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It’s Death Eater related art, mostly Bellatrix and Rodolphus and Lucius. 🖤

Voldemort:

Voldemort is cruel when it’s necessary, but he can show mercy, and he is quite forgiving with his Death Eaters. He can be cruel to the only person he cares about (Bellatrix), but not in a destructive way. However, he’s the type of people who pretend he likes and respects you, and then has his snake slaughter you. He manipulated everybody, and Bellatrix too. And he feels no remorse about it. He created an army of inferi and he’s absolutely without conscience.

Bellatrix is cruel to everybody, including the people she loves. Except Voldemort. She killed her sister’s daughter! It was ordered by Voldemort, yes, but she also killed her cousin, Sirius. She loves torturing, and doesn’t need a good reason. She killed a cute little fox for no reason at all! Voldemort killed Billy Stubbs’s rabbit to hurt the boy (and maybe because he was jealous!). Bellatrix would never show mercy to a Muggle boy the way Voldemort did at Godric’s Hollow. And we all know it was her idea to find the Longbottoms, and she’s probably the one who tortured Alice and Frank the most. On another level, she has no problems with humiliating her husband by showing her sexual desire for Voldemort in public.

She really only shows kindness to Narcissa, but we know her kindness is conditional. Bellatrix would probably have killed her after discovering her betrayal. Voldemort is really the only person she doesn’t hurt. On the contrary, she shows an unparalleled level of kindness and devotion to him. It only shows she’s capable of love, and yet she’s without conscience or remorse with everybody else. Moreover, she was a privileged girl. She had everything. Voldemort had nothing. She doesn’t even have the excuse of a sad childhood.

I excluded Fenrir because he’s more beast than man, Umbridge because she’s a lesser evil, Dumbledore because his cruelty is both necessary and not something that brings him pleasure, and James because he’s of course just a little shit.

I forgot to include Barty in the list, but is he crueller than Bellatrix? Barty was younger, and more perversely groomed, in a more damaging way than the older Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Rabastan. He did kill his father who saved him from Azkaban, which is… extremely cruel. Everything he did to impersonate Madeye was on orders of Voldemort, and even if he took pleasure in them, it doesn’t compare with Bellatrix’s sadistic nature. But I’ll admit that the two of them are probably very close in terms of cruelty.

I really can’t decide between Voldemort, the cruellest one who still spared a Muggle boy, and Bellatrix, who killed her sister’s daughter.

I'm bewildered how it's a published book (who knew you could do that... I'm jealous I guess) but it's obviously just a fun children's book so it's not very offensive (LOL) like I was afraid it was going to be. It refers to him almost invariably as "Tom" which I find in bad taste but I think it's because the book is partly sort of a joke and "Tom" sounds sillier or more lighthearted than "Voldemort." Like it's not a literary analysis where it "matters" what the real name of the character is; it's for entertainment, for a younger audience.

It's not all these jokes, it's mostly "analysis" of the books, but it's not very complex and not super accurate or well-articulated, like there are lots of Tumblr metas that are better written. And I think it's for children because of sections like this that seem to be advising the reader on morals as if for children:

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