Today's Match:
(3)Kingsley Shacklebolt
(7)Sybill Patricia Trelawney
Easy match for me.
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?"
Tie-Breaker:
(3)Lord Voldemort
(10)Horace Slughorn
Another easy one.
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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