CHAPDISC: DH7 - Scrimgeour, Another Wish

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 179169

> Prep0strus:
> See, the reason I was disappointed in JKR was that my expecting 
> 'more' of him wasn't necessarily expecting him to be a better 
> minister - but a better character.  <snip>

Mike:
I understand what you're saying, but it all comes to the same thing, 
doesn't it? You wanted a better character, I thought he was fine as 
he was. I look at Scrimgeour as the antithesis of the adage, 'war 
time hero, peace time f*** up'. Scrimmy was a peace time climber, but 
in over his head when war time came. Which is not that uncommon when 
you look back through history at generals moving into political 
positions of power. Especially military coup generals.



> Prep0strus:
> But when I think about it, there's almost no character I DIDN'T 
> want more of.  From Draco to Umbridge to Lupin to Snape to Blaise
> to Charlie to Ginny... I would have liked to see more of almost
> everyone.   <snip>
> 
> It leads me to a question though - who did you NOT want to see more
> of?  I'd like to know who people were fully satisfied with, or even
> which characters might have been overexposed, and you could have 
> had a little less of, rather than wanting more.

Mike:
I'll play. First I'll respond to yours. ;)

> Dumbledore.

I agree, too much of him after he was dead. I especially hated his 
portrait still pulling the puppet strings.

> Xenophilius.
> Luna.

I had no need nor use for Xeno. I suppose JKR painted herself into a 
corner with the Lovegoods as the purveyers of the ridiculous. Still, 
couldn't Auntie Muriel have been the one to spill the beans on the 
Three Brothers and the Deathly Hallows?

I can take or leave Luna. I agree with what you said about her being 
foisted on us fully realised. I'll also add that I thought it highly 
unlikely she would ever have turned up for the initial meeting of the 
DA in the Hogshead. Who would've told her in the first place?

> Slughorn.

I kinda liked Sluggy. I wish we would have found out that he was in 
on his old friend Dumbledore's plans more than he was, which was 
essentially not at all.

> Pansy.

Why couldn't Slytherin have had a pretty, conniving girl in the mold 
of Blaise Zabini's mum? Instead we get pug-faced Pansy, cackling 
inanities at every turn.

~CrabbenGoyle - they were a waste of ink for six and three quarters 
books. The get seperated from their conjoined condition when Crabbe 
gets his big moment, casting Fiendfyre. Of course Goyle compensates 
by being unconscious the rest of the way. He doesn't even rate 
mentioning at the post-war gathering when all the Malfoys are huddled 
in the Great Hall. Did he die? Eh, who cares!

~Tonks, Nymphadora - too much of her, or rather, too much of the 
Tonks as portrayed. She was an Auror and a Metamorphmagus. So what is 
her assigned role for two books? A love obsessed woman craving the 
company of Remus Lupin of all people. Why couldn't she have been the 
seventh Potter by metamorphing herself into Harry? Why introduce a 
Metamorphmagus if all she's going to use it for is to make funny 
noses to amuse Hermione and Ginny? Oh, did Lupin strike anyone here 
as the irresistable sort?

Mike, wondering why Tonks didn't morph into various DEs to create 
havoc with the Ministry by planting mis-information?