Draco: who in their right mind would make Draco a prefect. Seriously. Are they picked by their heads of houses? Because I could see Snape doing it (if nothing else to get in Malfoy's good books) -- but Dumbledore?

Ginny: Ginny becomes a steadily more interesting character. She takes charge of Harry when he is lost without his friends, she is comfortable around everyone (including Luna, who unsettles everyone else).

Luna: Luna is lovely. Weird, very strange, but lovely. I like how she seems to have taken a step back from life and appears to look at it from the outside, observing. I also like the Quibbler. Nutty as it is. I also like how her house marks her as intelligent, while her actions make her seem ... somewhat less so? Her crazy ravings are somewhat made legitimate by her house. Or perhaps that is just me.

Neville: I like his geekiness -- that is the only way of describing it I think. He has found something that interests him and he is talking about it as if it should also interest other people. I love Neville.

I also really like how simply he says that they believe Harry, putting Seamus in his place. And how he dreams about a giant pair of scissors wearing his grandmother's hat. Can you say Freud?

Harry: Could another reason for not making Harry a prefect be that some students might not do as he said, that it might bring to the fore the scepticism towards him fostered by the Daily Prophet? The more I think about it, the more reasons I find. The one Dumbledore gives later on is only one among many.

Umbridge: EVIL BITCH. *shudder*
I can't talk about her in a balanced way.

McGonnagall: I love her to bits. I like how much sense she makes, I love how she is good, I absolutely adore the "have a biscuit" comment. I like how she sees through Umbridge, just as I liked it when she saw through Lockhart and Trelawny, and I like how she sees the threat that is Umbridge and attempts to warn Harry. I also like how she recognises Hermione's words in Harry's mouth.