Characters you hate

[derannimer <susannahlm@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51202

Um. . . how are we defining "hate" here? Because as I read this 
thread, I am getting the distinct impression that. . . well. . .

I'm not quite sure how to put this. 

Look, here's the thing. There are *plenty* of characters whose 
company I would not especially enjoy were I to meet them in real 
life. But I enjoy *reading* probably every single character in the 
books. And I've read people on this thread saying things that give me 
the impression that some people don't even like to *read* certain 
characters. 

I mean, for example, while I obviously would not like to meet 
Gilderoy Lockhart, I've always enjoyed reading his scenes. ("Books 
can be misleading," said Lockhart delicately.") But a lot of people 
here are saying that one character or another really *irritates* 
them; which I am taking to mean that they really don't enjoy reading 
them. So is this true? 

Because I've thought about it and I don't know if there's *any* 
character in HP that I don't enjoy reading--you know, any character 
whose presence in a scene really *irritates* me; so I guess maybe I 
don't hate *any* of the characters. Which hardly seems as if it can 
be right, somehow. I mean, I hate characters in *other* stories. 




Derannimer (who loves Cancer Man. And *loathes* Kricheck. (Which is 
probably misspelled.) The minute that little rat showed up, I hated 
him. Even when I (briefly) thought I was supposed to like him. I 
wanted to throw something--like maybe a candlestick--at his lousy 
face on the TV screen.)