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This week’s topic is-

Top Ten Most Memorable Secondary Characters

(this is obviously going to be a bit Potter heavy- sorry)

1.  The Weasly Family from the Harry Potter Series

I want to hang with this family SO bad-ok maybe not Percy, but a big yes to each and every one of them!!

2.  Haymitch AND Cinna from The Hunger Games series

I LOVE Cinna-the only person in the entire capital that is real.

And Haymitch- oooh, the suffering of watching all those kids die for over 20 years.

3.  Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter series

When he gets the winning points for the House Cup because he stood up to his friends, I knew he was going to be a great guy!

4.  Ceila Foote from The Help

Actually liked her depiction in the movie even more than I liked her character in the book- best part?  When she writes the check out to Hilly Two Slice.

5.  Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief

He was awesome- that’s all.

6.  Mr. Bennet from Pride & Prejudice

Patience of a saint to deal with that wife!  Would love to lock myself in a beautiful library also.

7.  Melanie Wilkes from Gone With The Wind

I love how Scarlet is just dying to truly hate this woman, but she just can’t- and Melanie can not for the life of her think anything bad about Scarlet.

8.  Helen Burns from Jane Eyre

This poor girl- stick up for yourself, dammit!!!

(never knew Elizabeth Taylor played her)

9.  Professor Snape from the Harry Potter series

The character I loved to hate the MOST- up until the very end of book 7, that is.  What an amazing love he had!

10.  Death from The Book Thief

One of my favorite quotes from this book can explain why I loved this character (also a little sad to realize through the trailers that he is NOT in the movie- hmph!)

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn’t already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race–that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

All I was able to do was turn to Liesel Meminger and tell her the only truth I truly know. I said it to the book thief and I say it now to you.

* * * A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR * * *
I am haunted by humans.

What other secondary character do you love?