Disliked Uncle Vernon (was: More on the chat=

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 92050

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
 
> 
> Also,
> LRGS School: Which character do you most dislike ? 
> JK Rowling replies -> Probably Uncle Vernon
> 
> Did this surprise anyone else?  He's despicable, yes, but MOST 
> disliked by JKR?
> 

Yes, I was a bit surprised, too. If you consider some other suspects, 
Voldemort, Bellatrix, the Malfoys, Umbridge, Wormtail..., it really 
is a bit surprising, that Uncle Vernon is her most disliked 
character. Maybe she just wrote a scene, in which he is particularly 
nasty, and therefore just had him in his minds. Or Vernon will do 
some even more awful things in the future. But personally, this 
answer also made me a bit hopeful. As characters, I like both, Dudley 
and Petunia, and hope that at the end of the series, they will be 
portrayed in a more positive light (OotP with a more mysterious 
Petunia and a broken down and pitiful Dudley hopefully started the 
trend). And if Vernon is her most disliked character, and not "the 
Dursleys", than there might be hope for the other two.

Hickengruendler