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[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 179641

Siriusly Snapey Susan wrote:
>
> *MOST ANNOYING CHARACTER
> 
> I'm curious what you all think about this.  Did you have a character
that, right up to the end, grated on your nerves, bugged the heck out
of you, just ANNOYED?
> 
> I admit that those which had originally annoyed me no longer did by
the end.  
> 
> * Colin Creevey, of course, who was written to annoy us as he
annoyed Harry, I do believe...
> 
> * Dobby, who *had* bugged me in the earlier books, but whose death 
moved me much more than I ever would have guessed it could have...
> 
> * Luna Lovegood, who seriously annoyed me in OotP but who began to
grow on me in HBP and on whose side I definitely was by DH...
> 
> So, I'm just curious for the rest of you.  Were there any characters
who truly annoyed you?  I don't mean disappointed you or angered you,
really.  I mean ANNOYED you. :) <snip>

Carol responds:

Annoyed as in drove me crazy and made me just want them to go away and
never come back? Made me want, not kill them, shake them, or slap them 
silly but to swat them like a fly because they were a nuisance
interfering with my enjoyment of the story? I'd say that most of the
nonhuman characters fall into that category, possibly because of the
way they speak, with Dobby and Grawp at the top of the list. As for
human characters, probably Lockhart was most annoying in the early
books (well, CoS only), with Ginny as the champion nerve grater in the
last three (mostly OoP and HBP). Wormtail groveling in GoF was rather
annoying, too. In fact, any DE groveling was annoying to me. I'm
trying to remember whether I wanted to swat the Skeeter or enjoyed her
despite her being annoying to the other characters. Probably depended
on my mood. I'm past the point where I feel one thing or another about
her now.

That feeling of annoyance or irritation ("Go away and stop bothering
me! I want to get back to characters I can enjoy reading about!") is
different from moments when I wanted to slap a character, which
occurred with almost everybody: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dumbledore,
Hagrid, Sirius Black, the Twins, Lupin, James almost every time he
showed up, Snape when he saw no difference in Hermione's teeth, or the
desire to just, well, throttle someone (Umbridge and Fake!Moody, whom
I hated before I knew he was a bad guy). If we want a character I
hate, hate, hate, it's Nagini. Brrrr!

Carol, who, if she has to limit herself to a single *most* annoying
character, would choose Grawp, with Hagrid talking to "Grawpy" as a
close second