Voldemort Essay

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Imagine sitting at your dinner table, calmly munching on your food. Abruptly, the suitors from Homer’s Odyssey, and Voldemort from “Harry Potter” appear out of nowhere, so of course you scream as the suitors eat the food off of your plate and Voldemort starts casting the killing curse. Which one do you scream at though? Is it the suitors in which you shreek? Or Voldemort? Regardless of which villain it is, they are both villains which means that they are both heartless people who think it is their duty to do horrendous deeds. The person of the two that is further devoted to doing disastrous deeds is Voldemort from J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” which is one of the numerous reasons that he is a better villain than the suitors
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Notably, the suitors are dreadfully disrespectful. Their impoliteness is shown when James Davidson’s article in “The Guardian” states, “Then one of the beggars who was accustomed to feeding off the scraps of the suitors left, asked if he could try his hand. The suitors laughed, but were amazed to see him string the bow with ease and fire it all the way through the 12 axes,” (Davidson 1). Them laughing at the beggar’s suggestion displays how they think that because he is so low ranking socially, he is also not skilled. This is disrespectful because they were proved wrong when this beggar, a disguised Odysseus, succeeds at what they all have failed to do. Though the suitors are disrespectful, Voldemort is dastardly devious. A great example that exemplifies his deviousness is when Mikhail Lyubansky, a Ph.D. of Psychology at the University of Illinois, presents, “Into the long-standing culture of dislike, Voldemort, through his control of the Ministry of Magic, introduced a variety of new laws intended to isolate and marginalize half-bloods and their supporters and remove half-bloods from all positions of authority, including at Hogwarts,” (Lyubansky 6). Getting rid of half-bloods everywhere show how he is devious because being devious is when someone does

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