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1. Character: Grumpy - Grumpy from snow white and the seven dwarfs. Grumpy spends his whole life in a mean. His traits include being overly rude, sour, and condescending. Grumpy tends to be irritated with the other dwarfs antics. No matter what anyone says grumpy is complaining or disagreeing. Grumpy basically all around is a mean person besides when his friends are in trouble, then he is the first person to the rescue.

2. Protagonist: Harry Potter - Harry Potter is an orphan where on his eleventh birthday he finds out that he is a wizard. Harry goes to a school called Hogwarts. The school Harry goes to is for wizards and witches. throughout the movie series Harry is transformed from a timid little kid to a strong hero by the end of the movie. …show more content…

Static: Rubeus Hagrid - Hagrid is an oafish clumsy giant who works as a groundskeeper at Hogwarts. Hagrid is an all around nice person and is very caring, he is always by Harrys side no matter what. He has a long beard that is black and gray with black hair. Hagrid is a static character because everything about him stays the same throughout the whole story. Nothing throughout the story makes Hagrid different, he is always happy and clumsy.

5. Dynamic: Professor Quirrell - Professor Quirrell is a teacher at Hogwarts who appears to be a harmless man with a stutter. He is a teacher of defense against the dark arts at Hogwarts. He seems in the beginning and throughout most of the story as nervous and timid. He is so timid that when he announced there was a troll in the school he fainted. After a wile we learn that he is a lying conniver.

6. Stereotypical: Hermione Granger - Hermione is stereotyped as a nerd because she is very smart and a math genius. At first she is an annoying goody two shoes and a know it all who obeys the school rules. Hermione becomes friends with Harry after learning to value friendship over school. She is stereotypical because she is a goody twos shoes and gets all A's in school. She has brown hair and her and harry have a very strong relationship …show more content…

Round: Ron Weasley - Ron is a round character because not only is he nice he is funny too and he also has a mean mad side to him. He is a round character because he has so many different aspects and traits of him. He is shy and comes from an impoverished wizard family. He is close friends with Harry and he lacks his charisma and style. He shows audience that its about hard work and modesty rather than family connections. Ron is always seeming to get beat up in the movies and stories. Ron is also selfless and generous and since he has so many traits that makes him a round character.

8. Flat: Cho Chang - Cho Chang is a very flat character because all he does is play Quidditch and is very good at it. She is the seeker of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team and when she smiles at Harry he gets a jolt in his stomach. Cho is very pretty with her looks and also is Harrys ex girlfriend who he previously dated for a while. The reason she is flat is because her only trait is being good at Quidditch. The story gives us no other traits from her other than being good at

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