Woo boy. Favorite male character… could these questions get any harder?! I’m being entirely serious here. I am so devoted to so many of them that it seems awful to make this decision, but I’ll give it a whirl.
Look, Harry just ain’t my favorite – in fact, I doubt he’s anybody’s favorite, as sad as that may seem. And as much as I adore Ron, especially in the movies, I don’t think he qualifies either. Part of me wants to say Dumbledore, but honestly, he just made me too upset too many times with all of his infinite puzzles that he left a seventeen-year-old boy and his friends to solve without providing any real help at all. For all of his mysterious omniscient wisdom and stuff, Dumbledore was kind of an unsupportive arse when it came to actually stepping up and trying to aid Harry, or at least trying to make Harry’s life a little bit less of a miserable hellhole.
So that leaves me where, exactly? With the Weasley twins, of course. I know they seem like an obvious choice because oh, haha, they’re so funny – they’re the eternal comic relief! But I actually think there’s more to them than surface humor, and those deeper reasons are why they’re my favorites. Fred and George (or should I say Gred and Forge?) are two people who you want to have your back when shit hits the fan. They may stir up trouble and go about their life paths in unorthodox ways, but they’re absolutely brilliant, and they somehow always not only land on their own feet, but they also always seem to wind up holding up about twenty other people as well. I mean, look at their joke shop – they dropped out of school to start it, but it made them and their family wealthier for the first time, and they even branched out from gag goods to products that were used to fight against the Death Eaters. The twins know how to use their rather particular brand of skills (creativity and humor) to better their lives and the lives of others, instead of trying to push to become something they’re not, which is something that many people never figure out. Moreover, they’re not only riotously hilarious, but they also have rock-solid beliefs in right and wrong, and their remarkable bravery in defending those beliefs tends to get lost in the shuffle of their jokes. Think about it: they visibly fought back against Umbridge when no one else did; they hosted PotterWatch despite the risk to their own lives by doing so; without hesitation they organized and led combatants to defend Hogwarts during the final battle.
One last thing (spoiler alert!): I can’t even discuss the fact that Fred died. That was just way too harsh and I cried (oh boy, did I cry) and still have yet to come to terms with it – hence why I didn’t discuss it earlier.
