Lord Voldemort isn’t scary at all

Gor lumme!

The other night Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was on TV. I had something better to do (but only just) and had it on in the background. Okay, I admit, I did end up watching quite a bit of it.

I guess on the whole it was good fun apart from a few things which really struck me:

1. The actors playing the ‘children’ are all now well into their 30s.
2. I wanted to beat up Ron Weasley.
3. Ron has great hair now (hence #2).
4. Hermione Granger is no longer the smoldering sexpot she was at 11 years old.
5. Voldemort didn’t look very scary at all. He was just an average bloke with quite bad teeth and a couple of fish gills instead of a nose.

Here is absolute proof that the creative people behind Harry Potter need to sharpen their ideas up quick smart on old Voldee. It shouldn’t be this easy to makeover the Lord of Evil (someone apparently so scary that everyone shits themselves if his name is merely spoken):

Throw in a tan, some soothing music and massage for the grimace, and we’ve got a serious new threat to Brad Pitt’s fast-wrinkling mantle of number one hottie.

But seriously, I figured out almost instantly the look they were going for. Cast your minds back to the year 2000 and the Christmas horror that was How the Grinch Stole Christmas: