I love Cedric>33 He's good looking, brave, loyal, kind, fair, honorable, modest and polite. I can't really find any fault with him. He was modest about being a Triwizard Champion and modest about beating Harry at Qudditch. He didn't hold any malice against Harry for being the 4th champion even if most of the Hufflepuffs did.

Harry, Ron, the Weasley twins, James, Sirius, Remus, and Neviile would follow behind on my list of favorite males.

Lucius too.

But the HP fandom have gotten annoyingly extreme and frequent in their hatred of Snape lately. Cool, you don't like him for being bitter and angsty and mean, and he is all of those things. But he did constantly risk his life and health to bring about good, in a highly skilled and dedicated manner (Dumbledore says it is a job he'd "entrust to nobody but Snape"). It wasn't just because he was obsessed with Lily. He ultimately choose to end Voldemort over his dedication to Lily and her son when he showed Harry that he must die. He put himself on the line to save people that had nothing to do with Lily. He made himself a pariah to his allies and likely forfeited any chance of his own future by killing Dumbledore . He protected the students of Hogwarts from the Carrows whenever he could. He was probs the ballsiest dude in the entire series (though Regulus was also pretty ballsy).

Oooh I like Regulus too. Underrated character.

Tl;dr Ffs fandom quit your constant bitching about Snape

@ThePirnces Tale I understand your feelings.To me, the fandom is showing unnecessary hatred towards James. Yeah, he made mistakes as a teenager, but he grew up, fought for what was right (by joining the ootp) and proved to be a good family. But yet, people choose to ignore all the good he did and only focus on him bullying Snape.

I agree with that too. Yeah they both fucked up in their early years but holy shit that doesn't make them the person they are for the rest of their life, lol. They were both very much redeemed in my eyes.

Also the fandom has been unceasingly bashing Dumbeldore in the last few years, saying he was "Machiavellian" and "the ultimate Slytherin" and "didn't care about Harry, only his own ends". Lol, did we read the same books? I really don't know what the fandom expects from Dumbledore other than what he did - it was inevitable that he had an overarching plan to defeat Voldemort, and he wasn't "cold" or "uncaring" that he put it in place. He had to do it. I think that's very evident from the books.

Anyway yeah a few weird (and wrong IMO) ideas about characters have gained popularity in the HP fandom in the past few years. The opposite trend to the above is the reverse-bashing of Luna I see in some fanfiction: she's some sort of alien incapable of regular human feelings, 100% quirky all of the time, and her conspiracy ramblings become wise and prophetic. It's sort of worshipful but at the same time a shallow portrayal. In canon, she isn't a secret genius, and most of the crazy things she believes aren't real. She has more than one emotion - she's not in a perpetual state of dreamy aloofness, but gets offended/amused/hurt just like any other person. She has flaws, it's just that the trio see past them to accept her.

Soz for the rant lol

@ThePrinces Tale Thanks:) I agree with you. Both James and Snape made horrible mistakes when they were young, but they both made up for it. It's not fair to demonize either one of them. They deserve both criticism and praise.
True! Even Dumbledore gets bashed. I've read a lot of fanfiction that made him the ultimate bad guy. One fic even makes Voldemort look like an angel next to Dumbledore who is portrayed as fully evil.
And true, fanfiction doesn't usually get Luna's character right.

♥

<333

Always. I think Snape is the most well-written character but Lupin is my favourite.

Also I agree with all the comments here regarding Snape/James. The one thing that bothers me the most in the HP fandom is that so many of the fans either act like Snape was a saint with absolutely no bad qualities OR the Devil incarnate with no good qualities; they only see black and white and that actually goes against one of the main themes of the series, that everyone has shades of grey (except Voldemort + maybe a couple others- I think even with Umbridge & Bellatrix you could argue that they are loyal even if it's for the wrong reasons). It's just so biased. In my opinion he's in the middle; I don't like the way he treated his (non Slytherin) students, or certain actions, but ultimately he was brave and I think anyone who says otherwise needs to reread the series.
That applies to James too, he's somewhere in the middle imo. Basically if you wasn't really a fan of HP and saw some people's comments, depending on the fan you'd assume Snape & James were worse than Vernon Dursley, which is ridiculous.

@Mongoose09 Exactly Mongoose09:)

<33333

Sirius.
Ron.
Remus.
Harry.

I like most of them actually.

Him and George, but I'll vote for Fred since he died (R.I.P.).

I have this real soft spot for Hagrid. I was so relieved when he survived the final book, I think I would have been inconsolable for a while if he had died!

I like his zero to hero character progression.

Impossible to choose!