Evil or Irritating (WAS Idle musings on Book Six)

[Megan]

No: HPFGUIDX 27813


> 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)

(Anytime!)

Well, yes I admit Dobby significantly redeemed himself in GOF
(especially when he saved Harry from humiliation), so he moves down in
the Annoyance Scale.  (Maybe I just don't like House Elves...that's
it).  Winky gets my nod for a 7.  Maybe I just have a problem with
Rita's deception and the fact that she causes PUBLIC ruin to some
reputations (not to mention she's employed by the oh-so-credible Daily
Prophet?  HOW can they not see through her??).  Anyway (*mentally
checks her parenthetic rambling*) I guess Rita just bugs me--it's not
that she is ANNOYING, per se (she is somewhat), she just p*sses me off
(I don't know what kind of filter is on this thing...) because she
gets away with so much!

-Megan, who eagerly awaits the updating of the FAQ because it the best
HP thing she has ever read