Dude, me too. I understand the need to make certain stories allegorical, but people need to realize that it just doesn't WORK that way in the real world and that if your book's audience involves adolescents, there shouldn't be much of a need to soften these ideas (especially seeing as the Harry Potter books have a lot of death and torture in them and THAT isn't softened at all). There's no set "good" and "evil" and oftentimes what truly is evil isn't ugly at all (like Voldemort is, haha), but aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

...No wonder people are always caught up short when they discover that someone has an ugly personality even though they might be pretty in real life. D: