Characters You Hate

[snazzzybird <carmenharms@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51281

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote:
> Okay, my new question of the day (I do this at school every day): 
Everyone 
> has strong feelings about certain characters *coughSnapecough*; are 
there any 
> characters that you hate for no reason?  You just read about them 
and think 
> "Geez...I really don't like them!" but aren't really sure why?
><snip> 

Now me:

Definitely Rita Skeeter.  I found her reprehensible in the first 
reading of GoF, and more so in every subsequent reading.  Whenever I 
read her parts of the story, they take me out of my absorption and 
make me a reader again -- impatient to get past her part and into 
something else.  

There are characters in the Potterverse whom I love as characters and 
probably wouldn't like in real life -- Snape comes to mind here -- 
but Rita is someone I would dislike in real life just as much, 
possibly more.  She strikes me as a troublemaker.  She's stirring up 
trouble just to have something to write.  She's preying on 
celebrities (Harry) to sell product.  

If Rita were a Muggle, I can see her working for the National 
Inquirer or one of that ilk.  To me she represents the kind of 
papparazzi who dogged Princess Diana's footsteps, and followed Jackie 
Kennedy Onassis and her children around, and told Rosanne Barr 
Arnold, "We've found the child you put up for adoption when you were 
young and unknown, and we're breaking the story next week."  She's a 
bottom-feeder.  IMHO, her animagus should be a *dung* beetle.

--Snazzzybird, who loves Snape, likes Trelawney, and wants to cuddle 
Mrs. Norris