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[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 179662

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" <susiequsie23 at ...> 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. :)
> 
> Do tell, if you've got one!
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan

Geoff:
Personally, I would name the Weasley women - Molly and Ginny. I 
think I have said previously that I think Ginny exhibits traits which 
she may have picked up from her mother.

I know that Molly is very protective of her family - both natural and 
"adopted" but I do see her as something of a control freak. Arthur 
seems to come across as being seriously henpecked and she tries to 
dominate what the younger family members and people like Harry 
and Hermione do. I am always irritated by the way in which she tries 
to dictate to Harry what he can and cannot know and do - especially 
in OOTP. Here we have the guy who is supposed to be the one to save
 the Wizarding World and who surely has a right to know what is going 
on being shut out from the information which could be vital for him 
and any attempt by others to reveal this information is greeted with 
her opposition.

Speaking personally, I was sorry that JKR put Harry and Ginny together 
in the epilogue; I really don't see them as a match. perhaps I am wrong 
but I have always visualised the potential for them becoming another 
Arthur/Molly combination althoughI think Harry would be more prepared 
to stand his ground than Arthur does. I just see her as a Molly Mark 2, 
prepared to ride roughshod over other people to get her own way.