Ginny doesn't bother me as much as JKR's application of her. I see exactly what she's trying to do, and it's just failing miserably. She's slapped together with wet clay and glitter-glue as the star, as the classic redheaded goddess, and you can't go back and do that when the books begin and end with Harry Potter. Better that she'd give up and make it all about her, instead of ruining her creaking architectural monstrosity of a plot. IMO Ginny's too cardboard to hate. Disappointment, I guess, is my strongest reaction.

While Fudge filled me with great waves of loathing, and several characters strike me as idiotic, under your definition ... my Shadow's probably Peter Pettigrew.

I think I shall leave it at that.