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Harry Potter fans everywhere all grew up with different aspects of the franchise. Whether it be the Harry Potter Books or Movies, generation after generation has discovered the Wizarding World in different ways. So pending on your introduction, or how you consumed the material, you may have a different view on who the best villain is in the Harry Potter universe. So today we take a look and rank the very best Harry Potter villains throughout the series.
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You literally live in a magical world
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and there's still like people who are more wealthy. It's like, dude, this make more money
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My god. Hey, guys, I'm Jack O'Shea. And I'm Mikayla Pascal. And this is Ranked vs. Ranked, the show where we each rank
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our top five favorite things about an exciting topic, and then you tell us who made the best list
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Today, Mikayla, we're going to be ranking the top five worst Harry Potter villains
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Harry Potter? Harry Potter. Harry Potter, the boy who lived. When you think about it, you're like, well
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there aren't that many villains. You're like, well, there's Voldemort. Even besides Voldemort, it's like there's
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There's a lot of people who are just kind of dicks in Harry Potter. Yeah. Where it's like, this guy wasn't that bad
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He didn't kill anyone. He wasn't, yeah, but it was like. But he's a villain in my book
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I wouldn't want to be friends with that guy. You don't have to be just such a d***bag all the time. For real. Yeah
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It just kind of kills the vibe. We will be speaking in British accents, right, baby? For sure
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That's how the British say for sure. I am a huge Harry Potter fan
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I know. That shocked me when I first met you. Every Harry Potter nerd's like, what
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Okay, my number five is Gilderoy Lockhart. Ooh, are you talking about Witch Weekly's eight-time winner of Best Smile
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Well, I don't talk about that. I didn't get rid of the band and banshee by smiling at him
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I love that it's like in this universe. It's like, we've got People Magazine sexy as man alive
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He's just kind of a dick. He's a fraud. You know what, ladies? We don't fall for frauds
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Well, it's funny that you say that because the entire movie and book, it's them falling for him
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Until, yeah. He can erase people's minds. Like at the end he's a coward
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Like everything he's doing, he's doing just like for financial gain. I guess at the expense of the people
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whose minds he erases. At the beginning, he's written his new book, his memoir, Magical Me
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One of my favorite things about all of Harry Potter is how much the wizards reference magic
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When it like this is your world Everybody has magic Like this shouldn be something to talk about It It be funny if we were like we have Grocery Weekly Okay my number five is the big baddie
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and it feels weird putting him at number five, but there's just so many great villains. Lord Voldemort is my number five
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You gotta put him on there. In every single book in some form or another
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he's evil as s***. Because he was born, his father was tricked by his mother
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because she kept on feeding him love potion. He basically was born without the ability to love
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He's done crazy damage. He's like the worst guy ever. But it's not like really his fault in a way
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Like he can't feel love or like kindness. He doesn't know. It's just boys being boys
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It's just boys. Okay, just locker room talk. We can boil all of Lord Voldemort down to just boys being boys
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This is what men do. This is men stuff. Yeah, men stuff
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Mates. Stop trying to cancel Baltimore. Come on, guys. Come on, he's just a dude doing his best
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He's just like him and the Death Eaters, the boys. The boys. The boys
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That's how he calls them, by the way. Everybody thinks it's by touching the dark mark
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But it's not actually that. What he does, he goes, boys. Yeah, the movies didn't show that
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But it's in the books. It's in the books. My number four is Peter Pettigrew. Ooh, Wormtail
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He's just kind of a weak link. And he sucks for that. Yeah
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The whole him hiding as a rat thing and hanging out with an underage boy
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is a story for another day. but it's weird, you know? He's literally a rat. He's literally a rat, he's a flip-flopper
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he has no loyalty. If you are just scared, that's fine, but if you're putting others in danger in your place
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because you're scared, f**k you. That's like the worst thing you can do
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Okay, my number four is Lucius Malfoy, who's been on another episode, I think
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of our favorite movie villains. Yeah. Because I just can't get enough of Lucius Malfoy
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The Malfoys are like a generationally rich wizard family UK is so class heavy already A lot of Harry Potter outside of like the Voldemort being a dick magic It class warfare where Harry starts off
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you know, really poor and destitute. And then we find out that his parents actually had a ton of money too
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The Weasleys are so poor. It's not much, but it's home. And they kind of are juxtaposed with the Malfoys
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And guess which one's good and which one's evil. Draco would never be on my list
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because Draco's really a victim in the whole thing. Yeah. It's like you literally live in a magical world and there's still like people who are more wealthy. It's like dude make more money
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My goal print more money Who is your number three my number three is Bellatrix Lestrange
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That's also my number three before Harry Potter when people talk about witches She's the most like a stereotypical witch. This is like the definition of how I feel like all Harry Potter villains should be
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Lucius Malfoy It's like okay clearly a lot of it is like you're a dick and you're afraid
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She seems to be one of the ones where it's like, no, no, you agree with what Baldub would say
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Yeah. And so she did a lot of the dirty work with pleasure, torturing the long bottoms
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If you had to give one nomination, one Oscar nomination in the Harry Potter series
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besides Lucius Malfoy, I think she would be the consensus. Like, no, she did the best acting wise
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She is a boss. We do have to say that. We should do an episode of Ranking Girl Bosses
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My number two, I'm going to have to go with the Dursleys. That's a really good answer
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They are just, they're kind of real-life villains, is what they are. They're evil to their poor nephew, whose parents just died
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Taking in your nephew, or anyone for that matter, and just like, abusing them, is pretty f***ing evil
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Having this like, evil cousin that like, has to live there. Hey Harry, you live under the f***ing stairs
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Yeah, Dudley gets all these presents, we spoil him, you give f***ing nothing and you clean up afterwards. Yeah
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The Dursley up until Harry goes to Hogwarts are like what the f Yeah I say that actually now that I think about it too a plot hole in Harry Potter is that Harry should have some PTSD from being mistreated that much He way too trusting of adults considering his influences growing up
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Okay, my number two, and this is kind of a hot take, Severus Snape. This is a huge hot take on it, especially in the fan community, because it's like, okay
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was Severus Snape a good guy or a bad guy? In the end, we learned that Severus Snape had been acting as a double agent for Dumbledore
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without Severus, Harry could have never beaten Voldemort. Here's my argument for why actually Severus Snape is a villain
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He could have done all of that and not been an absolute f***hole to one kid
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because he hated that kid's father, who, by the way, died. He just abuses him for years
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And then at the end, just because he was helping Dumbledore... You shouldn't work at school
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No, they shouldn't work at school. We shouldn't be giving kids wands
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One of the reasons why he hated Harry's dad because he was so in love with Harry's mom
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and so he joins the wizard version of the Nazi party because of that? What
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And we're all just like, he was in love. No, who gives a
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She doesn't like it back, find another girl. We've all been rejected. We've all been rejected
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All right, what's your number one? My number one is Dolores Umbridge. She's my number one too. Honestly, it makes sense, she's the worst
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She's a corporate . The actress who plays her is so good and so hateable the way she plays her
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She's very good at playing this, like, I'm very put together and nice, but evil
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It's so off-putting. Later, she works with the Voldemort government regime, but she wasn't like, oh, I'm a death eater
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She was just like, I'm just a sadistic, terrible person, and then I'm going to take this 12-year-old boy and make him carve into his hand
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I'm going to say it. I feel like confusing kids, but maybe don't work at a school. Maybe don't. Maybe do
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But maybe don't. But probably don't. Peep away from me