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[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 179645

> Siriusly Snapey Susan:
>
> *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 don't mean disappointed you or angered you, really.
> I mean ANNOYED you. :)

Mike:
Neville. Not that I wasn't sympathic with his plight. And he 
certainly acquited himself by the end. But, from the start of PS/SS 
right up to his chopping off of Nagini's head, he grated on me.

His bumbling wasn't endearing in the least. 'Standing up to your 
friends is much more difficult'? HA! Your friends might Petrificus 
Totalus you, but they won't bloody your nose or turn you into a newt. 
His inability to remember the passwords, his ridiculous obsession 
with Herbology and ONLY Herbology, GAH! Even his broken nosed 
"Stubefy"s in the DoM made me want to say just SHUT UP. 

But the straw that broke the camels back was him running around 
during the Battle of Hogwarts throwing plants. PLANTS! Seven years 
of learning magic and he's throwing plants at the DEs. BTW, did he 
bother to equip the rest of his side with earmuffs before lobbing 
Mandrakes into the fray? I suppose it didn't occur to him. Just like 
his Expelliarmus in the DoM disarmed Harry right along with the DE.

Nope, didn't find Neville at all cuddly or cute or eccentric. 
I found him ANNOYING!

Mike, who will take a young Sirius over a Neville any day. :->