Top 10 Tuesday #59

Hosted by the ladies @ The Broke and The Bookish, this week’s question is

Top 10 Most Annoying Characters in Books

But since that’s a pretty tall order, we decided to specialize, so we are doing:

Top 10 Most Annoying Characters in Harry Potter

The first four characters are Kristina’s picks, but she’s so annoyed by them, she refused to do a write up, so I’ll provide he commentary on why I think she’d pick them.

1. Mad-Eye Moody–I honestly don’t know why she finds him so annoying, I kinda love him.  To each his own, I guess.
2. Narcissa Malfoy–I think her family is more annoying, but let’s think about this.  She’s a snob, she’s a death eater, and she’s partly responsible for Draco.
3. Lavender Brown–She was annoying long before she stole Ron from Hermione.  She’s irritatingly girly, giggly, and her name is stupid.
4. Gilderoy Lockhart–I think we can all agree to this one.  He’s probably one of the most annoying characters in all of literature.  He’s a fake, a coward, and he tries to use Harry to increase his own profile.  Gilderoy is the only character that is actually painted after someone Rowling knows, and someone I hope I never meet.
5. Snape–I know a lot of people love him, but he irritates the heck out of me.  I understand that he’s ultimately a good guy and incredibly brave, but he’s also a douche.  So there.
6. Fleur Delacour–Every girl’s greatest nightmare, a beautiful, brave, talented witch, who has an undeniable, ultimately inescapable attractiveness to the opposite sex and can make them into blithering fools.  Plus, she marries Bill, who is my second favorite Weasley.
7. Vernon Dursley–Granted, I can understand (sort of) his wariness of wizards, but the way he treats Harry is criminal.  He’s completely hung up on how his family is seen by others and a drive to appear “normal,” he makes me wonder what stangeness inside himself that he’s hiding.  On the other hand, I really hate him, so maybe I’m not really interested in what makes him strange.
8. Lucius Malfoy–Where to begin?  This man has no qualms about killing children.  Bad enough, right?  He’s egotistical, snobbish, elitist, a bigot, and a bully.  He’s a simpering toady to Lord Voldemort and I really love how he comes apart in the later books.  Serves him right.
9. Cornelius Fudge–He’s completely blind to what’s right in front of his face.  Rather than use his power to find Lord Voldemort, he sends in an evil toad to police Hogwarts and usurp Dumbledore’s authority and discredit a child and victim of Voldemort’s reign of terror.  He’s obviously in Malfoy’s pocket, though I doubt his intentions are evil, just self-serving.
10. Harry Potter–Yes, the hero of the story.  He can be downright irritating at times, especially around fifth year.  He takes out his misery on his best friends, the two people who have been there for him all along.  He’s short-tempered and doesn’t think through what his actions can do.  Harry has a hero complex and thinks he’s the only one who can bring an end to Moldy Voldy because he feels, I guess, guilty about his parent’s deaths.  Sometimes I just want to shake him and say “It’s not all about you, Harry!”  He doesn’t listen to smarter, more experienced witches and wizards and takes matters into his own hands far too often.  He allows his prejudices to color everything he does and he’s rash and spontaneous and often stupid. Oh, Harry, I love you, but sometimes I just want to tie you to a chair.

~*~Daphne~*~