# Who is your favorite Harry Potter character? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 19, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-harry-potter-character/720346 "2015-05-19T02:31:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-harry-potter-character/720346/41 "2020-05-21T19:54:02Z")
I got the most entertainment out of Fred and George Weasley. Honorable mention to Luna. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-harry-potter-character/720346/42 "2020-05-21T20:10:48Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > …Dumbledore was a selfish ass who had no problem using children as live bait. I sometimes wonder how many students he wound up getting killed before he got to Harry. It also always irritated me, when he was sent away or exiled from Hogwarts, how his allies kept saying he had to return to protect the students. Plenty of students were hurt or killed while he was there and actually on the job. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-harry-potter-character/720346/43 "2020-05-21T22:53:20Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Gotta give it to Neville. He’s basically Harry without the magic, charisma, accolades, or money. The story was determined to marginalize and make a squib of him and he was having none of it. > > Snape was basically a Darth Vader character. We were set up to judge him, and then given a backstory to essentially recast everything he did and said so in the end he was just a chronically broken guy with a bigtime crush that Dumbledore used to leverage him into protecting Harry and betraying Voldemort. The guy is just drowning tragic irony. I can’t say whether I think he was particularly redeeming and heroic, or if he just endured his shitty life. > > Dumbledore was a selfish ass who had no problem using children as live bait. I sometimes wonder how many students he wound up getting killed before he got to Harry. The historical record shows that from 1942 to 1995, exactly two Hogwarts students died on campus: Moaning Myrtle and Cedric Diggory (and technically, Cedric died in a cemetery in Little Hangleton). ETA: Also, Neville turns forty this year. He might make Headmaster yet. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-harry-potter-character/720346/44 "2020-05-22T03:34:25Z")
Lupin. Though I don’t find his relationship with Tonks plausible since I believe they’re both gay. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-harry-potter-character/720346/45 "2020-05-22T03:54:03Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > ETA: Also, Neville turns forty this year. He might make Headmaster yet. Go Neville! ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-harry-potter-character/720346/46 "2020-05-22T04:07:48Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Dumbledore was a selfish ass who had no problem using children as live bait. I sometimes wonder how many students he wound up getting killed before he got to Harry. In **Half-Blood Prince,** Dumbledore as good as allowed Draco to nearly kill Katie Bell without the slightest concern for her life. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-harry-potter-character/720346/47 "2020-05-22T15:45:42Z")
There are lots of great names above that can’t be argued with. But what about the poor Hufflepuffs? Nary a word has been said about them and let’s face it, most of us would probably _be_ Hufflepuffs! Therefore I nominate Cedric Diggory! Despite not being “brave”, “brainy”, or “cunning” he still won the Triwizard Cup, and was willing to share information proving collaboration is better than competition. In the end he was just the spare. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-harry-potter-character/720346.md?page=2)