godserpent

A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he'll keep to any deal you strike with him.

You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore? Above such brutality, are you?

Sarah Michelle Gellar as Kathryn Merteuil

Tom Marvolo Riddle (Lord Voldemort)

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

Merope was truly a dark wizard. As a descendant of Salazar Slytherin, as well as his direct heiress, this girl suffered humiliation from her own family almost all her life. But at some point everything stopped. At some point, something jumped in the head of young Gaunt. And soon she was drinking one of the most beautiful and richest muggles Amortentia, wanting to create her own loving family. But in the end, she created only a monster, which to this day destroys many innocent souls.

— Tom Riddle, back in his school years, formed a kind of social circle, — said Professor Slughorn with regret, — which included both weak wizards, like Rosier, who needed a strong patron, and ambitious ones, like Lestrange and Mulsiber. But the most terrible of them were aggressive guys like Macnair or Antonin Dolohov, who later joined them. They also demanded an ambitious leader who would channel their anger and energy in the right direction. And so it happened. Horace sighed heavily, trying not to meet Potter's gaze. — Subsequently, they all became the first «Death Eaters». And I have not yet mentioned Avery, Malfoy and many, many other dark wizards who at one time practically destroyed the wizarding community of Great Britain.

Dolohov belonged to that special part of the Devourers who never felt fear of the Dark Lord. He was driven by something more... To cause people indescribable pain, to enjoy their suffering. Antonin did not even wear the so-called mask behind which the others were hiding. He was not afraid that he would be recognized — on the contrary, he strove for it. "He even kills slowly... watch out for him!" — said one of the wizards. A true sadist, exiled from Durmstrang, he dreamed of finding an application for his talents and abilities. And he knew only one thing — to kill. Perhaps that is why Voldemort set him up as an example, because in fact he found an excellent fighter, whom he entrusted with the most difficult tasks with which he successfully coped. And Dolohov... Dolohov got what he always wanted — an endless battlefield and an authoritarian leader, whom he would follow to the darkest depths of Hell, if necessary.

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things — terrible, yes, but great.

Imagine that Voldemort's powerful now. You don't know who his supporters are, you don't know who's working for him and who isn't; you know he can control people so that they do terrible things without being able to stop themselves.

Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam our land, there is none more curious or more deadly than the Basilisk, known also as the King of Serpents. This snake, which may reach gigantic size and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken’s egg, hatched beneath a toad. Its methods of killing are most wondrous, for aside from its deadly and venomous fangs, the Basilisk has a murderous stare, and all who are fixed with the beam of its eye shall suffer instant death.

— Did I know I'd just met the most dangerous dark wizard of all time? No.

— Didn't you say You-Know-Who's got a snake, Harry? A massive one? You saw it the night he returned, didn't you?

They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.

Did you think I was dead? You are mistaken. I am more alive than all the living. Death means nothing else.

He was the only one. He was everything to her. Bella wanted to give him everything. And even more. Subsequently, she became the most faithful companion, following his bloody path.