I really dislike Mrs Weasley.

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She is an awful character, she seems to prefer Harry to Ron and is mean to Fleur. She is also a bit of a stereotype, the apron, the knitting, the homemaker etc. Which literary characters annoy you and why?

Yes also to Frodo, we all know Samwise was the true hero of that film. Frodo was a miserable selfish prick and he was lucky Sam saved him soooo many times.

Emma Woodhouse needs a slap round the chops.

But that's the point really

I love molly weasley. She wasn't perfect but she loved deeply, all of her children and when Fred died, the description of her reaction breaks me, just to think about.

The issue I have with Harry's parents is their age, born in 1960, died 1981, so they were only 21 when they died, Harry was 1, so 20 when they had him. And they had been members of the order... always felt like they were older. But then I suppose Rowling needed Remus and Sirius to still be relatively young when we meet them. It just never sat right with me their age!

Harry Potter for me to an extent as well. He's alright in the beginning, then in the middle he gets a massive ego and starts behaving like a spoilt brat who deserves to be consulted and advised on everything that's going on. And again, he gets treated like a hero time and time again, when he's not actually that good a wizard, he's mostly lucky and Hermione (and others) are much more responsible for how successful he is at defeating Voldemort.

Alright, absolute hatred: Bellatrix Lestrange, The Malfoys, Voldemort of course (seriously just die already).

Never liked James Potter - Bully.

I don't like Sirius Black or Remus Lupin. Find Sirius completely irresponsible as a mentor to Harry, and Remus just thoroughly irritates me for absolutely no reason whatsoever - I literally feel jittery with rage when reading his parts sometimes melodramatic, I know

Frodo is rubbish. Samwise is the real hero (and also the actor played Winona Ryder's boyfriend Bob in Stranger Things and I loved him)

I don't mind molly Weasley. I wasn't very keen on Harry Ron or hermione.

And Cathy Whatserface from Wuthering Heights. She's such a twat.

Blosstree - I ALWAYS fancied Sirius, my favourite character 😂😂 even more so when Oldman played him in the films

Elizabeth Bennet is smug, judgemental (the second of which obvs is the point) and patronising, especially to her sister Mary.

Hermione and Jo March I'm with PPs. I can't bring myself to dislike Rose, but can see the point. As a senator's daughter it's only her extreme privilege that allows her to get away with behaviour that would see anyone else expelled. And setting up the SSUC does make her a bit of a hypocrite ...

On the topic of school stories: Alicia Johns of Malory Towers is a Class 1 Bitch. Darrell Rivers shares that trait but to a lesser extent: she's boring but a violent bully who always picks on kids who are weaker than herself.

Nelly Dean of Wuthering Heights is a truly malignant witch wearing the guise of a cloak of benevolence.

Maud Bailey of Possession is the kind of academic who thinks she has a monopoly on her chosen research area. Anyone who's ever met these types can attest to what arrogant, smug pains in the arse they truly are.

Adam Dalgleish. I think his target readers are supposed to fancy him - P D James certainly seems to - but despite his love of fine wines and intellectual pursuits he's anti-social, judgemental, has a horror of the sick and the disabled and is sometimes downright cruel.

Miriam Henderson (AKA Dorothy Richardson) delights and irritates me in equal measure.

Aw I love Harry. I completely see where people who dislike him are coming from, though. I just think that his faults make him seem all the more real. And that's what I love about the HP books, they aren't all perfect characters, they're little brats getting too big for their boots and complaining about homework and boring lessons and bickering with friends, like real teenagers I like the juxtaposition of that and the severity of the situations they find themselves in.

I absolutely detest Frodo from LOTR. SUCH a whiny little liability - thank god Sam was there or literally nothing would have gotten done.

Omg so glad it's not just me who thinks this!!!! I cannot stand Frodo

I don't understand why Mrs Weasley doesn't work. Her family are poor to the extent her kids are in tattered clothes, and all her kids are in boarding school from book 2.

Jane Bennet (Bingley)

FFS. Get. A. Personality.

Another one - Bella Swan from Twilight. She's ungrateful, constantly puts herself in danger, often deliberately, and then spends 2 of the 4 books toying with the emotions of Edward and Jacob.

She just doesn't have much going for her, yet she has two (literally superhuman) guys fighting over her and willing to die to protect her.

I liked Mrs Weasleys howlers. Those letters made me laugh, would like that for myself sometimes.

I hate Becky Sharpe (too callous) and Amelia (too wet). My favourite character is William Dobbin. Amelia didn't deserve him.

James Potter sounded like an absolute dickhead too, nasty bully.

Although she is mostly a very admirable character, and exactly what Harry needed in the absence of his own loving parents, there were certain scenes where she was really irritating: mostly at the beginning of Order of the Phoenix, when she has the stance of "not telling Harry more than he needs to know", and she's constantly trying to distract him. Mind you, by then the reader really wants to know what's happening; it's about six chapters in and very little has happened, that book is much too slow to get going, so the reader is probably on Harry's side for that reason. But also I don't like Harry himself, especially when he says "I've got to do it alone". We also have the clash of Harry and Mrs Weasley at the beginning of the last book. "If Dumbledore needed work doing, he had the whole Order at his command! You must have misunderstood him, Harry; he can't have meant the mission to be for you."

Hermione... I mostly liked her, as she's often the level-headed one who saves everything, but she was hypocritical in that she was always pointing out rules, and when she broke one, she revelled in it. And the SPEW ("free the enslaved house-elves!") was really irritating, I'm glad that was left out of the film.

The other literary character I can't stand is Joey Maynard from the Chalet School, because she was so bloody perfect, and I thought quite nasty to her daughter who was less than perfect (Margot).

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Jane Bennet (Bingley)

FFS. Get. A. Personality.

Yes! She's such a wet blanket!

The bit that always annoys me is near the end when Bingley comes back and she's going on to Elizabeth about 'how can you think me in danger now' and all 'I'm completely over him' - she obviously isn't, why can't she be honest even with her closest confidant?

Tonks, even her name winds me up. But outside of Harry Potter, Branden Stark, is an annoying twat, and I agree with PPs about Frodo too.

Oh, and Bellatrix Lestrange but that’s more to do with Helena Bonham Carter whispering all her lines.

I LOVE Molly Weasley. I think she’s lovely, kind to her kids, and the way she mothers Harry is adorable. She also killed Bellatrix, so, you know.

I absolutely hated Delores Umbridge - but she was a character I loved to hate!

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Tonks, even her name winds me up. But outside of Harry Potter, Branden Stark, is an annoying twat, and I agree with PPs about Frodo too.

Oh, and Bellatrix Lestrange but that’s more to do with Helena Bonham Carter whispering all her lines.

I've never read the Game of Thrones books, but in the series - absolutely! Bran is the worst! He's so smug and supercilious, and largely pointless. I spent most of the series hoping he would meet a sticky end.

Darrell and Alicia in Malory Towers.

Harry Potter for me to an extent as well. He's alright in the beginning, then in the middle he gets a massive ego and starts behaving like a spoilt brat who deserves to be consulted and advised on everything that's going on.

Sounds a bit like Daniel Radcliffe!