10 Most Brutal Deaths In Harry Potter Movies

6. The Killing Curse (The Random Toddler)

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Shifting gears to the Fantastic Beasts series, this particular example isn't brutal in terms of the way the victim was killed - Avada Kedavra, The Killing Curse, is painless - but rather, it's simply because the act itself was unspeakably evil.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald finds Johnny Depp's blonde-haired villain travelling to Paris, where he decides to hunker down and use the house of some poor Muggle family as his headquarters.

And so, this means that the family has to die. The parents are dispatched in a quick flash of green light, before Grindelwald and his crew discover a small child sat in a bedroom. After a brief pause, Grindelwald exits the room with no apparent feelings of remorse, leaving it up to one of his followers to finish the child off.

Now, bad guys are obviously going to do bad guy things, and Grindelwald is no exception. When dark wizards kill their enemies in the heat of battle, it's understandable, considering the circumstances. But killing a defenceless child? That's a completely different level of evil, and there's no sane way to justify it.

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