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What House Was Hagrid In Before Harry Potter? - Looper
There are a ton of lovable, unforgettable characters to be found in the wizarding world of "Harry
Looper
16 hours ago
Column: The never-ending appeal of the British Bad Guy
With 'Say Nothing' and 'The Diplomat,' Rory Kinnear enters the pantheon of British villains. Our columnist explains why we never tire of the archetype.
Los Angeles Times
12 hours ago
Sep 28, 2015 · J.K. Rowling is the master of crafting good characters, evil characters, and everything in between. Harry Potter is stocked full of both heroes and villains, though the villains definitely vary ...
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Sep 1, 2024 · Umbridge, one of the main villains of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is placed by Cornelius Fudge as the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, where her job is to spy on Dumbledore and report to Fudge. She eventually usurps Dumbledore's position to become headmistress and constantly antagonizes Harry to discredit him.
- Kit Bowen
- DOLORES UMBRIDGE. Finally, we come to the one Harry Potter character we truly despise the most (and one author J.K. Rowling probably had the most fun creating because she could just go there).
- LAVENDER BROWN. Oh boy, is Lavender Brown one grating individual. She is the epitome of the needy and clingy girlfriend, and poor Ron gets stuck with her because he really doesn't know any better (he will know better soon enough, though).
- GILDEROY LOCKHART. Talk about being self-centered, Gilderoy Lockhart takes the cake. Gaining celebrity status in the wizarding world for writing books about his many encounters with dark creatures, Lockhart loves to shine in the spotlight.
- PETER PETTIGREW. Peter Pettigrew quite fittingly suits his Animagnus form; he is an ugly rat for betraying his Hogwarts BFFs James and Lily Potter and for framing Sirius Black for the deed, along with his own faked murder and for the 12 Muggles Peter killed during his escape.
- Voldemort. Just as Harry Potter is now counted among popular culture's best "chosen one" heroes alongside the likes of Luke Skywalker and Frodo Baggins, Voldemort will forever be mentioned along with pop culture's most notorious villains.
- Gellert Grindelwald. The "Harry Potter" saga has been seen as an allegory about the fight against injustice since it hit bookshelves back in 1997. Many fans have picked up on what seem like clear parallels between the rise of bigotry-based authoritarianism in our own world history (particularly, the events of World War II and the Holocaust) and in the Wizarding World.
- Bellatrix Lestrange. "Harry Potter" fans are told of the evil exploits of two dark, magical, would-be dictators throughout the books, movies, and plays that cover the story in its entirety.
- Peter Pettigrew. Audiences first meet Ron's pet rat Scabbers in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." But then "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" contains the surprise revelation that the scraggly rodent who's prone to biting his master is none other than Peter Pettigrew, the one-time member of the Marauders (along with James Potter, Remus Lupin, and Sirius Black).
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- Dementors. Absolutely no motivations except a hunger for a soul is what drives these cloaked monstrosities. Nothing is scarier than that, except their faceless appearance with a gaping hole to use against their victims.
- Dolores Umbridge. Black is the Death Eaters color. Pink is the armor of Umbridge, with a too realistic hatefulness hiding beneath her hyper-femininity.
- Draco Malfoy. Voldemort may be considered Harry’s polar opposite, the two seen as moralistic yin and yang, but what about Draco? Unlike Voldemort and many of the other villains in the film series, Draco (Tom Felton) and Harry have drifted through each other’s lives in school since their first year at Hogwarts.
- Lord Voldemort. With his penchant for screaming out inaudible sounds, the Dark Lord was so deadly and sure of his invincibility, he walked around barefoot when he regained human form.
Oct 24, 2014 · J.K. Rowling just announced a short story centered around Dolores Umbridge, whom many consider to be one of the most evil Potter characters and whom Rowling herself referred to as "a nasty piece ...
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Some of them go bad. ~ Hagrid to Harry. Villains from J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World , mostly from the Harry Potter series, which also includes the books, movies, and even the video games.
