Top Ten Tuesday: Book Characters I Wish Were Real People and Why

 by Enola

Fellow readers, I’m sure you have book characters that you wish were real. Whether you’d love for a magical wizard character like Harry Potter to exist, or a girl power icon like the resilient Katniss Everdeen, everyone has their favorite book characters. For today’s Top Ten Tuesday, I will be discussing my favorite characters that I wish were real people (in no particular order). Let’s get right into it!

1. Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series

Hermione Granger is an extremely popular and famous fantasy character who is a clever, extremely talented, passionate, and studious witch. She is also a true friend. Hermione always helps get Harry Potter and Ron Weasley out of trouble, and she always does the right thing. Hermione is my favorite character in the whole Harry Potter series (and my favorite literary character) and it would be very wonderful to be friends with her.  

2.Annabeth Chase from the Percy Jackson series

Annabeth Chase is such a great example of girl power in a fantasy series. As a daughter of Athena, Annabeth is strong, wise, loyal, and strategic. She’s quite the witty character, and is close friends with both Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, and Grover Underwood, a satyr. She would be a great ally, and an even better friend, thanks to her loyalty and kindness.

3.Percy Jackson from the Percy Jackson series

Percy Jackson seems like such a fun character. He’s a son of Poseidon, and he seems like a great friend to have. He’s loyal, strong, and quite funny. I think Percy and I would get along very well. And I think he is one of the best male characters in fantasy literature for these reasons.

4.Evangeline Fox from the Once Upon A Broken Heart series

Evangeline Fox is one of the most popular female main characters in the book community right now, and as a Once Upon A Broken Heart fan, I totally understand why. Evangeline is a sweet, kindhearted, and compassionate character who’s definitely recognized by her rose gold hair. She perfectly fits the fairytale aesthetic, and she looks like a princess.

5.Ariel “LaLa” Lagrimas from the Once Upon a Broken Heart series

LaLa is Evangeline’s best friend, and quite the fashionista. She’s bold, fun, and is a great friend to Evangeline. I imagine that if she was real, she and I would be good friends and we would go out shopping every weekend. With someone with a personality like LaLa’s, it would be a lot of fun. 

6.Nicholas Flamel from The Secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel series

Nicholas Flamel is both a novel character and a myth. It was believed that Nicholas Flamel and his wife Perenelle created the Elixir of Life, and achieved immortality. Now, though Nicholas Flamel was a real person, I wish the magic he had in the myths/books were real. Imagine if the Philosopher’s Stone, or the Elixir of Life were real, or just magic in general. Imagine the stories he would tell given everything he would have experienced throughout the many years of his long life.

7.Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter series

Luna Lovegood is one of my favorite fantasy characters. She’s magical, interesting, and wise in her own quirky way. She’s a very sweet and kind character with a love for all magical creatures, and a friend of Harry Potter. Though, to most people she seems eccentric, she really isn’t. As the series goes on, you can see she is quite intelligent. I think Luna would be a great and whimsical friend to have, who would be very caring and kind. 

8.Professor Minerva McGonagall from the Harry Potter series

Professor McGonagall is my favorite Hogwarts professor along with Professor Snape. She’s intelligent, witty, and highly skilled, but she also seems like a fun person to hang out with. Professor McGonagall also seems like she would have some great advice, and she could teach me a lot of useful spells. But also, she’s the Head of Gryffindor House, and being a Gryffindor myself, of course she’s one of my favorite professors.

9.Professor Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series

Well, I did just mention before that Professor McGonagall was my favorite Hogwarts professor along with Professor Snape. All Harry Potter fans, whether they want to admit it or not, probably didn’t like Snape at first. He definitely seemed like a villain, but he turned out to be a hero. I think he was a great character, who was brave and strong. He’s certainly one of my favorites.

10.Harry Potter from the Harry Potter series

If Harry Potter was real that would be amazing. Harry would be a great friend thanks to his positive personality, which would always encourage you to persevere, his commitment to being good, his bravery, and his love for his friends. And let’s not forget that if Harry Potter was real, it would be amazing because that would mean Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, witches, wizards, magical creatures, the famous Harry Potter characters, and the entire Wizarding World would be real too. Just imagine spending your time relaxing in the Great Hall, enjoying a feast while chatting with your favorite characters, learning magic, and exploring a magical world. That would be so wonderful.