My Top 5 HP Characters!

When it comes to ranking in general, ranking the books/movies isn't really that hard but it becomes tricky when it comes to the characters, because i really can't decide since there is SOOOO many characters in the series, so we're just gonna keep it short with the top 5! And i already know i'm gonna piss someone off with this list but hey, it's my opinion.

**5. Snape

If you asked like 2 years ago who was my favorite character, it would be Snape So it's surprising to me that he even makes it to the top 5, which is a step down from being number 1. Going back in a time, i used to adore Snape through and through, like i would defend him to the grave. However, just growing up and rereading the books once more, i just don't think i can love him unconditionally. I would still defend him and honestly when i read people's opinion about him on this sub in my mind i'm like ''**GUY WHO SAID ''ALWAYS''**wasn't this bad in the books?!'' But then i read it and it's like...yeah.

Like don't get me wrong, Snape is good i love him...however there's just some things that like really make me don't like him, mainly how he treated sirius (who would've gotten 5th place in this spot lol) and just sometimes i think he goes a little too far, like making fun of hermione's teeth is just kinda uncalled for yk. And it's weird that i'm so critical of him when he's literally on this list, but i think thats what i like about him. He's by far the most interesting character of the series and very well written, and he isn't all bad. He was still a spy for dumbledore and played a huge part of the downfall of voldemort, the debate would go on forever and that's okay!

I love Snape flaws and all, removing those flaws make him a worse/boring character, the fact that he's gray is what makes him click. If you don't believe me, go watch the films and they just ruin GUY WHO IS PLAYED BY Snape by having him be too nice, which doesn't make him any better just worse.

4. Dobby

I think this is controversial as well? I see alot of people don't like him, and even saw someone compare him to jar jar binks, which is kinda a huge overreaction like cmon (idk i don't watch star wars). I just find him cute yk and he really didn't deserve to die. I remember bawling my eyes out when he died, when i first read DH and i hadn't read the other books before that and his death still hit really REALLY hard.

I can't really think of anything i don't like about him, he tried so hard to save harry, he's got those puppy like eyes so you can't really be mad at him. Even harry does to

“Dobby is used to death threats, sir. Dobby gets them five times a day at home.” He blew his nose on a corner of the filthy pillowcase he wore, looking so pathetic that Harry felt his anger ebb away in spite of himself. “Why d’you wear that thing, Dobby?” he asked curiously.

But then immediately goes back to being angry at harry once more. I wonder why people don't like him, him being annoying i don't really get? Like his voice is kinda grating in the movies but it becomes bearable after a while. He really isn't that big of a character so there's not much to say, but i still love him none the less.

3. Crookshanks

In any ranking of anything, there's always that one thing that just makes everyone go ''why is that in your top 10?'' And frankly i don't care. I'm a cat person, and i think crookshanks is cute. Yes, a literal cat got put over all the other characters in the series, but frankly i don't care, it's my list.

He's pretty much the unsung hero of the series, and he doesn't get the love he deserves.

2. Dumbledore

I feel like this one people won't disagree on? I mean it's dumbledore, he's the best. There's so much to love about him like the way he spreads his arm wide once he does his speech or even when sits down with harry, as an equal during the mirror of erised scene, it's the little things that i love about him. I understand the whole pig for slaughter thing and i also don't, it's not like he was a calculated menace, he just wanted harry to succeed and just paved the way for it. I think this line from harry really just sums up with character.

“No, it isn’t,” said Harry thoughtfully. “He’s a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don’t think it was an accident he let me find out how the mirror worked. It’s almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could. . . .”

It's like all the adults up to harry's life at that point would be like ''don't ask questions'' and just belittle him, but dumbledore is the only one who really treats him right and really listens to him. And much like Snape , i really love his complexity, like everyone in the series he's flawed as hell, a great example of that in the DH, which is a great book which really delves deep into dumbledore as a person and why i like it so much (and hate the film, but thats a story for another day)

His death also hit me the hardest as well, like damn. He's like a kind gentle lvl 100 boss yk what i mean, he could pretty much do anything and i feel like he just got so much aura that he just doesn't care at all, like making his passwords candy and dressing flamboyantly, i just like that about him.

I do feel like he should've at least been completely honest with harry and i think he really messed up in OOTP, specifically when it comes to sirius, he even points it out himself, he can make mistakes, but his ability to be open with them and actually fix them makes it better in a way, but doesn't completely negate it. Sirius is still dead, and dumbledore probably had a huge part in it by keeping him confined in grimmauld place, but did he really have a choice? Who knows. I hate him more for that than this pig for slaughter BS. Also i think this is funny too.

Though it was now well past midnight, there were voices coming from inside the room, a positive babble of them. It sounded as though Dumbledore was entertaining at least a dozen people.

1. Harry

Yeah who would've thought, the guy on cover is my favorite. I think i can remember the exact moment i fell in love with him, i was writing this gigantic post about how he was done so bad in the films, and it just occurred to me how good really was in the books all along. People honestly don't give him enough credit tbh, like was he really lucky? Was it just skill? Was it just hermione's all along? Its like he even doesn't give himself enough credit

“Listen to me!” said Harry, almost angrily, because Ron and Hermione were both smirking now. “Just listen to me, all right? It sounds great when you say it like that, but all that stuff was luck — I didn’t know what I was doing half the time, I didn’t plan any of it, I just did whatever I could think of, and I nearly always had help —” Ron and Hermione were still smirking and Harry felt his temper rise; he wasn’t even sure why he was feeling so angry. “Don’t sit there grinning like you know better than I do, I was there, wasn’t I?” he said heatedly. “I know what went on, all right? And I didn’t get through any of that because I was brilliant at Defense Against the Dark Arts, I got through it all because — because help came at the right time, or because I guessed right — but I just blundered through it all, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing — STOP LAUGHING!”

I can understand that for movie harry, but acting like book harry wasn't capable is just wrong. Like maybe he wasn't a prodigy or naturally gifted, but he was good enough and could really think on his feet, it's his determination/willpower that really gets him through situations, like why else could he take off the the imperius curse?

I find it hard to sometimes to like articulate why i like things, because idk its hard to like express it in words. I think he's funny sometimes, but i think the biggest factor is i feel bad for him. The forest again is my favorite chapter of the entire series and it just breaks my heart fr. It's probably the best writing of the series, things like harry hearing his own heartbeat is just like WOW.

It's interesting that people overlook harry (even myself sometimes) because alot of the things that make harry HARRY are things that happened to him, rather than things that he actually did. But the thing that sets him apart from all those people, is like i can almost see myself in him. I'm not 100 years old like dumbledore or a cat like crookshanks so i don't really relate to them, i like harry because he's the kind of person i want to be yk. I look up to him. He's the character i feel for the most, it's as simple as that. There's so many lines i could choose from and moments as well, but i think this throwaway line is one i love alot.

“I dunno, it could’ve been his ghost!” “Dumbledore wouldn’t come back as a ghost,” said Harry. There was little about Dumbledore he was sure of now, but he knew that much. “He would have gone on.” “What d’you mean, ‘gone on’?” asked Ron, but before Harry could say any more, a voice behind them said, “ ’Arry?”

He's the hero archetype, and to some he could be basic but i love characters like that. He doesn't subvert any tropes that much like Snape or even dress funny like dumbeldore, but he is a badass and i love that about him as well. I'm telling you it's all the little things like him calling voldemort tom in their final duel and telling him to beg for remorse, and it's also huge things like his anger towards everyone in OOTP and his grief for sirius, that just HITS really hard to me.

He's literally the best thing about the series, book series to be exact, he's the worst thing about the movie series. If you want to see more on that just read this post

But like all of my posts, they're all my opinion and it's only half the story, who's your top 5 favorite characters and why?