Ho, ramble, ramble, ramble...

[rj_anderson]

Fandom meme gacked from yahtzee63:

Name a character or pairing! Watch me ramble on about it!

Simple, no?

Comments

[serenasnape]

Minerva McGonagall. I just wonder what you think of her, really.

[rj_anderson]

I like her very much and always have, though I was disappointed in her readiness to believe at the end of HBP, along with everyone else, that Snape was really evil. I'd thought they were friends, after a fashion: I'd thought she might put up at least a little more resistance to the idea, might suggest that there might be some other possibility. But oh well. Maybe she just didn't want to upset Harry. Yeah, that's the ticket. :)

I loved her for facing down Umbridge over Harry's desire to become an Auror in OotP, though. That was her finest moment, and one of my favorite parts of the book.

[rose_in_shadow]

Mary Russell.

:D

[rj_anderson]

I don't like her as well as I like Holmes, but I think she's the only OFC I've ever read who makes me thoroughly believe that Holmes might a) love her and b) marry her. At her best, she's sharp and funny and I enjoy the interplay between herself and Holmes. At her worst, she's arrogant and self-centred and at times quite unreasonable, but goodness knows she's human, which is more than one can say for the average Mary Sue.

[lizbee]

Harry/Ginny.

Or, failing that, OFCs as a general category. That counts as a character, right?

[rj_anderson]

I've never felt militant about defending Harry/Ginny simply because it's always seemed to me to be somehow obvious, or inevitable, and it was just a matter of time before JKR proved that in canon, so why bother fussing about it one way or the other? I like it well enough, it makes reasonable sense to me, and if other people are upset because Harry didn't choose Hermione or Luna or whatever and start attacking Ginny in consequence, I really can't be bothered to argue with them because it's just so silly.

On the other hand, when Harry and Ginny got together, I didn't scream with delight and throw my book up in the air like a true H/G shipper would, I merely nodded in an I-saw-that-coming kind of way and kept going. I reserved my screaming and book-tossing for the "I, the Half-Blood Prince!" line, which goes to show once more that really, these books might as well be called "Severus Snape and the [Random Object Here]" as far as I'm concerned...

[ozratbag2]

Hmm...most of the ones I thought of initially are already tagged, so here goes...

Albus Dumbledore

[rj_anderson]

I agree with a_t_rain's recent rant/essay about Dumbledore: I think he's good and that JKR means us to see him as good, and that while he may be strategic in his thinking and occasionally oblivious to certain people's feelings, he is neither a habitual liar nor a cold-blooded manipulator. In other words, contrary to the attitude of some fans, we are not going to see JKR turn around and inform us in Book Seven that Dumbledore is "really" just as bad as Voldemort in his own way -- or even imply it.

[infiniteviking]

Really? Eeee!

..Peter and Harriet Wimsey.