Book freaks discussion

There's the heroes and heroines, the evil villains, but what about the in-betweens. The best friend, or perhaps the mentor.

Who are your favourite minor characters from books you've read?

I always loved those minor character even more than the main ones sometimes :).
my favorite one is definitely Sirius Black fro the Harry Potter series . I loved him a lot and cried my eyes out when he got killed in the fifth book .now when I reread the books I usually cry in all his parts from book 3 to book 5 :(
great question:)

Yeah I asked because I'm also one of those people who love the minor characters, sometimes even more so than the main ones.

Oooh Sirius Black, that's a good one.

Some of my favourite minor characters would be:

Vlad from the Night Huntress series
Warren from the Mercy Thompson series
Ben from the Mercy Thompson Series
Quinn and Blay from BDB

☆♥Starzee♥☆ wrote: "Yeah I asked because I'm also one of those people who love the minor characters, sometimes even more so than the main ones.

Oooh Sirius Black, that's a good one.

Some of my favourite minor ch..."

Oh I ALWAYS love minor characters? Thank you Starzee for posting this. I just have to say that half of my favorite characters have died BECAUSE they were minor characters!

i love dobby from harry potter
jasper from twilight
Charles Beckendorf & Lee Fletcher in Percy Jackson

nada wrote: "i love dobby from harry potter
jasper from twilight
Charles Beckendorf & Lee Fletcher in Percy Jackson"

WOW those are all my favorite characters from those books too!

And they all died

oh, dobby totally! I was so sad when he died

Finnick from The Hunger Games Trilogy - I LOVED him!

Cindy wrote: "Finnick from The Hunger Games Trilogy - I LOVED him!"

OMG! I so wanted to include him but forgot his name lol. Thanks for reminding me haha!

Sayshisweetie wrote: "oh, dobby totally! I was so sad when he died"

me too, i cried when i read that.

Gorfo wrote: "nada wrote: "i love dobby from harry potter
jasper from twilight
Charles Beckendorf & Lee Fletcher in Percy Jackson"

WOW those are all my favorite characters from those books too!"

well, they all were great minor characters so who wouldn't like them. i was also gonna say Neville longbottom but i didn't know if he's a minor character or not.

I think Neville counts as a minor character

☆♥Starzee♥☆ wrote: "I think Neville counts as a minor character"

then he's on my list as well, he was cute if a bit clumsy.

nada wrote: "☆♥Starzee♥☆ wrote: "I think Neville counts as a minor character"

then he's on my list as well, he was cute if a bit clumsy."

Haha yeah and I think they did a good job of him in the movies too.

I prefer the term "peripheral characters". Dobby was one of my favorites from the Harry Potter series but I got really strange looks from the librarians: not too many 60 year old women were borrowing Harry Potter books from the library. I enjoy the Anita Blake series because her peripheral characters are all so well drawn.

I think you can tell how well a series is written by how well the author shapes the other characters. Obviously other aspects come into play as well, but one thing for me that determines how good the series is is the development of minor characters.

I liked Cinna from the Hunger Games. He's really funny.

Also I agree, Neville should count. He is actually one of my favorite characters from those books. I always felt sorry for him because Malfoy picked on him.

☆♥Starzee♥☆ wrote: "nada wrote: "☆♥Starzee♥☆ wrote: "I think Neville counts as a minor character"

then he's on my list as well, he was cute if a bit clumsy."

Haha yeah and I think they did a good job of him in t..."

yup, definitely.

Sacha wrote: "I liked Cinna from the Hunger Games. He's really funny.

Also I agree, Neville should count. He is actually one of my favorite characters from those books. I always felt sorry for him because Malfo..."

not to mention snape, he was always mean with him.

rereading the "Black Jewels Trilogy" last week and really enjoyed the following characters: Geoffrey, Draca, Lorn, Daemonar,Surreal...even the villains were well done: Greer, Heketah, Dorothea

i was sad when cinna died too but i was REALLY sad when Finnick dies.NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Oh yay, thanks for ruining that for me LMAO I still haven't read Mockingjay.

Nicole wrote: "i was sad when cinna died too but i was REALLY sad when Finnick dies.NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

I totally agree!!! I feel so sorry for Annie and cinna shouldn.t have died! :(
Sorry Starzee!

Sayshisweetie wrote: "Nicole wrote: "i was sad when cinna died too but i was REALLY sad when Finnick dies.NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

I totally agree!!! I feel so sorry for Annie and cinna shouldn.t have died! :(
Sorry Starzee!"

Nobody should've died in that book. They just suddenly decided to kill everyone I loved in Mockinjay.

LOL I wonder why she decided to kill them off?

I'm reading and I have to say that Puck is an amazing minor character =D So is Grimalkin!

☆♥Starzee♥☆ wrote: "I'm reading and I have to say that Puck is an amazing minor character =D So is Grimalkin!"

I've never read it, i'll have to check it out!

It's very magical, and is loosley related to a Midsummer nights Dream

nada wrote: "i love dobby from harry potter
jasper from twilight
Charles Beckendorf & Lee Fletcher in Percy Jackson"

Dobby is on my list.

You know one day we had a retreat and everybody was coming clean about their life and crying and I started bawling about Dobby dying.

I love Dobby. I still cry about Dobby. Him and Hedwig but especially him.

I haven't cried on retreat about him though. That's pretty good.

Ellie wrote: "I love Dobby. I still cry about Dobby. Him and Hedwig but especially him.

I haven't cried on retreat about him though. That's pretty good."

Yep, just goes to show that authors really don't know what they might be doing when the pencil in a death. I think Dobby dying is one of the most traumatizing experiences of my life.

I totally have to agree with Neville and Dobby (definitely cried when he died), but I also loved Luna. She was a bit quirky but always meant well, I loved how she was portrayed in the movies.

Danielle wrote: "I totally have to agree with Neville and Dobby (definitely cried when he died), but I also loved Luna. She was a bit quirky but always meant well, I loved how she was portrayed in the movies."

I think Luna really began to shine in the last book you know when the trio goes to Xenophilius Lovegood's house and Luna isn't there and they see the pictures of themselves that say friends...like I swear I said "awwww" out loud and I kinda felt bad for thinking ill of Luna at all...not that I ever thought of her that way (shifty eyes)

I at times thought she was really strange and never really paid her much attention, kind of thought she was a bit annoying to the trio, but at the end of the book I realized how much she really did care about them all

Danielle wrote: "I at times thought she was really strange and never really paid her much attention, kind of thought she was a bit annoying to the trio, but at the end of the book I realized how much she really did..."

ya pretty much, nicely put!

Well, it depends on what we consider a minor character.

As for me, I loved Lupin in the HP series :). Also, Cinna from Hunger Games.

Ohh, I loved cinna. My favorite side character from hp is Luna lovegood.

Finnick from the Hunger Games!

Cinna from "The Hunger Games"
Kral from "Wit'ch Fire"
Remus Lupin from "Harry Potter"

Maya and Trevor from My Wolf's Bane
Julie and Derek from Magic Bites

Ooh. Oh, oh, oh.
Okay. To name a few:
~ Matthew Collins (Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson)
~ Kenji Kishimoto (Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi)
~ the Stoll brothers (PJO by Rick Riordan)
~ Gideon & Gabriel Lightwood (The Infernal Devices by Cassie Clare)
~ Gilbert Blythe (Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery)

... wow. They're all dudes. I hadn't noticed. What can I say, I'm attracted to the opposite gender.
Here I'll try mentioning a couple girls:
~ Izzy Lightwood (TMI by Cassie Clare)
~ Rachel Elizabeth Dare (PJO by Rick Riordan)
~ Mor (A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas)
~ Lysandra (Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas)
~ Ringer (The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey)

Done.