Like a sore thumb

In any story, whether it's in a movie, book or stage play, it is quite common to see characters with complex backgrounds whether it is the antagonist, protagonist or other major supporting characters, characters with a confilcted history that explains their reason for being so the audience may understand or even sympathize with the characters and their actions. To emphaisze my point, many people find Hanibal Lecter to be one of the most fictional evil characters to be created yet he is not hated in fact there are certain qualities in Lecter that some may find attractive.

To have a character that creates an air of pure annoyance, hatred and revulsion amongst the audience on the other hand might be a little more difficult to find, characters like Dolores Umbridge for instance, these characters I Sincerely believe deserve a special kind of award.

Same old, same old....

A small party goes on a quest to find and destroy items magical and malicious in nature to destroy evil that will soon engulf the land. In their epic quest this small band of unlikely heroes was aided by others including powerful wizards and elves in escaping creatures of the dark and battling the forces of evil, during their journey they also discover friendship, love, betrayal, sorrow and death.

Sorry to dissapoint but I'm not describing Lord of the Rings here (although I could well be), it's that new Harry Potter book everyone's been ranting and raving and lining up at ungodly hours about, I bought it at about 12 o'clock in the afternoon 2 days after the release date and by golly gosh there were still plenty of copies left.

Side note: I remembered a person comenting about the Harry Potter series that he wished he had a book this exciting when he was at school, the man was about the same age as I am. In retrospect mayhap I should have mentioned that we (our generation, and prior) had a better book (not saying this one is bad), published some time ago by another person also with a J.R in his name and I've been reading it since I was 15, plus it made a better movie too.

Chioces

There lay before me 3 choices that I have to make, I know it's only a matter of time before I can take them all but not at once as sacrifices must be made for each choice we make, one must take careful consideration into the choices they make as each choice defines the person.

There lay before me a story of a tragic prince, a series of humorous anecdotes by a strange and possible deranged indivudual and a tome describing the life a boy who is forced to make difficult decissions early in life .