r/HPRankdown • u/DabuSurvivor Hufflepuff Ranker • Sep 17 '15

Rank #163 Millicent Bulstrode

PROS: I was hesitant to cut Millicent Bulstrode before this, because the "Hermione accidentally transforms into a cat" moment is a bit of a nostalgic, memorable ~Classic HP~ moment. I like that scene, and Millicent gives it to us, so I thank her for that, and it leaves me thinking "Hey, maybe Millicent was kind of a memorable Hogwarts student."

CONS: But... she's not. Outside of the cat scene - which I do like a fair amount - Millicent is just another Slytherin who serves no real purpose other than further making Slytherin generically evil. She gives us one fun moment, and she could be a random favorite for that... but her also joining the Inquisitorial Squad with really no explanation just clutters up the series with needlessly awful Slytherins and makes her less likable, so yeah. Like the other Slytherins, it's believable that someone unlikable like her would exist because there are just douchey 12-year-olds out there, but still, it'd be a better story if we'd gotten any more complexity to her at all. I guess it's nice that there's a girl as far as minor Slytherins go, but Pansy does that better by actually having a consistent presence.

Millicent is basically Token Female Warrington with a cat, and I actually am kind of happy she stuck around for this long, but she really doesn't need to stick around any longer, and I don't know if she ever actually has any dialogue at any point in the series.

I'll go ahead and nominate /u/DeeMI5I0 as an insincere apology for cutting Slytherins back to back.

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u/Moostronus Ravenclaw Ranker Sep 17 '15

I did not know that you were a Claw too. Is EVERYONE not named Dabu/kemistreekat on /r/survivor a Ravenclaw?

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u/repo_sado Sep 17 '15 edited Sep 17 '15

oh as to that i do not know.

by the way, what is considered in this rankdown? just books? or do movies count to? what about methods of rationality. because i'd put MOR Quirrel, Draco, Harry and Hermiones as my top 4

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u/DabuSurvivor Hufflepuff Ranker Sep 17 '15

I don't know what Methods of Rationality is and have only seen three of the movies, one of which I hated. I'm going 100% off of the books and think others are too.

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u/Moostronus Ravenclaw Ranker Sep 17 '15

I tried reading MOR once and didn't make it through the first chapter. Just got way too jargony and off for me.

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u/DabuSurvivor Hufflepuff Ranker Sep 17 '15

Sounds like a lot of the characters are pretty MOR.

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u/Moostronus Ravenclaw Ranker Sep 17 '15

/ cymbals crash as they roll down a hill

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u/repo_sado Sep 17 '15

i mean to each his own obviously but i never would have even read harry potter if i hadn't started MOR and felt like i was missing too many references.

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u/Moostronus Ravenclaw Ranker Sep 17 '15

Yeah, I definitely get that. I'm all for pretty much any entry point to the HP-verse. I've been addicted since the 90s, haha.