The Heroic Opponent in Harry Potter: Voldemort

"I feel like you can't ignore Voldemort. There's a reason Harry Potter has become one of the most important or at least well known stories of the last 20 years," she says. "You realize that every decision he's making is to avoid his own mortality and his own shame." In Buddhism, they call it a hungry ghost because there's never going to be enough food to fill them up, right? And by the way, hungry ghosts and Buddhism, they have huge mouths and little tiny throats because you can never get it down".