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[hpraremod]

Discussion Question #3
Do you have any favourite minor characters? Who are they?

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[knowmefirst.livejournal.com]

I would have to say only two Blaise Zabini and Oliver Wood

[lovegingers.livejournal.com]

I agree! Blaise and Oliver are the best XD

[wintervixen86.livejournal.com]

I like Pansy and Blaise.

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

Poppy Pomfrey (with a special spot in my heart for Death Eater!Poppy), Andromeda, Regulus, Pansy, Grindelwald, Eileen.

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'd love to read some Death Eater!Poppy! That sounds amazing.

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

It is. The first time I encountered it my brain was completely broken. I went "wha-um-whatwhatWHAT?" And then I loved it. And the fic was maybe 150 words?

I've only found a short one-shot or two, but I have ideas. (Particularly: Voldemort-loyalist Snape brings Poppy to the Dark side. I *have* to write that one sometime.) If you want I can try to dig up the link/s. :)

Because, you *know* that Poppy knows everything going on in that school. She's intelligent and has to have decent observational skills as a nurse, but nobody ever bothers to think about her loyalties or notice if she's in the room. I'm willing to bet she's got a touch of natural legilimency too. Plus, if there's a portrait of Dilys in her office, she has direct access to the headmaster's office....

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

YES. Death Eater!Poppy is now my favorite thing ever. Right up there with Death Eater!McGonagall.

[lovegingers.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! If you write a fic with Death Eater! Poppy, please send me the link, because I want to read that! :D

[alley-skywalker.livejournal.com]

Haha DE!Poppy sounds like crack fic, but I'd totally love to see someone do this seriously lol.

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

It sounds like it at first, yes, but one or two people have done it. I have an idea for a fic too. It's kind of amazing how you can break people's brains with it. Mwahaha! ;)

[gamma-x-orionis.livejournal.com]

Andromeda, Rabastan, and Rodolphus are my favourite minor characters, and I also adore members of all the extended Pureblood families - Callidora Black, Cedrella Black, Druella Rosier, Abraxas Malfoy, Cygnus Black...
You know. The ones who don't actually get mentioned in the books ;)

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

How could I have forgotten dear Rabastan?

You might like verus_janus' fic, very DE-centric, and dear Abraxas gets - *gasp* - characterization. Unless you are all about OH THE GLORY OF VILLAINS; janus has a very nuanced/sympathetic view as opposed to the darkfic aspect. (I go back and forth, myself.)

[gamma-x-orionis.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD, CHARACTERIZATION? *Shocked*

Haha, I LIVE for nuanced/sympathetic Death Eaters :) What's the title?

[alley-skywalker.livejournal.com]

Sympathetic DEs are the love of my life. Lol. Seriously, the best comments I've gotten on fics are those that have said I've made them think about the DEs more/differently/from an inside perspective etc. Janus' fics are wonderful and probably much better than mine so go forth and read :D

[vividescent.livejournal.com]

Regulus Black and Blaise Zabini.

[tryslora]

Blaise Zabini, Lavender Brown, Adrian Pucey, Marcus Flint, Emma Dobbs, Rose Zeller, Pansy, and now I'm sure I'm forgetting some... I love being able to work into the head of a character who doesn't have a lot of canon. Dean Thomas, is he minor? C. Warrington.

[bk03.livejournal.com]

Padma Patil and Susan Bones

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

Fenriiir. Though mostly fanon!Fenrir. I was disappointed by the movie!version of him. :(

Other than that, I'd say Percy and Peter.

[maurice.livejournal.com]

I was disappointed by the movie version, too. I guess I had too many expectations for such a villain...

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

They didn't keep the same actor between Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows, did they? Because as soon as I got used to the HBP version, I didn't see him in DH. :(

[maurice.livejournal.com]

Haven't watched DH, but I remember reading somewhere he's the same actor. I could be totally wrong, of course

[imera.livejournal.com]

Hate the movie Fenrir as well. I like the actor, but instead of the crappy costume they put him in I imagine him like Wolverine :D

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

YES! If this were facebook, I would like this SO MUCH. That's pretty much how I pictured him from Day 1.

[imera.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I have met another person with the same 'vision' as I, if they just let us fans take care of the costumes, then the movie would have been even better.

[scarsgirl.livejournal.com]

Oliver, Blaise and Augusta Longbottom

[coffee-n-cocoa.livejournal.com]

Augusta, Frank and Alice Longbottom, and Susan Bones. I just love all the Longbottoms in general (especially Neville), and for some reason I've always liked Susan. I like to think she comes from the same mold as her aunt Amelia, and I was extremely disappointed that she wasn't mentioned even once in DH.

[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

All the wonderful dykey women: Hooch, Professor Grubbly-Plank, Amelia Bones.

The older women in general: McGonagall (does she count as minor?), Sprout and Pomfrey, Griselda Marchbanks (OWL examiner from the Dept. of Magical Education), Augusta Longbottom, Madam Rosmerta, Madam Malkin, Bathilda Bagshot, Auntie Muriel Weasley. Even Walburga Black.

I like the older men, too -- Moody, Filch, Aberforth, Ollivander, Flitwick, Scrimgeour.

And Kingsley. Love Kingsley.

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

Filch! Yes! Kingsley too.

Apparently I love all the characters except the ones named Potter or Dumbledore....lol.

[secretsalex.livejournal.com]

I love Blaise Zabini and Millicent Bulstrode. Millicent especially. And Madam Hooch and Minerva McGonagall--they belong together. :)

[magic-knickers.livejournal.com]

Blaise, Pansy, Viktor, Cormac, Charlie, Regulus, Andromeda, Oliver. I have soft spots for Lavender and Cho, as well. Everybody's favorite is Ginny or Hermione or Pansy--really, though, I find it so easy to relate to these two. I also quite like the Patil twins, Daphne and Astoria Greengrass, Theo Nott, and Adrian Pucey.

[alley-skywalker.livejournal.com]

Antonin Dolohov, Evan Rosier, Regulus, Augustus Rookwood, Pansy, Ernie, Scorpius, Lysander, Louis, Hugo... Also, Bellatrix, Lily Evans and Narcissa who, I guess, count as minor...kinda... I just kinda like all the Slytherins/younger first war Death Eaters (Regulus and Severus' lot). Except Blaise...not sure why, but he bugs me.

[maurice.livejournal.com]

Heee, how could I forget Dolohov and Rosier?!
It's really interesting to read fics on the first Death Eaters generation. I mean, they went to school with Lord Voldermort, they have to be awesome! XD

[alley-skywalker.livejournal.com]

Lol in my headcanon Antonin, Augustus, Rodolphus etc, didn't go to school with Riddle. Their fathers are Riddle's contemporaries and those of Tom's generation didn't really become Death Eaters. He was much better at swaying the younger lot, though his generation certainly supported his cause, they mostly just didn't actively fight, though some did. But then, that's just my headcanon :)

[kitty_fic]

Regulus Black
Lysander Scamander
Lorcan Scamander

[maurice.livejournal.com]

Fenrir, Percy and Theo, but I also have a soft spot for Lavander and Millicent.

[scarletladyy.livejournal.com]

Pansy, Theodore, Astoria and Antonin :D

[nimrod-9.livejournal.com]

Luna, Kingsley, Mdme Pomprey, Oliver Wood, Viktor Krum

[saintgilbert.livejournal.com]

Lavender, Cho, Millicent and Regulus! Teddy Lupin!

[neville-8.livejournal.com]

Stan Shunpike

[edenskye.livejournal.com]

Oliver Wood is my all time favorite. I also like Ernie McMillan, Hannah Abbot, Seamus Finnagan, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, (Not sure if you would consider the last two minor.) Marcus Flint. I'm sure there are several other but I can't think of them right now.

[olimakiella.livejournal.com]

Blaise Zabini and Lucius Malfoy are my two favourites lately.

[lovegingers.livejournal.com]

YES! I absolutely adore those two! XD

[mayfly-78.livejournal.com]

Percy! Narcissa. Charlie. Oliver. (Neville and Luna if they count as minor.)

[theshadowpanther]

Charlie Weasley, Blaise Zabini (particularly female!Blaise, I was so disappointed when Zabini turned out to be male :( ), Teddy Lupin (!!!!), Lily Evans (not Potter) (who is only minor because she's not a full-bodied (?) character until the end), The Fat Lady (who is awesome and doesn't get enough comedic love xD), and Theodore Nott because no one writes about him. :(

[If Neville counts as minor, he gets my vote. I kind of wish he were the actual hero of HP if only because his progression from mousey stuttering Neville looking for his toad to total BAMF Neville who cuts off Nagini's head a) didn't get enough attention, and b) sounds totally epic.]

I'm glad no one asked about my favorite major/majoresque characters.... [Does Fred Weasley count as a minor character? He is my favorite twin. When he died, my HP canon collapsed in on me. :(]

[holeyspirit.livejournal.com]

Percy, Fred, and George - although to me, they're not minor at all. Then there's Fred II and Teddy Lupin...

But my favorite minor character is super minor. It's Verity, the assistant shop keep to the twins, in Half-Blood Prince, in the chapter Draco's Detour. I don't know why I latched onto her like I did, but it happened, and now I ship Gerity so hard it's painful (George/Verity).

But, yeah. :3

[freakingcrups.livejournal.com]

My most favourite minor characters are Theo Nott and Adrian Pucey. I also love Marcus Flint and Oliver Wood. Blaise is a good character as well.

[arenee1999]

Xenophilius Lovegood
Lucius Malfoy (would he be considered a minor character?)