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* The first book is mainly safe-for-reading by innocent souls, but there is a horrifying vision at the end, with {{spoiler|Voldemort ''physically'' inhabiting Quirrell, his face parasitising in the back of his head.}}.
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* Hagrid, an 8.5 feet (2.6 m) tall half-giant who considers vicious and violent three-headed dogs that look like they were cast out of Hades 'cute', is absolutely ''horrified'' at the mention of Azkaban. It is not made clear by this book what is so frightening about Azkaban.
** It's revealed in the next book. And it is most ''definitely'' [[Fate Worse Than Death|the sort]] [[Mind Rape|of thing]] that only the most dedicated of [[Death Seeker
* "Slytherin's gigantic stone face was moving... something was stirring inside the statue's mouth. Something was slithering up from its depths... Harry could almost see the giant serpent uncoiling itself from Slytherin's mouth... He heard Riddle's hissing voice: 'Kill him.'..."
* An eleven-year old girl is possessed and writes in blood on the walls. The walls which mysteriously hiss at the protagonist. Hisses and moans about it being time to kill and eat. What's ''not'' freaky about that?
* Even before the revelations of its true function in later books, Tom Riddle's diary is still deeply disturbing. Something about the fact that all the things the diary did were never really dissected and logically analyzed in-series made it all the more sickly dark, the same way that the simplistic, matter-of-fact way that dark things in children's stories and fairy tales are introduced are much more disturbing than deeply analyzed dark aspects of and occurrences in adult literature. The vagueness and mystery of the off-screen horrors combined with things that are perfectly logical but not all neatly tied up with an
** It's a [[Soul Jar]] with a copy of the mind of a genius, murderous seventeen year old sociopath with a deep-seated hatred of the racially "impure" and a willingness - no, ''eagerness'' - to '''''wipe them off the face of the continent, if not the entire world'''''. What about that ''isn't'' scary?
* There is a giant snake. In a school. Filled with children. When you look at the snake, you either become a statue or die. And the gigantic, carnivorous basilisk: just ''[[Fridge Horror|what was it eating]]'' all those months? We only know about the victims whom it left petrified, not about whether or not anyone just plain disappeared...
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* Boggarts. Creatures that can exist without anyone knowing their true form is pretty unnerving, but the fact that they can take the shape of the thing a person fears most, which can change on the person's mindset, and inhabit any given corner of the globe is pretty damn terrifying.
** The [[Giant Spider]] form of the [[Your Worst Nightmare|Boggart]] in the movie. [http://images.wikia.com/harrypotter/images/8/84/Spider.png Seriously, the dementors] [http://images.wikia.com/harrypotter/images/5/5a/Spider2.png have NOTHING on this]. [[Schmuck Bait|Do not view if you wish to sleep in peace.]]
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* The second task of the Triwizard Tournament in the Black Lake in the film adaptation... the merpeople's design and their shockingly aggressive attitude when the [[Berserk Button]] is pressed.. Viktor Krum's transfigured shark head, the Grindylows, which, despite the fact that they were only seen from a distance or below, were extremely territorial...
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* The only correct answer is [[Harry Potter/Characters|Umbridge]] herself. If there is anything scarier than High Octane Nightmare Fuel, she would be it. [[A Very Potter Musical|"The Dementors are only afraid of one thing:]] ''Her.''"
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*** Fridge Brilliance/Fridge Horror. Remember what created Voldemort in the first place; conception via a love potion. The love room is locked because of the potential to create a TON more Voldemorts.
* The powerful spell Dumbledore used against Voldemort. All we ever learn about it is that it would not have killed Voldemort, and Dumbledore simply responds, "There are other ways of destroying a man, Tom." The spell's horrifying effect is left up to the imagination of the reader.
* Boggarts, generally all bark and no bite except for Harry and whoever's afraid of [[Monster Clown|THAT MUTANT JACK-IN-THE-BOX]], are given a Wham Moment when Mrs. Weasley, trying to get rid of one, ''is forced to see the dead bodies of her family (and Harry, in a darkly heartwarming moment).'' [[Adult Fear
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* The entire 'House of Gaunt' scene.
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* [[Face Stealer|Nagini the snake being INSIDE Bathilda's corpse and controlling her like a puppet]], then [[Orifice Evacuation|SHEDDING her dead body like it was SNAKE SKIN]]. Ugh!
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** I saw the film. On the one hand, every close up of Bathilda's face (and there are several of them) is horribly unnerving, especially if you know what's coming. On the other hand, it's much less graphic than one would imagine; it's implied that Nagini was transfigured to look like Bathilda, and that the real one was killed by the snake; Hermione finds the real Bathilda's body. We never see it, but we see flies, Hermione's horrified face, and plenty of blood splatters. Now, the actual fight with Nagini? Terrifying. Partially because the director was not afraid to put in plenty of shots where the snake was coming towards the audience. My sympathies go out to anyone who has seen that scene in 3D.
** A giant snake who possesses people... HOLY CRAP! Nagini is [[Naruto|OROCHIMARU!]]
** The part where Hermione realizes they are being
** Harry and Nagini are fighting in the grimy, dimly-lit upstairs bedroom of the house, and then they ''crash through a wall'' into a well-lit, clean nursery-like room. It just seems so ''wrong'' and out of place.
* Speaking of Nagini, we can't forget {{spoiler|Snape's brutal murder}}. Oh, how beautiful it must be to {{spoiler|see his neck chewed on by Nagini, and then see him writhing on the floor in pain as blood and memories leak out from him}}...
** It gets worse when it's revealed that it was ''totally pointless''.
** The movie has this as a [[Nothing Is Scarier]]
* Little scarred and blistered, soulless mewling creature Voldemort, so repugnant-looking that Harry didn't want to touch it.
** It's especially disturbing when you realize that it's Voldemort's soul. It was horrifying.
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* The scene with the locket Horcrux trying to turn Ron against Harry in a last ditch effort to defend itself. Ghastly spectres of Ron's friends and family tell him that he's worthless compared to Harry.
** That [[Eldritch Abomination]] ''swirling cloud of darkness'' that EXPLODED out of the locket was freaky as hell. Swirling, ''talking'', with things that looked like heads and bones thrusting out of it before disappearing... That scene wasn't scary in the book, but [[Nightmare Fuel|in the movie...]]
** Speaking of the locket, you know when Harry finds the Sword of Gryffindor in the frozen pond and jumps in to get it? When he gets close enough to the sword, ''the locket yanks him back.'' It doesn't get
** Here's a nice subliminal scare in the movie. When the locket opens, the shot lingers on the open locket for a split second before the darkness erupts out. Pause it there and you'll see '''an eye inside the locket looking right at the camera.'''
* Death, as portrayed in the [[Film of the Book|movie's]] [[Art Shift|animated version]] of The Tale of the Three Brothers. The atmosphere in that scene is generally creepy, but the way that hunched-over, skeleton-like thing ''moves''...
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* "The Warlock's Hairy Heart". [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|In the liner notes]], Dumbledore even points out that many wizard parents won't tell it to their children "until they're in an age where they won't have nightmares".
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