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
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When you've got a pretty-boy monkey on your back constantly calling you a puppet, you hardly want to seem like you're happy to be used. - DSakaCharanJ
Trelawney has screen time, lots of it, and she's hilarious and entertaining.
Kingsley doesn't have screen time, and he's...pretty generic. Like...when I try to name character traits of Kingsley all I can come up with are like "uhh...quiet? Confident? Err...does 'generically good at stuff' count as a personality trait?"
Voldemort, towards the end of the series, honestly feels a little out-of place. This pure-evil villain with no particular depth of character ("I am evil and I want MOAR POWAR") among a cast of fascinating multi-faceted personalities. He's one of these characters, like Hagrid, who was more at-home when the series was a children's novel, and not when it "grew up" and became more serious.
Slughorn is someone the series needed more of. Blatantly, blatantly Slytherin, and yet not evil, not sympathetic to the evil forces, actually ends up personally dueling Voldemort. An excellent grey character--you find his selfishness and his favouritism kind-of despicable, and yet he has a jovial likeableness, and he's clearly on the "good guy" side of the war.
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Cats land on their feet. Toast lands peanut butter side down. A cat with toast strapped to its back will hover above the ground in a state of quantum indecision
(7)Sybill Patricia Trelawney - More developed than Shacklebolt, and entertaining (or at least created entertaining situations)
(10)Horace Slughorn - I am a little tempted to vote Voldemort just to set up the Harry/Voldemort match next round, but I still think Slughorn was the better character. Already explained my reasoning the first time, but basically having a Slytherin who wasn't just a plain old bad guy was good (and there needed to be more of them).
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