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[Zara]

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>SSSusan:
> 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?
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> * 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...

zgirnius:
Oh, me too. I rolled my eyes every time he showed up in the books. 
And it was not a House Elf thing, Dobby himself, the individual, 
annoyed me immensely. Winky was pathetic but not annoying, and 
Kreacher was very entertaining to read about when he was still just 
the evil, nasty house elf of the evil, nasty Blacks, and only 
improved when we learned his (and Regulus') tragic story.

But I love the annoying little being dearly now, and Dobby's was the 
only death I cried for, reading DH. I have not gone back to the 
earlier books, yet, but I wonder if he might not annoy me less when I 
do, now that I know the end.

I must also agree with those annoyed by Hagrid. While I enjoyed his 
introduction in PS/SS, and understood Harry's fondness for him, he 
had started to annoy before the end of that book. He still annoys me. 
Related characters like Aragog and Grawp do not annoy me, probably 
because I blame any annoyance they cause me on Hagrid.

That's it, I would say. I have other characters for whom I harbor 
negative feelings, but I would not say it is because they annoy me.