Top Ten Harry Potter Characters with Wasted Potential

Characters who could or should have been better-handled.
The Top Ten
1 Ginny Weasley Ginny Weasley is a prominent character in the "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling. She is the youngest child and only daughter of the Weasley family. Initially introduced as a shy girl with a crush on Harry Potter, Ginny develops into a strong, independent young woman. Skilled in magic and Quidditch, she plays a pivotal role in the fight against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters.

There should've been more build up between her character and Harry's if the author wanted her to be a love interest. We should've also seen more of her personality and it would've been nice to have her interact more with the trio after all she is Ron's sister so they would've been around her a lot. It's just disappointing that a character that we see grow up is so underutilized.

She is a great character. Just made smaller appearances in books 1-4. People think of the Ginny who blushed around Harry but she was not really like that she was just a kid.

Underrated and badly scripted. She is way stronger than the movies showed. Only Reducto was the real blast she should have been in the whole series!

Yes Finally, I am a HUGE Ginny fan and am so pleased to see her first. Take that hermione! She is the best female much better than hermioen and Loony, yay go Ginny!

2 Nymphadora Tonks

I loved her in OotP but she became pathetic in HBP moping over Lupin and she was never the same again. She could have been able to show off her badass auror abilities but JKR ruined her and made her get pregnant and be a wife. Terrible!

Bravo,Rowling! Good job on reducing a badass with potential to some clingey fangirl.

3 Fleur Delacour Fleur Weasley, née Delacour, is a character in the "Harry Potter" series written by J.K. Rowling. She hails from France and initially comes to Hogwarts as a participant in the Triwizard Tournament. Fleur later marries Bill Weasley and becomes a part of the Weasley family. Known for her beauty and charisma, she is also a capable witch who fights bravely in the Second Wizarding War.
4 Cho Chang

She was Harry's dream girl for so many years then tragedy strikes her life. We mainly see her crying or flirting. A real waste. Harry also drops her almost immediately after he has a chance with her and that's about it for her character. Although Harry was trying to get with her right after her boyfriend died what was he expecting that she was going to get over it so quickly? He should've waited to make a move and try getting to know her better first because we barely see them interacting at all before they go to kiss.

Harry just had puppy love. A pretty, popular girl, who was a Quidditch Seeker and a Ravenclaw.
He had the worst first kiss.
Cho thought he was cheating on their first date.
In her sixth year most of her friends left her and she just had one friend hanging around with her and she was a traitor when they had to learn defense Against The Dark Arts (Ron's dad also does and Ron doesn't have sneak on his face. They knew very well not to make sure Umbridge found out so Hermione didn't need to tell them about the list. They could've been expelled)

5 Kingsley Shacklebolt
6 Ron Weasley Ronald Bilius "Ron" Weasley is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. His first appearance was in the first book of the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as the best friend of Harry Potter and Hermione Granger.

Ron is underrated, but I think JKR did a good job with his character in the books. His potential was not wasted at all

The movies SHOULDN'T have given all of his cool moments to Hermione!

7 Percy Weasley

His character just kinda drops outta existence only to be talked about once in a great while.

YES! Finally, other Percy supporters! Siriusly, I understand Audrey

8 Viktor Krum

I think he was great and he was a better boyfriend than Ron

9 Astoria Greengrass
10 Dolores Umbridge
The Contenders
11 Harry Potter Harry James Potter is the title character of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The majority of the books' plot covers seven years in the life of the orphan Potter, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard.

He is not a wimp.
Would a wimp do what he did in all of the books.
Save the Philosopher's Stone. Face a three headed dog - So calling him a wimp.
Would a wimp kill a Basilisk
Would a wimp believe a man is out to kill him and wants to kill him for hearing he killed his parents but was framed and then he fights the dementors.
Would a wimp do the three tasks of the tri wizard tournament
Would a wimp agree to start Dumbledores Army, then go to the department of mysteries.
Would a wimp go to that cave with Dumbledore
Would a wimp fight in a wizarding war.
The only wimp is you for typing that.

He was okay but he really could've been better-handled. Maybe less whinier and less mean particularly toward Slytherin.

12 Neville Longbottom
13 Katie Bell

I love Katie Bell, but I feel she wasn't explored enough by JK... I felt sorry for her when she is cursed and it should have shown more if her after that!

14 Hermione Granger
15 Gohan Son Gohan is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. Gohan is introduced as the first son of the protagonist Goku, and his wife Chi-Chi, in chapter #196 Kakarrot, first published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on October 24, 1988. Chi-Chi is a strict and protective mother to Gohan, forcing him to focus on his studies and forbidding him from practicing martial arts. However, due to the various threats to the Earth, she reluctantly allows him to fight, with him ultimately becoming one of the strongest characters in the series. Gohan has been well received by both fans and critics, the latter usually citing the character's growth from his initial appearance ...read more.

People who think Harry is one of the worst characters should go to Dragon Ball.

He's not even a character

16 Arnold the Pygmy Puff
17 Luna Lovegood Luna Lovegood was a witch from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. She was the only child of Xenophilius and Pandora Lovegood. Her mother accidentally died while experimenting with spells when Luna was nine and Luna was raised by her father, who was the editor of the magazine The Quibbler, in a rook-like house near the village of Ottery St Catchpole in Devon. ...read more.

She's my favorite character but we should have gotten to see more of her character and she should've displayed more emotions.

Yes, Luna should have not just acted angry and kind, but bossy, rude, thoughtful, logical... and more. And J.K should have least put her in the fourth book.

She could've been put in the fourth book, her surname came up at The Quidditch World Cup.

18 Angelina Johnson
19 Padma Patil
20 Scorpius Malfoy
21 Dean Thomas

Could have been nicer

22 James Potter
23 Barty Crouch Jr.
24 Draco Malfoy Draco Lucius Malfoy is a character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. He is a student in Harry Potter's year belonging in the Slytherin house.
25 Percy Jackson Perseus "Percy" Jackson is a fictional character, the title character and narrator of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.
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