Three favourite and three favourite characters.

[Cindy C.]

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I need a working definition of "least favorite."  You know, do we 
mean characters we love to hate, or characters of whom we hope we've 
seen the last?  

I guess I'll do the list of favorites to exclude HRH, and to refer to 
characters who consistently and greatly enhance the scenes in which 
they appear.  For the list of least favorites, I'll go with 
characters that I don't like very much, even though we are supposed 
to like them or at least tolerate them.

FAVORITES

1.  Lupin (just gotta know more!).
2.  Moody (I bought his whole act from minute-one.  I wouldn't change 
a thing.  He's so wonderful that he doesn't even need a support 
group).
3.  Vernon Dursley.  (He's quite a riot in all four books, but 
especially in PoA, and I really liked the Dursley scenes in GoF as 
well.  He absolutely makes those scenes happen.)  

Honorable mentions go to Sir Cadogan ("Clap these loons in irons!") 
and Aunt Marge (particularly as Jim Dale voices her).

LEAST FAVORITE

1. Winky (is it the dialect, the whining, the self-pity, something 
else?  I just don't know.  Maybe she'll redeem herself in later 
books.)
2.  Fleur (if female characters are going to be beautiful but not so 
nice, they had better be more competent at magic than Fleur).
3.  Lockhart.  Uh, yeah, I think I'll mention Lockhart.

Honorable mention goes to Dobby, for being the character who improved 
the most in terms of likeability over the series.

Cindy