Day 9

Question: Your least favorite male character and why

Hmmm...

This is a tough one...because there are male characters I just dislike, there are those that don't interest me, and those I don't care for a mite.

Here's the list:

Crabbe and Goyle (just...dislike.  They're too dumb to hate)
Argus Filch (just creepy)
Gilderoy Lockhart (ugh)
Barty Crouch & Barty Crouch, Jr. (the first is a hard man and the second is crazy)
Peter Pettigrew (hateful)
Voldemort (evil)
Percy Weasley (stuck-up little prig)
Peeves the Poltergeist (just...not cool until he takes orders from the Weasley twins)
The Carrow brother (I forget his name -- but he's cruel)
Cornelius Fudge (stupid for not believing Harry)
Vernon and Dudley Dursley (dumb and mean -- but Dudley has a redemptive moment)

Funnily enough, I don't hate Draco.  I understand perfectly why he's unlikeable -- he's stuck-up, proud, arrogant, cruel, and a bully.

But underneath that there's a boy desperately wishing to measure up.  Someone who wants to be part of something (somewhat like Severus Snape), and who cares about his family.  And who, in the end, isn't a killer.

Rowling says that while Draco and Harry never became friends, they did learn to respect each other.  So there was hope for Draco where a lot of the above list (minus Percy and Dudley) had none.

If I had to boil it down to one that I just really don't like (based on how I feel about their characters), I'd have to choose Peter Pettigrew -- the "friend" who betrayed Harry's parents.  Sometimes I wonder if he never really felt accepted by the other Marauders so when he was offered a chance at joining "power" he thought he could impress them (or even lord it over them), sort of like Edmund in The Chronicles of Narnia. 

Rowling's writing has helped me become more aware of how complex people are, and I am more careful about how I treat others -- you never know who's fighting a battle, and if you're kind to them, you might help them win.

More pictures to come -- the next few q's for the week look quite interesting.  :)