some scary stuff

[Athena Appleton]

I'm trying to figure out how to do a poll, and also was wondering: which do you think is the scariest part of the Harry Potter books? Why?

J.K. Rowling stated in an interview that she's terrified by Tom Riddle's diary. She said that at the time she wrote that, she wasn't aware of internet chat rooms, but has since realized that Tom Riddle's diary really isn't that far removed from today's internet chat rooms. A young girl spilling her heart out to a total stranger she can't see, the stranger writing back, and abusing her trust...

[Alice I]

I looked at the list a couple of times and I think that Voldemort's return was the scariest.
The fight in the Department of mysteries seemed more of an action sequence to me as I read it. It was definatly faster paced.
The dementors are scary too but the sheer discription of Voldemorts rising was to me the scariest thing she has written yet.
This could be a classic film moment if they do it properly.

The way Harry kept praying "Let it have drowned, Let it have gone wrong" Then as Voldemort rose up out of that steaming cauldron I could picture it quite vividly.

The thin man stepped out of the cauldron, staring at Harry... and Harry stared back into the face that had haunted his nightmares for three years. Whiter than a skull, with wide, livid scarlet eyes and a nose that was flat as a snake's with slits for nostrils...
Lord Voldemort had risin again.

*shivers*

[Ferrus]

I agree with Alice about the scariest moment, the return of Voldemort is, in my opinion the scariest bit that JKR has writtten, although the fight with the basilisk made me extremely nevous, until harry pulled the sword from the Sorting Hat

[Fool on the hill]

When I think about Tom Riddle's diary, it really scares me, for the given reasons. But what frightened me most at the moment I read it was Voldemort's return. And when the basilisk's tooth pierced Harry's arm (it was the arm, wasn't it?) and he wonders if this is what it is like to die. Maybe that was only very sad, not *really* scary.

[Athena Appleton]

I didn't mean to vote for Aragog...

I'd say the scariest moment for me is a tie between Riddle's diary and the Dark Mark at the World Cup... for some reason, the whole sequence from the time there's a commotion outside until they're all safely back in the tent gives me the heebeejeebees.

[Female_alien]

The rwturn of Voldrmort in GOF and Cedric's death - I voted for that
But, in Ootp, the part in MoM was scary too

Good topic!

[Athena Appleton]

it's funny, I think the general tone of OotP is more frightening, but no one has voted for anything in the fifth book

[Writer]

Oh I found the ministry of magic part in OotP quite scary. It really stressed me out how everything was going wrong! And people kept getting abandoned, lying on the floor suffering (like ron with the brains etc) without us knowing what happens to them until a few pages later! Of course I knew they would be but I can't help going "no don't leave them like that!" Ooooh the stress. How to scare me is to get me stressed and keep me in suspense. And then the veil *shiver*, and AFTERWARDS when Harry our hero tried to cast an unforgivable I was like "nooooooooooo! Don't do it!"
Thats what I found most scary when I was reading it. But I suppose Voldemort's return was rather scary too.

[AngelicS_89]

I think the cariest part is from the OotP,when Dementors attack Dudley and Harry,but just first time I've read it,cause I didn't know what will happen...Actually all scenes with Dementors are scary!

[AngelicS_89]

Sorry for double post...I meant to say scariest not cariest

[fierce]

I find the Ministry of Magic really scary, when they're fighting head-on with the death eaters in the different rooms. I was frightened that Ron would stay that way forever (when he was all zonked out) just like in Cat in the Hat... how can anything go back to normal after so much has happened?

Jeez that sounded like a line from lord of the rings. "I want to hear more about sam!"

[sea-plunder]

i think voldemorts return in the goblet of fire because harry was like..nearly gettin killed and you didn't have a clue what was gonna happen

[Lone_Buck]

One of the scary one's to me isn't on here. I thought it was a little erie in the beginning of GoF, with that old guy, and the Riddle house.

[Groo]

The scariest moment was the Dark mark arising at the Quidditch world cup
and the trio running into the forest

Harry entering the Chamber of secrets was also spinechilling

[Nobby]

yeah i agree

welcome groo