brains over brawn (it’s actually Ravenclaw), and believes that his best friend Lily, a Muggle-born, will be put in that house, which is full of pureblood aristocrats. But that can’t ever happen! Harry is told by Hagrid in SS that all the wizards who have gone bad are in Slytherin,