yes, but at least Voldemort did “love” his snake.. even gave her a cool name…gave her a nice bubble to sleep in… gave her all sorts of snacks….

I like the list, not necessarily the order, (admit I haven’t read a couple of those) but I don’t like the title of this article. When I saw it on my RSS feed, I was angry that someone put Voldemort on a list of poorly-crafted evil characters. I wouldn’t refer to this list as being of the “worst” bad guys, but describe it as the creators of the list itself did…the scariest!

ScottMan said: “I don’t think Voldemort was supposed to be particularly scary in Book 7. He was losing his power”

?? He was in control of most of the Wizarding world in Britain, the one man he feared was dead, and the one person who could seriously harm him spent most of the book camping—he should have been at his MOST frightening in book 7.

I personnally think Miss Trunchbull and Cruella De Vil are way more frightening than Hook or the White Witch. Maybe because they could exist in some way?

But I do agree about Voldemort. He is abominable, he is an homicidal and genocidal dictator.

Brothers Grim characters scarier then Voldemort, I can understand, however, The Grand High Witch? I thought she was funny.

Eh… Voldemort being one of the “Worst” Literary Villains makes him sound like a whimp… “Best” Literary Villains is IMHO a better title :P

I love that the date is set as 1997 rather than 2007. Just reminded me of how old these books actually are lol.

Just ignore me and my happy little thoughts :P

Voldie should be at the top! He’s worst than the grand high witch and all the tohers, and Captain hook. Anyway, voldie’s not meant to be scary

Christ man. Voldemort could top them all. When I was a kid I remember having a blank face at all the villians on those list but the only one I remember actually hiding under my covers and screaming when my mind played tricks on me and I saw a cloaked man wandering my room. It was Voldemort and I would yell for help every night lol.

I think Voldemort is scary due to his unrelenting harshness, lack of mercy for anyone, no matter how loyal, and his thirst for blood, revenge and general destruction and anarchy… But I’m ok with the White Witch being #1, but I definitely think that Voldemort should be above Captain Hook…

I don’t remember ever being scared by villains as a child… probably because my mother hardly ever let me see or read anything scary, for which I do not thank her, lol… a child needs nightmares, heh.

but i do LOVE how the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is on there… by the way… written by Iam Fleming?!? How could I NOT have known that before?? LOL…. but yeah, that guy, actually, was one of the few things that did creep me out when I was a kid… because of his big nose, and how he can smell you… shiver

The only villain on that list that tops The Dark Lord in my “fear scale” is the wolf from Red Riding Hood, and that’s only because I’m freaking scared of wolves, wear wolves and anything like a wolf. The others are just pitiful in comparison with Voldemort.

I mean: come on! This is the guy who killed his father and his grandparents at age 16! Which one of these people would you least want to come to your house at night? Voldemort! End of question…

Hmm… The White Witch enslaved a land and cast it in eternal winter, and tried to hunt down four lost kids so she could murder them and rule the land forever.
Captain Hook would routinely kill children (with a sword, I might add) with no real agenda other than they annoyed him, tried to feed children to a crocodile, tried to DROWN them, poisoned Peter Pan……

I think you can see where I’m going with this. Villains like this are much scarier to a child, because they target children and they do it maliciously.
Voldemort, as great a villain as he is, just doesn’t tip the scales for me. He targets adults, he is a very stereotypical villain (right down to his appearance), and personally I agree with most of the list.

Not sure I’d rank Cruella de Vil above him though… all she wanted to do was skin a few dogs, hardly the stuff of nightmares (unless you’re an animal rights activist)

I must say, the white witch deserves the spot. She makes me tremble when I read the books. Voldemort deserves a higher rank though. It’s an opinion.

The headline is rather poorly worded, “worst” makes it sound like Voldemort isn’t an effective villain. Which is not what the article was trying to say.