I Bid My Farewells to Harry Potter’s World (part2)

Basically, the first part of this stupid idea of mine was consist of my own criticisms over my favorite characters in Harry Potter series- namely Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger.
So now, in this part two I would criticize objectively as much as possible the next on my list of my top 30 characters. And since I’m too lazy to draw a complete essay like the first one for my top 2, I’ll just make it brief. Commentaries if you must.
Okay, I get it. My list is weird. Actually if I’m going to draw my list of the characters that I would want to give my opinions, you would say that I don’t really have a good category. I’m tired of describing it to you. Let me just draw it.
My Favorite Harry Potter Series’ Characters (In no definite reason except for the first four)
Draco Malfoy- so he’s the boy I love. Okay fine, objectively, he’s great coward in the first time you see him. But when you realize that his character has can be seen in another light, you’ll be really sympathetic of him. Haist. He’s charming and family-centered too though more of self-centered. Anyway, I totally sympathize with him being force to do something you don’t like because your parents failed and you’re threatened. And geez, Tom Felton is absolutely HOT!!!

Hermione Granger- Oh dear, the model of all that is good. I know she broke rules, but she’s still the prim and proper and brainiac Hermione Granger. Little Miss Perfect had grown into Lovely Miss-I-Helped-Save-The-World. She’s very kind, intelligent, decisive, and stood on what she believes in. Also she’s loving and all that. AND DID I TELL YOU THAT EMMA WATSON IS TOTALLY GORGEOUS AND PERFECT FOR THE ROLE!
Harry Potter- I just love the boy who lived. His life story is something anyone could easily relate to. And his knack for adventure and danger is really cool!!! And that’s all I can say. Though he’s pretty stupid and acts rash most of the time, I still love him. Oooh, DanRad is really cute as a kid and gorgeous as a man!
Bellatrix Lestrange- She’s an effective villain. In fact she’s my favorite villain. She’s cool and tough and a raving lunatic. She’s scary and mad. And you could actually get mad just by being with her. Honestly, she enjoys torturing and all, who wouldn’t be mad after long time of exposure with her? And Helena Borham Carter is a great actress. She did justice to the character.
Ronald Weasley- WICKED!!! His a total nerve-wracking idiotic and loyal and lovable and funny and fat! friend. I don’t ant to say sidekick but still. The Golden Trio won’t be Golden Trio with his absence. Though I would say, I’m very touched when he left the camp. And I so totally love it when Hermione and Harry kissed even if its just an illusion. The movie did great to that. Anyway, I love Rom cause he balances everything. With Hermione’s mental capacity and good-natured and logical mind, with Harry’s pure unadulterated bravery and knack for mishaps, you totally need someone who would bring out the fun during serious situations yet still sympathetic about it. And that’s his role. I know I like Rupert Grint but I’m not really sure about that.
Rubeus Hagrid- well who wouldn’t love having a half-giant as one of your guardians? Anyway, I love Hagrid because his love for weird and dangerous animals is actually inspiring. Really, I’m not an animal lover but the way he treats his ‘pets’ is incredible!
Cedric Diggory- I just love Robert Pattinson in here okay? But I kind a hate him because of Cho Chang. But since his on the list, it just means he left a great impact of my mins. Oh I remember. It’s his wake. When Dumbledore gave inspiring speech of all time.
Ginny Weasley- girl power!!! Though I don’t really like her much. Except for her toughness.
Remus Lupin- Best male professor in the history. I would do anything to have a teacher like him.
Luna Lovegood- She calms everyone. And she has a wild imagination that even if you think she’s mad, she does help a lot. And Evana Lynch is really great!
Neville Longbottom- he’s brave. Guess bravery really is an inside thing like he had. He just have to believe in himself more.
Minerva Mcgonagall- Best female professor. Really, she’s compassionate, strict, disciplinarian yet still kind and everything. And she’s intelligent. I do not wonder why Hermione Granger is her favorite student.
Albus Dumbledore- He’s a genius though he’s kind a mad. But he’s an incredible wizard and a very kind one too. Wonder how is it to live with a grandfather like him. Very witty and clever.
Nymphadora Tonks- Oooh. I like her because she’s a metamorphagus. And she’s cool!!! For a Hufflepuff, she’s brave!
Alastor ‘Mad-Eye’ Moody- Constant Vigilance! Enough Said!
Kingsley Shacklebolt- His brave too. And I like his purple robes.
Fred Wealsey- I love his jokes! And His PRANKS! I kind of miss him. And the Phelps brothers are super cute
George Weasley- Ditto!
Arthur Weasley- I would love to have a dad like him. Funny, yet incredibly loving.
Molly Weasley- And a mother like her. She’s too motherly. Though she over reacts most of the time.
Severus Snape- A seriously misunderstood creature. But its his fault too. His coward at first but I believe what he did was very bold. Though I wouldn’t suggest to anybody to do the good thing for revenge. And tell the person you love what you feel about them before its too late.
Horace Slughorn- I don’t know why but he’s funny. Egotistical and self-centered yes, but funny nonetheless.
Oliver Wood- Sorry I just love Sean Biggerstaff that’s why.
Lucius Malfoy- I hate to have a dad like him. Too self-centered and too evil!
Narcissa Malfoy- I like her maternal love for Draco but her submissiveness is too out of hand.
Voldemort- He’s evil right. And he’s pathetic! I don’t get him. And I hate him. But to be honest, I’m afraid of Bellatrix than him. But his megalomaniac tendencies were high that being in the same room as his, I would probably be in a mental institution after ten minutes. oh and Ralph Fiennes is a great actor.
Rufeus Scrimgeour- I hate this kind of ruler!
Dolores Jane Umbridge- She’s an evil woman. She actually ties with Bellatrix on my favorite villain. Though she’s wearing pink not black.
Cornelius Fudge- This man is greedy. And if all rulers in the world would be like him, the world is doomed!
Sybill Trelawney- She’s funny. Though I agree with Hermione, she’s a fraud most of the times. But admit it, she’s funny with all the doom and danger ahead of you.

** The list has nothing to do because I’m mad or something with them. The names just came up in my mind as I type them in that manner.

I Bid My Farewells to Harry Potter's World (Part 1)

 All of us knew who he as we had read the famous Harry Potter books or even watched the film adaptations. As the phenomena is nearing its end with the final installment of the film due on the first half of next year, mixed emotions rushed to every Harry Potter fanatic. In line with this, I would love to write my thoughts on some characters that I had grown to love.

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Let me start with the favorite bully of all time. Draco Malfoy, once a son of a death eater, and a death eater himself, student of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. We had followed his life through Harry, Ron and Hermione’s eyes as they started their journey. The pale blond wizard that we hated because of his notorious hobby of bullying other students and his prized prejudices had revealed a large part of his life in the last two books with and without the aid of the views of our heroes and heroine.

I personally admired him, pitied him, felt sorry for him and became happy for him. He was a young boy who grew in a prejudiced society, fed with injustice towards people of lower birthright and deprived with true love.

As part of the higher society, Draco had forced to learn codes of conduct to present him as agreeable to the upper class. Even though I’m not part of that society, I could only imagine how hard it is for an eleven year old boy to keep up appearances to everyone he doesn’t even know of. If you think putting the world’s fate upon the shoulders of an eleven year old is hard, then think of putting the fate of a known family name upon the shoulders of a boy at the same age, how hard could it be? Very hard indeed, as I may say. Just think of the language lessons you need to take so that you’ll be fluent to communicate with businessmen around the world, of firm hands that lay on you whenever you did a mistake, then change it to hexes that reach your system for every error. That’s what I imagine whenever I think of Draco.

How did I conjure with that picture? Simple really. In the last book, when Draco had to recognize Harry Potter when the trio was captured and was took in the Malfoy Manor, I had seen how Lucius put pressure on every word he said to him. I barely recall the line but it run along ‘Dark Lord will be pleased’ or ‘glory for their name to the Dark Lord’ or something. See, he was seventeen then but he was still a boy help prisoner in his own house and pressured to keep his family name in good graces. Just think of him six years before with the same circumstances only they were younger. Do you think Lucius wouldn’t keep the same pressure on him? Do you think he wouldn’t let Draco be part f the torture scene in front of him? I’d think not. What’s important to Lucius is keep their family in the high position no matter what happened, and his pureblood bigotry, if I may add. And if forcing his son to identify the hero of the wizarding world would do the job, he wouldn’t hesitate.

Then you would be mad at Draco because he tormented the Golden Trio when they were younger. But I say it’s unfair to judge him because we only saw Harry’s point of view right? I believe Draco’s hobby of tormenting the Trio especially is because of three sets reasons, one for each member. First, for Harry Potter, Draco was infuriated that someone had the spotlight and it wasn’t him. He was spoiled, an only heir of a ‘filthy rich’ family so naturally all attention was upon him. But then Harry Potter had all the attention of the whole wizarding world, who was he to fight with that. Then there was the fact that Harry rejected his offered friendship. Like I said he was spoiled, so everything he wanted, he got it. But it was probably the first time that someone had rejected to give him what he wanted. Second is for Ron Weasley. It was rather simple. It’s the fact that their families had a broken connection upon the “traitor” issue on their families. The Blacks had connected them both in the family tree but since the Weasleys are muggle loving people which was against the doctrines purebloods hold, then Malfoys and Weasleys had separated ways. Ron and Draco were just stuck in the middle of an old family war. Third is for Hermione Granger. Draco was fed at the very young age that pureblood hold the greatest deal of intelligence and power to everyone. But this brunette Gryffindor had defied them all. She was after all the ‘smartest witch of her age’, which apparently infuriated Draco. She maybe of lower birthright but she was above him in many aspect. That didn’t go well with what was taught to him. So I think Draco had concealed his confusion and doubts upon these doctrines behind his taunts and smirks.

So you see why I admire him. These complications of his upbringing were challenges to him but in the end, he had conquered them all. He had achieved the open-mind state that the Ms. Rowling had planned for him to have. After all isn’t that the goal of the story? Inter-house unity? Conquering all evils? Yes, yes it is. Draco is one of those people who had achieved and had reached the peak of the mountain, and he had placed his flag to mark his achievement. For me, Draco is a hero. He is a hero against internal and external evils for he had fought against the beliefs of the society he had lived in, and his own flaws so that in the end, he will survive the war; may it be internal of external battle.

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Then there was my ultimate idol, Hermione Granger. Who would have thought, that a girl from a world different from this new world without any magical blood from her parents would defy the rules of a prejudiced society and would grace her cleverness and good heart to make a change? Surely J. K. Rowling thought that, but none of us realized that at the beginning right?

I would always admire Hermione. And if ever I would be graced with a child, I’ll name her after her. Her brilliance, and good heart really showed me that even a girl who was treated an outcast could wrap the world on her finger- in a good way, mind you- to make it a better place to live in. When I was young, really young, I always imagined being in her position, learning the things she studied, or even being her friend. How great would that be? I could only imagine.

She has this great loyalty to her friends. Maybe because she was an only child, that’s why she gives her trust easily or it’s just the natural goodness of her heart. No matter what, she’s still the heroine of all time. Her cool use of her mind amazed us all, but her compassion and deep emotional range moved us more. She was the life of the golden trio. She was the hope when everything wasn’t in order. Her being a control freak wasn’t something you would despise when you see the good in it. After all, who would save Harry and Ron in the middle of a mind boggling puzzle?

Then what I love about her is actually her love for her parents. Yes I know it’s just a bit part of the seventh book but she was very noble in that part. I personally was crying hard when I first watched the film- which really portrayed a better picture than my imagination when I read that part. The fading of her pictures, and the emotions she had released silently with the sacrifice to help save the world that was very touching that I couldn’t help my tears from rolling off my cheeks. I never actually cried on a film or a book unless someone died, but that very part of Hermione’s life, I cried buckets of tears.

This girl, nay young lady, actually deserves all the praises she has now. She deserves the title “Smartest witch of the age”. She deserves the life she has not after enduring pain, anguish, fears and defeat but in the end left as the triumphant heroine. I would never forget Hermione Granger, for her beauty, intelligence, bravery, and good-heart. She’s a model for every girl from the moment she learned how to read and comprehend till the moment she died.

Yeah right, I would thank Hermione Granger for being part of Harry’s life. Haha, indirectly mine too, and yours of course. Anyway, without Hermione, how would Harry and Ron get out of their puzzling thoughts? How would they make themselves calm if they always wear their emotions on their sleeves? How could we know the spells and charms necessary in times of our needs? All of it is because of Hermione, and thus I thank her for inspiring my life.