The character I pity the most

[judyserenity]

No: HPFGUIDX 35485

Devin wrote:
> >I think I can safely say that the character I 
> > really feel sorry for is Frank Bryce.  

And Cindysphynx replied:
> Actually, there are quite a number of characters to feel sorry for 
> in HP.  I have little pangs about the plights of Lupin and Black, 
> for instance.
> But I guess the character(s) I feel most sorry for are the Diggorys. 

I'm with Devin here.  Frank Bryce's plight really gets to me.  It's 
not so much how he died -- he was 76 or so years old -- but the 
lonely, tortured life he led.  There's nothing to suggest that 
*anything* ever worked out in his life, and he really wasn't to blame 
for any of it.

I don't feel so bad for Cedric, because although he died young, he 
seemed to have had a happy life up until that point.  I think an 
unhappy life is worse than an early death.

I do feel bad for Cedric's parents.  By the way, it seemed to me that 
JKR wrote Amos Diggory is a rather unsympathetic way, gloating to 
Harry about how Cedric beat him in Quidditch and such.  I wonder if 
JKR was trying to soften the blow for readers when Amos loses his son?

I feel that Lupin has been treated horribly, but he seems to hold up 
fairly well.  I'm hoping there's better things in his future (although 
I won't be surprised if he gets killed off.)  I feel bad for Sirius, 
but this is tempered by the fact that I don't like him.