Evil or Irritating (WAS Idle musings on Book Six)

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 27810

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Megan" <virtualworldofhp at y...> wrote:
> Annoying?  Yes.  Should be completely stricken from GOF (IMO)?  
Yes. 
> A disgrace to witches and journalism?  Yes.
> Evil?  No.
> 
> I don't think we can classify Rita under that category of "truly
> evil".  If she's evil, then Dobby and Lockhart are too...because 
they
> irritate me just as much.
> 
> I think she's just there as someone to hate and be annoyed with.  I
> doubt she's even intelligent enough to be truly evil.
> 

Hi, Megan. 

Dobby and Lockhart are as irritating as Rita Skeeter?  Hmmm, well, 
could be.  But perhaps we can be more precise.  Maybe we need 
an "Irritant Meter" or something that places these characters on a 10-
point scale.  For me, Lockhart rocks the scale with a high rating of 
9.5.  Winky checks in at about a 7.  Dobby was a 7 in CoS, but moved 
to a 3 in GoF, which is rather impressive movement.  Rita Skeeter 
rates about a 4.  

On the "Evil Meter", Voldemort is king and gets a 10, of course.  I'd 
say Lucius Malfoy gets an 8.5 and Crouch Jr. gets a 9.5.  Maybe 
Pettigrew is perhaps a 7. Lockhart gets a 6.  Draco gets about a 4.  
Rita Skeeter can only muster about a 3.  I can't decide about 
Karkarov and Snape -- yet. 

Cindy (publicly thanking Megan for teaching her how to get her name 
instead of her e-mail to display in the author field)