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TopicBest Harry Potter Character Round 2 Day 16 ft: Oliver WoodvKingsley Shacklebolt
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01/21/12 9:33:00 PM
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(6)Oliver Wood
(3)Kingsley Shacklebolt

Hmmmm....I'm pretty sure Oliver Wood has more screen time than Kingsley Shacklebolt.

What does Oliver Wood do? Umm...well he's part of an excellent scene where McGonigal goes searching for "wood", and then he...runs some Quidditch practices and gives some speeches that the Weasly twins have memorized. And he explains the game of Quidditch to Harry. And he screams sacrilidge when the teachers start talking about stripping down a Firebolt, as if some deep holy symbol has been urinated on. And...he plays for Puddlemere United after graduating, I believe?

What does Kingsley do? He...guards the muggle prime minister. He appears on Potterwatch and says some generic stuff. I think he was the one in charge of the search for Sirius, and has a somewhat funny conversation with Arthur at the ministry where they talk about molly making meatballs. And he gets made minster of magic at the end.

Ok, that's my first pass; Wood's definitely in the lead, let me pull up some wikis to see what I missed.

Kingsley: he was in the scene in book 5 where Dumbledore makes his escape from fudge. He cast a memory charm.
"The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming."
Ok, that's a pretty awesome line; not sure how I forgot about it.

Oliver:
"Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She - er - got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about you staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch on it first. Honestly, the way she was yelling at me ... you'd think I'd said something terrible."
Yessssss
Oh right, Oliver tried to keep Harry a secret weapon for his first match.
Oooh, Harry offered his resignation from the Quidditch team, and Oliver refused to accept it, forgot about that.
Oh right, early Quidditch scenes were better--forgot about that. Snape referreeing, and Oliver's outrage. Malfoy buying ridiculously good brooms for the entire Slytherin team, and Oliver's plans for that. Double booked Quidditch pitches where Oliver confronted Beltchy or whatever his name was.
Oliver declines the offer of a rematch from Cedric after Harry falls off his broom from dementors.
Oliver is the one who pushed Harry to learn dementor defence (which led to learning the Patronus charm).
Aw yeah, Oliver ordered Harry to knock Cho Chang off her broom.

You know, I think I was initially leaning towards Kingsley because I had read the last three books more recently and assumed Oliver's scenes weren't that great, but Oliver actually has quite a few good scenes that I hadn't thought about at first, and the screen-time gap is actually very large.

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(2)Buckbeak

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