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[nocturnus33]

I trully felt that Voldemort gain the worst dialogues award in fandom. At least in HG/SS ship. Really.

"That senile old fool has disgraced Hogwarts once again by making this filthy Mudblood Head Girl. I plan to show Dumbledore my displeasure at his choice. Tomorrow is Christmas. The staff of Hogwarts will awake to see the mutilated corpse of this Mudblood donning Hogwarts' gates. I will personally owl her heart to the Headmaster, myself. They will soon learn that no Mudblood is safe from us. Not even in Hogwarts," Voldemort triumphantly stated.

Even evil people swore they are good, so there is no need to have this blatant maniac speech.

I'd met torturers (People who torture?) and they talk like normal people. You could even find them "nice" if you didn't know better.

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[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

The writing's utterly abysmal too. Any one who writes "..." X stated - needs to go back to school. The only word you need is "said".

Mind, I've seen loads of supposedly good fics where Snape talks like nothing human, too. Most of this can be prevented by a simple read aloud before posting.

[nocturnus33]

The writing's utterly abysmal

Well, that is the real evil.

I discovered today your ficlet about Snape accent. I love it. You are so good making inscapes, describing inner worlds and emotions.

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Though at 3000+ words, it's not exactly a ficlet. I've seen whole chapters at 700 words!

[telosphilos.livejournal.com]

The thing that a lot of younger readers, and well, people in general like to forget is what is supposed to be the most horrific is the simple fact that Voldie is a human being. A human being simply being capable of such attrocities is really far more horrifying then any monster ever created out of the human imagination. We know it does happen. We call men monsters to deny their humanity when we are trying to convict them. After all, do we really want to recognize the capacity for evil within ourselves even if it is still a lesser capacity then the example of evil in front of us?

[nocturnus33]

Exactly.

I teached a few kids which their lovely grandparents were involved in Human rights trial, a lot of them are now convicted. Those kids adored their grandpa. I have no doubt they might had been family men.

My aunt had as a neighbor a Nazi, Walter Rauff. He used to be head of Department II of the Reich Security Main Office! He has a normal life as much as my aunt tell (I'd never saw him, I was a little girl by then). That doesn't mean he wasn't an awful killer.

Some friends that were tortured told me they never thought human kind were capable of such cruelty. The awfull thing was that they might well been people you cross at the supermarket.Torturers at the end of the day went home and play nice, an have a public face to show.

They don't crackle evilly while driving the car.

By portraing this things as a phsyco madmen we are tempt to forget evilness is more subtle and nearest than we think.

[telosphilos.livejournal.com]

Yes, the devil you can see is no where near as dangerous as the one you don't. True evil is rarely so blatant as fictional evil is presented to be. We do ourselves a disservice by forgetting that.