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10[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Characters/HarryPotterBellatrixLestrange I'm]] going to talk to [[Characters/HarryPotterHermioneJeanGranger this one]]. Girl to Girl"]]
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12->''"Out in the corridor, Frank [Bryce] suddenly became aware that the hand gripping his walking stick was slippery with sweat. [[Characters/HarryPotterLordVoldemort The man with the cold voice]] had killed a woman. He was talking about it without any kind of remorse--with amusement. He was dangerous--a madman. And he was planning more murders--this boy, Harry Potter, whoever he was--was in danger."''
13-->--''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''
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15The darkness and evil of the [[Franchise/HarryPotter Wizarding World]] is personified by [[CompleteMonster these psychotic and disturbing foes]] that [[Characters/HarryPotterHarryJamesPotter Harry Potter]] and others have been forced to deal with.
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17![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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20* [[Characters/HarryPotterLordVoldemort Lord Voldemort]], born [[EvilCounterpart Tom Marvolo Riddle]], is a sociopath who [[EvilCannotComprehendGood refuses to accept love]]. Obsessed with becoming all-powerful and immortal, Voldemort murdered people to rip his own soul apart and create Horcruxes, even knowing how dangerous that can be. Of those murdered were his Muggle [[{{Patricide}} father]] and grandparents, whose deaths he framed his maternal uncle for. Beginning his career proper as a Hogwarts pupil, he opened the Chamber of Secrets to let a monster loose on Hogwarts to murder all Muggle-born students, while amassing [[Characters/HarryPotterDeathEaters a cult of loyal "friends"]] to do his bidding. Deeming Muggles and Muggle-born Wizards lesser than "pure-bloods", [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Voldemort]] waged a genocidal war against them, [[BoomerangBigot despite being a half-blood himself]]. Learning of a prophecy that foretold his defeat, Voldemort murders the Title Character's parents before trying to kill baby Harry himself. Upon his return he resumes his genocide, eventually turning Magical Britain into a fascist state while trying to kill Harry no matter how many innocents or allies had to die first, even murdering the seemingly loyal Severus Snape the second he believes doing so would grant him greater power. [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Subverting any possible tragic childhood]], it was Voldemort's unyielding choice to pursue power and hurt anyone who got in the way that defined him, set him as Harry's opposite and earned him his place as the most feared and hated Wizard for a thousand years.
21* [[DarkActionGirl Bellatrix Lestrange]] is a psychopathic [[Characters/HarryPotterDeathEaters Death Eater]] who seems to be motivated primarily by her desire to inflict as much pain on as many people as possible [[PsychoSupporter in the name of Voldemort's cause]]. Bellatrix, [[PsychopathicWomanchild gleeful cruelty]] incarnate, has a special fondness for torturing people with the Cruciatus curse, and tortured Neville Longbottom's parents to the point where they exist in near-comas, and will never recognize their own son again; she is also an accomplished arsonist, burning down multiple residences basically just for the sake of it. Bellatrix is the cause of death for half of her non-Death-Eater family members, including her cousin Sirius Black and her niece Nymphadora Tonks, as well as Dobby, and delights in the torment these deaths cause.
22* [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Dolores Jane Umbridge]] is a domineering and abusive matron figure and a bureaucrat whose pettiness and personal failings cause catastrophic harm to those under her control, all while maintaining a [[SugaryMalice kind, grandmotherly veneer]]. In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'', she becomes a [[SadistTeacher teacher at Hogwarts]] and forces students who speak up against the [[Characters/HarryPotterMinistryOfMagic Ministry of Magic]]--or who just displease her--to use the Blood Quill, which uses the writer's blood as ink and can result in permanent scarring. At one point she threatens to use the illegal Cruciatus curse, which has been shown to cause unimaginable pain, and reveals that she sent the two Dementors after Harry and his cousin. In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'', she willingly supports the Death Eater-controlled Ministry, and holds hastily rushed and sadistic trials against Muggle-borns, where she accuses them of stealing magic and gleefully sentences them to the Potter-verse's worst fate, the soul-stealing Dementor's Kiss.
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25* [[PsychoForHire Fenrir Greyback]] is a savage werewolf who enthusiastically supports Voldemort's regime for the chance to indulge his violent nature. Unlike many other werewolves, Fenrir relishes in turning others--such as Remus Lupin--and ruining their lives. Fenrir especially has a disturbing fondness for attacking [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. In addition, Fenrir is [[ImAHumanitarian a cannibal]] in both human and wolf form, and expresses a desire to eat Harry in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' after savagely mauling Bill Weasley and leaving him for dead. Fenrir even states he participates in the attack to get his claws on as many children as he can. In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'', Fenrir serves Voldemort's regime by helping in rounding up the "unclean" wizards or those who will not submit and expresses a desire to eat Hermione after Bellatrix is finished torturing her.
26* ''[[https://www.wizardingworld.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/ilvermorny Illvermony School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]]'': [[PredecessorVillain Gormlaith Gaunt]] is Lord Voldemort's distant cousin from the 17th century, sharing all of his ruthlessness, [[FantasticRacism bigotry]], and devotion to the bloodline of Salazar Slytherin. Murdering both her own estranged sister and brother-in-law for helping their Muggle neighbors, Gormlaith [[EvilAunt adopts her 5-year-old niece Isolt]] and spends the next twelve years psychologically torturing her, even [[ForcedToWatch forcing the child to watch]] as she used dark magic on animals and innocent Muggles. When Isolt flees to America and starts a family with a Muggle husband, Gormlaith hatches a plan to repeat the entire process again by trying to slaughter the couple and kidnap her great-nieces, who would be subjected to the same horrors that their mother had to endure.
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29* [[DirtyCoward Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew]] is one of the most despicable characters in the series despite being the lowest-ranking member of Voldemort's inner circle. [[Characters/HarryPotterMarauders Once a slimy agent]] of the [[Characters/HarryPotterOrderOfThePhoenixMembers Order of the Phoenix]] with a vehement belief in [[IFightForTheStrongestSide being on the winning team]], Wormtail defected to the Death Eaters by revealing the location of the Potters--James having been [[EvilFormerFriend one of his best friends since Hogwarts]]--to his new master, resulting in the death of Harry's parents. After the end of the First Wizarding War, Wormtail escapes retribution by [[FrameUp framing his other friend]], Sirius Black, for his own betrayal and the massacre of thirteen people, leaving him to rot in Azkaban for twelve years. Returning and conspiring to resurrect the dark lord, Wormtail coldly murders Cedric Diggory before performing a ritual to restore Voldemort's power, effectively starting the Second Wizarding War just so he could hide behind the dark lord's back again.
30* ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire The Goblet of Fire]]'': [[PsychoSupporter Bartemius "Barty" Crouch Junior]], [[AdaptationalVillainy lacking any of his novel counterpart's pathos or sympathy]], is a [[AxCrazy twitching madman]] who participated in the nightmarish torture of Frank and Alice Longbottom to [[DrivenToMadness drive them incurably insane]]. Escaping Azkaban and tending to Voldemort, Crouch [[{{Patricide}} murders his own father]] and sets up the revival of Voldemort upon the world so that the Dark Lord may enact his purges and tyrannical rule.
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33* Patricia Rakepick is a Dark Witch seeking the power of the Cursed Vaults for herself and the organization known as "R". During Jacob's time at Hogwarts, Rakepick would work with Jacob in finding the Cursed Vaults, only to betray Jacob by willingly leaving him [[AndIMustScream trapped]] in a [[PortalPicture portrait world]] within the Fifth Vault upon fleeing from the dragon guarding it. Resurfacing in Hogwarts in 1987, Rakepick would pose as a Curse-Breaker and use this position to gain the trust of [[PlayerCharacter Jacob's sibling]] and their friends, with the goal of using them as expendable bait for the dragon. After revealing her true colors at the end of the Fifth Year, Rakepick callously subjects Merula Snyde to the [[ColdBloodedTorture Cruciatus Curse]] multiple times and would have killed her had it not been for the intervention of Jacob's Sibling. Returning in the Sixth Year, Rakepick would launch an ambush in the Forbidden Forest and kill Rowan Khanna with a killing curse meant for Ben Cooper. When defeated at the end of Year Six, she displays no remorse for Rowan's murder, claiming that Rowan [[NeverMyFault brought it on themselves]] by diving in harm's way.

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