10 Most Brutal Deaths In Harry Potter Movies

8. Melted By Fiendfyre (Gregory Goyle)

Gregory Goyle Death Fire Harry Potter
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While Goyle's death certainly wasn't a nice way to go out, it's hard to have sympathy for him because it was entirely his own fault.

In Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Harry's Horcrux hunt eventually takes him to the Room Of Requirement, where he discovers his next target: Ravenclaw's Diadem. As perennially-unlucky as Mr. Potter tends to be though, he doesn't get the chance to destroy it there and then. Instead, he's cornered by Malfoy, Goyle and Zabini, who hold him up at wand-point.

A few spells are then exchanged and everyone gets separated, before Goyle casts the Fiendfyre curse in an ill-advised attempt to kill Harry, Ron and Hermione.

Now, Fiendfyre is a seriously advanced spell that unleashes an enormous storm of sentient fire. It burns through anything and everything in its path, and because Goyle was basically a noob when it came to magic this dangerous, he lost control of the spell, and it rampaged throughout the Room Of Requirement without a care in the world.

As a result, Goyle was forced to climb a stack of chairs and cabinets to reach higher ground, but while doing so, he fell into the fire, with his own spell melting his skin and cooking him alive. Maybe just stick to Avada Kedavra next time?

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