Characters you Love/was:Re: Re: Characters you hate

[Crunchy Frog]

No: HPFGUIDX 51368

My favorite characters...

*ponders the question*

I like Draco, but that is probably because of all the fanfiction I've been 
reading lately. In the books he is portrayed as a rather unpleasant little 
snob.

I really, really, really sympathize with Neville. I was (and still am) 
rather forgetful, and if I don't write things down, I forget them, I used to 
be very, very clumsy, costing my parents new sets of cups and plates every 
several months *g* and I kept losing things.

I heard that people like to compare Neville with Peter Pettigrew, and I hope 
that Neville will amount to more than being a yellow rat.

I also like Hermione, how she firmly believes that almost any problem, after 
spending enough time in the library, can be easily solved, but is not afraid 
to ^not^ be a book-worm sort of person, or to stand up to the adults when 
she thinks that they are wrong (as in Snape in the Shrieking Shack, or Rita 
Skeeter in a jar, which, after she is let loose, that event will probably 
come back and haunt Hermione. ;-) when she has to.

I like Molly, Professor McGonagall, Madam Maxime and Fleur because they are 
the most prominent female characters, and those that are most well developed 
(except for Petunia Dursley, but although I like her as a character, same as 
I do every other character, I don't like her as a person). They are strong 
and intelligent (I don't buy what a fellow HP lover told me that Fleur is 
very, very stupid. She isn't. If she were, she wouldn't have been chosen to 
be her school's champion, unless the Goblet choses randomly the pupil's 
name), and I hope that they will continue showing up in future books and 
that JKR won't kill them.

I also love Ron. Yes, he's prejudiced (against Remus, is one example that 
comes to mind), yes he feels irrational jealousy against Harry for something 
that is not Harry's fault, and he is very fallible. But he learns from his 
mistakes. He now knows that Werewolves aren't all really, really bad, and 
that they are people too (except during *that* time of the month), and I 
understand what Hermione says to Harry, that she knows that none of that 
stuff in GoF is Harry's fault, but it was one time too much for Ron that 
Harry was in the spotlight yet again and he was shunted to the side. One of 
the scenes with Ron in them that I love most is the one where he sees 
Crookshanks follow Pig's movements in the air, and he snatches Pig to 
safety, and when Harry goes on reading the letter saying that Ron can keep 
the owl as it's his fault Ron no longer has a rat, he lets Crookshanks sniff 
out Pig and says "What d'you reckon? Definitely an owl?" or something like 
that, sorry for not quoting exactly. Y'see? even after being prejudiced 
against Crookshanks, he learns the truth and finds out that everybody's 
favorite cat isn't as nasty as he thought he was.

This one isn't related to the question, but there are many side-stories in 
HP (like the MWPP story of their days at Hogwarts, or Nicolas Flamel's 
story) and comments that I just roll on the floor laughing about them. One 
of my favorites is the one where Dumbledore talks about his brother, 
Aberforth, and how he did illegal charms on a goat. Another one is when 
Harry asks Dumbledore what he sees in the Mirror of Erised and Dumbledore 
says that he sees people giving him socks, since a lot of people insist on 
giving him books for some reason. It might not be entirely truthful, but it 
is funny. Very funny.

T-T-That's all, folks. (for now, at least ^g^)

Crunchy Chocolate Frog

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Mr. Hilton: Oh, we use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from 
Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and 
sealed in a succulent, Swiss, quintuple-smooth, treble-milk chocolate 
envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.

Inspector: That's as may be, but it's still a frog!

Mr. Hilton: What else?

Inspector: Well, don't you even take the bones out?

Mr. Hilton: If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?

~"Crunchy Frog", Monty Python~
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