-Today, we are going to be doing another tier ranking video.
It's going to be all about Harry Potter characters.
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When I did my last tier ranking video,
this is probably the one that was requested the most,
so let's talk about some opinions.
I will say I really, really enjoyed the comment section
of my last tier video because it was really fun to see
how other people would rank things
and how different people's rankings are.
l also got the odd comment of, "This ranking video is very biased,"
so just go ahead and address that right now.
This is going to be a biased video.
I'm talking about how I would rank things.
Let's do it.
I posted it on Instagram and asked people to give me
a Harry Potter character.
I randomly selected some of them, and then dumped them
onto a tier ranking list.
So, let's do it.
This randomizes everything.
The first one up is going to be Kreacher.
I love Kreacher's character because he is loyal to a person
and not a cause.
We get to see such an amazing arc for him from Book 5,
when he's introduced, to Book 7.
Actually, we get to see a great arc in Harry
and the people in how they treat Kreacher,
but I love Kreacher's character arc overall.
Before we rank him, let me talk to you
about these tier lists, I forgot to do that.
At the bottom, we have "Avada Kedavra,"
people we just need to off.
We have "Get out, you shouldn't be dead,
but please leave the room."
"Love to Hate," I had to create this tier
for a Harry Potter character ranking because there are
too many great villains, and I would have no idea
how to rank them by how much I love them
as a reader, or by how much I hate them
as a person.
Then, we have "Good," "Great," we have "Protect them at all costs"
for the really truly amazing characters,
and then we have the "Neville" tier.
To answer another comment that I got a lot
on the last tier list,
I have no idea why red is the top and green is the bottom.
I don't color-code these.
Kreacher, you, my friend, you may not be a good person
because your morality is irrelevant, it's all about who you're loyal to,
but I do love you so very much.
I'm going to put you in the "Great" tier.
You are a great character.
Gilderoy Lockhart, probably my favorite non-antagonist ever.
He's terrible.
He's a terrible person, but he is so fantastic.
He is the best part of Book 2, which is, in my opinion,
the worst book.
Gilderoy Lockhart,
you are great.
You may suck, but you are great.
Fred and George, we're going to protect them at all costs.
We don't even need to discuss it before we rank them,
that's where they belong.
They're not just the comedic relief.
There's a lot of depth to them.
They're also fiercely loyal to their family,
and they are there in the final battle
and they are thrilled.
No matter how much they sacrifice, no matter how much they do
for everybody around them, they will always still be cheerful
in the midst of all of it.
We're not going to talk about the thing that happens
in Book 7 because, in my mind, they are still the twins,
and they will forever be together.
Neville Longbottom is the next one on this list.
I mean, what can I say?
I made a whole video about him, and I called it a head-canon,
what I would have loved to see happen in the series,
but let's be real.
It was an excuse to make a Neville Longbottom hype video.
He belongs in the very top tier.
Next, we have Ginny Weasley, which, if you've only watched the movies,
you may not understand why in the world
she would matter at all,
but in the books, she has such a great arc.
She goes from this timid, shy fan girl for Harry
and the youngest in the family.
Over time, we see her character grow to this character
with so much confidence who stands up to her brothers
and to the people around her, someone who's incredibly strong
and someone who is right alongside Neville
in that last book when the trio weren't at Hogwarts anymore,
and we had a select few of the Dumbledore's army
that were standing up and raising morale
and fighting against the people that were running the school.
Ginny is strong and brave.
I love seeing where she came from and getting
to where we landed with her.
I don't really care about her and Harry together,
but I don't mind it.
She's amazing, and we're going to--
Is she great, or do we protect her at all costs?
This is going to be controversial decision,
If I don't put her in protect her at all costs,
how do I feel about Ginny Weasley?
I'm putting her "Great."
Sorry.
I apologize in advance.
Next, we have Peeves the Poltergeist.
Thank you whoever sent me that one because I never would have thought
of that on my own.
Peeves, Peeves is a great character for the amount of pages he gets.
When he's on the page, I enjoy him.
When he's off the page, I'm glad he's gone.
If he had more page time, I'd probably hate him.
I'm so glad that he wasn't in the movies
because that would have been terrible to adapt.
It's kind of like how a lot of people who only watch the movies
hate Dobby because he's a difficult character
to adapt.
They mostly made him annoying for people
that don't have context for him.
Peeves would have been worse.
Peeves,
you know what, you're just going to be "Good."
If I had a fine category, he'd be there.
He exists.
I'm fine with him, but I don't need more of him.
Next, we have Dobby,
who, let's be real, there's a reason he annoys
people that don't have a full context for him.
He is so sweet and he tries so hard, but he is also such a hindrance
in a lot of situations, but he also saves Harry's life
and other people's lives a lot.
He simply has a heart of gold.
We love him.
This one's going to be controversial too.
Do we protect him at all costs or is he just great?
See, "Protect him at all costs," that's a high tier for me.
I don't know.
I'm going to put him there.
Don't hate me that I agree.
That's where he belongs.
Hagrid is in a similar vein to Dobby.
He's sweet.
He has a heart of gold.
He is there for Harry.
He loves Harry.
He takes care of Harry.
He takes in this kid who's been abused his entire life,
neglected, given nothing of his own, and constantly starved.
Hagrid, what does he do?
He takes him into his home.
He listens to him.
He talks to him.
He feeds him.
It's bad food and half the time he gets Harry in trouble
or in dangerous situations, because, just like Dobby,
he can't really help himself.
We love him, and he deserves to be protected at all costs too.
This is Fenrir Greyback or however you say his name.
He...
...is the worst.
If there's a worst Death Eater, it's Bellatrix.
If there's a second-worst, it's him.
Even Draco is not happy.
When Draco is a Death Eater, letting the Death Eaters
infiltrate Hogwarts,
bringing them into the school, he's very unhappy
that Greyback is there.
He hates him.
We all hate him.
He's a disturbing character.
I'm just going to go ahead and kill him.
He's the one that bit Lupin.
He has a special taste for biting children.
He's a horrifying person.
We're just going to kill him. We don't love to hate him.
He's dead.
Professor McGonagall, one of the only responsible adults
from Book 1 to Book 7.
One of the only adults that would actually be useful
to have in your life as a kid.
Frankly, she's pretty much the cream of the crop.
She's phenomenal.
We will protect her at all costs.
Now, we have Bellatrix Lestrange, which as I've already mentioned,
is the most horrifying Death Eater.
She's way more scary than Volde.
I hate her, but I'm glad she's around
because she's a really competent bad guy.
She tortured Hermione.
She killed Sirius Black.
She tortured Neville Longbottom's parents
into insanity.
Nope, nope, we're just going to kill her.
I hate her, I hate her.
Lavender Brown, another one that I definitely would not have thought of
if someone didn't send her in.
For my sweet Lavender who dated Won-Won for a while there,
gifted him terrible jewelry,
we're going to kick her out of the room.
Cornelius Fudge, you're everything wrong
with the world.
Get out.
Wormtail is an antagonist that I don't care about
in the slightest.
I don't think he was poorly built up.
I think that his character arc is fine.
I think that his interaction with Harry and Volde is fine.
I just genuinely don't care about him.
He's never been a character I've been invested in.
He's never a character I've hated the way I should
or had some compassion for or anything.
I feel nothing about him, so we're just going to kick him
out of the room.
Molly Weasley, she does her best by her family,
always makes sure that they have a hot meal,
takes care of the home, and brought Harry in
as one of her own.
She more than once says that Harry is good
as one of her sons.
When she has the Boggart thing happened to her
in Book 5
where there's a cycle of all of her children
and her husband, all of her family lying on the floor dead
because it's her greatest fear, Harry is in that cycle
because he is like a son to her.
She brought him in when he didn't have a family.
She and Arthur became Harry's family.
She may not be perfect, but she is great.
Rita Skeeter, another one that I would not have thought of
were it not for you guys.
Do you know what? We're kicking her out of the room.
We don't need to discuss it.
Get out. She is also everything wrong with the world.
Remus Lupin.
If anyone deserves to be in the Neville tier,
alongside Neville, it would be him.
Probably the only father figure of the several that he had
throughout the series, probably the only father figure
that was actually good at it and took care of him very well.
Hagrid tried.
He's sweet and lovable, but he also made a lot of mistakes.
Sirius tried, but he was very damaged from his time in Azkaban
and really treated Harry more as a friend
than as a fatherly figure.
Dumbledore tried,
but he raised him as a pig for a slaughter.
Lupin, Lupin.
I can make a whole video about Lupin.
Lupin deserves all the good things in the world.
Draco Malfoy, I did make a whole video about him.
That'll be out on Saturday.
I'm not going to say much about him because I have a whole video
where I said much about him.
I'm just going to put him in the "Good" tier
because it's the most neutral tier I have.
We're just going to leave it there
and let that video break down how I feel about him.
I don't think he belongs in the "Good" tier,
but I don't want to spoil things.
These were randomly selected.
Luna Lovegood, voiceover Murphy here because I wasn't completely satisfied
with my original hyping of Luna Lovegood.
She is brave, strong, dadgum smart, one of the few that stood up
with Neville in the DA in Book 7
challenging the people that were running Hogwarts.
She's amazing, but because she's a little bit different,
she is bullied and picked on.
If anybody deserves to be protected at all costs, it's Luna.
Dolores Umbridge,
we love to hate her.
She is the most compelling antagonist in the Harry Potter series,
in my opinion, because she's the most real one.
We all know an Umbridge,
and it was a little bit too real.
In fact, my husband didn't start reading
the Harry Potter series until we were married.
When he got to Book 5, he almost quit the series
because he hated Umbridge so much he couldn't handle it.
She's a fantastic antagonist, she's too real, but she's a good one.
Then, we're going to end this on Nymphadora Tonks,
which, if I created the order,
it probably wouldn't have ended it here
because Nymphadora Tonks is a character
that I feel nothing about.
In the books, she was fun.
She could change your hair, she made her nose a snout sometimes,
she was sweet with the kids, she was a good time.
I really didn't ever develop any sort of attachment to her whatsoever.
I'm going to put her in the "Good" tier
and leave her there.
That'll be the end of that.
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There you go, that is how I would rank
the Harry Potter characters that were sent to me randomly.
I intentionally didn't take any of the randomly selected options
of the trio
because I just wanted to talk about side characters.
That's a lot more interesting, but I really enjoyed this
and I'm excited to see how you guys would break things.
What did you agree with?
What did you disagree with?
Be sure to keep chatting with me about it in the comments.
I post videos every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
I'll see you guys again soon.
Bye.
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