Rules: There may be spoilers for all seven books and 8 movies Each match will last for exactly 24 hours. Any votes after that point will not count. Discussion is encouraged but not required. Make sure all of your votes are obvious. I should know who you are voting for, basically don't bury your vote in the middle of a paragraph. No alt-voting. Ties will be replayed the next day with the rest of the matches. No vote-saves or rallying for specific characters. Telling people to vote is encouraged but don't tell them how to vote! Don't complain about the seeds, they were the result of a save-my. Because matches can overlap, results will be in this topic. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/61327435
This seems like a fairly easy choice. Nagini is a snake who doesn't even have her own personality thanks to Voldemort sticking his soul in her. Griphook is actually pretty awesome in book 7, and a fascinating insight into how goblins actually think. Like...him being super pissed when the tiara gets passed from wizard to wizard instead of returning to the goblin that made it. Like...feeling that the sword of Gryffindor is not actually Gryffindor's, but was stolen. (Gotta wonder how Griphook reacted when the sword teleported out of his grasp and into the Sorting Hat so Neville could kill Nagini).
(3)Draco Malfoy (14)Norbeta
A pet with no particular personality, versus a pretty solid character, who is not clearly good or evil (pretty damn rare for this series). Yeah, easy choice.
(7)Helena Ravenclaw (10)Albus Severus Potter
Ooooh, the strongest of the epilogue characters! Someone who might actually deserve to win a match if he's up against a particularly weak opponent. And his opponent literally only exists in one chapter! Wait, no, Helena still has about triple his lines, and a pretty fascinating backstory, and even her more recent history is kinda interesting--it's fascinating that she confided in Tom Riddle when she didn't confide in anyone before him. Yeah, I can see arguing for Albus Serverus, but I'm leaning Helena.
(2)Fleur Delacour (15)Hugo Weasley
Hugo...Hugo...Hugo...oh, an epilogue-only character. Does he have...a single line..at all? Like...I'm running some searches, and I literally can't find a quote from him. I don't even have much to say about Fleur; her personality seems to be "French" and "part Veela" and "likes Bill". But that's still better than...what's his name again?
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Eww at this half-division. Probably the weakest in the whole contest. Malfoy is easily my favorite out of the bunch and even he's just barely if at all in my top 25.
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I'm... surprisingly indifferent to this match. It's an interesting character introduced in the last book vs. an interesting tool of an interesting villain introduced much earlier and yet, though I think they're both interesting I've no emotional attachment to either. I'm voting for Nagini here because I liked the puppetmaster-esque Bathilda Bagshot scene. It was... delightfully eerie.
(3)Draco Malfoy (14)Norbeta
Dragons are cool. And Draco becomes significantly less cool the further the books progress. But Norberta's a character for all of five minutes. So... no.
(7)Helena Ravenclaw (10)Albus Severus Potter
I hate this kid's name, like I seriously hate it. It's just a smidge below Renesme tier of bad name. Anyway that's not why I'm not voting for him. Helena just has a far more interesting story behind her than "offspring of the chosen one". And to make it even worse Al seems to be the less interesting of the Potter Boys. At least Jimmy has a mischievous side, taunting his baby bro about ending up in Slytherin whereas Al is... a bit nervous about his first year, to parallel his father. Iono it kind of worked for Harry considering he was raised as a Muggle and it would make sense for him to be bewildered at the idea of a wizarding school, but Al would've been surrounded by magic throughout his youth. Eh.
(2)Fleur Delacour (15)Hugo Weasley (17) Neither
Yuck. I adamantly refuse to vote for Fleur, but I also refuse to antivote her with such a weak character. Bleh.
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GenesisSaga posted... I'm... surprisingly indifferent to this match. It's an interesting character introduced in the last book vs. an interesting tool of an interesting villain introduced much earlier
Technically speaking Griphook was introduced in book 1 >_>
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Oh yeah he's the one who opened Harry's... vault or whatever. Well it wasn't a spectacular introduction considering I forgot about it, but you are correct. V_V
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