Here's a shout out to Minor Characters Who Made it Big!
Rita Skeeter
"Come on Harry, there's no need to be scared of getting into trouble. We all know you shouldn't really have entered at all. But don't worry about that.
Our readers love a rebel.
Firenze
"That is human nonsense. Trivial hurts, tiny human accidents, these are of no more significance than the scurryings of ants to the wide universe, and are unaffected by planetary movements."
Professor Flitwick
"I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick"
[He makes Dean Thomas write this as detention lines]
The Potato
Hagrid joined them at the table and started peeling his potatoes with a brutality that suggested that each tuber had done him a grea tpersonal wrong.
[Yes, tubers are mentioned a great deal in teh Harry Potter series, from describing garden gnomes, to the kitchens, and other such potato related areas!]
Cormac McLaggen
"Oh look! The Gryffindor Keeper's got hold of one of the Beater's bats."
Harry spun around in midair. Sure enough, McLaggen, for reasons best known to himself, had pulled Peakes's bat from him and appeared to be demonstrating how to hit a bludger at an omcoming Cadwallader.
I absolutely LOVED this character! I'd hate him in real life, but as a character he was brilliant! I actually imagine him to be a bit like James must have been!
Stan Shunpike
Stanley Shunpike, conductor on the popular Wizarding conveyance the Knight Bus, has been arrested on suspicion of Death Eater activity. Mr Shunpike, 21, was taken into custody late last night after a raid on his Clapham home...
"Stan Shunpike, a Death Eater?" said Harry, remembering the spotty youth he had met three years before. "No Way!"
"He might have been put under the Imperius Curse," said Ron reasonably. "You never can tell."
"It doesn't look like it," said Hermione, who was still reading. "It says here he was arrested after he was overheard talking about the Death Eater's secret plans in a pub. If he was under the Imperius Curse, he'd hardly stand about gossiping about their plans, would he?"
