Characters

Yesterday I was thinking about acting. I like to act, I've been in a few productions. Nothing too big, but big enough to show me that acting is a passion along with writing. I was thinking about characters. How it is easy to love or hate characters, because they are written or played for a certain emotion to be evoked.
Take Draco Malfoy, a character that evokes a lot of hatred, because he is written in a way that makes the reader or watcher look down upon him, scoff at his antagonistic ways. He is shown through the eyes of the protagonist, making us naturally dislike him. Gandalf the grey, on the other hand, is written in a way that makes you admire him. Revel in his wise stability in the mayhem of the plot line, enjoy his capability of doing the right thing. This is a character that you like. I haven't heard any lord of the rings fan say that Gandalf is the character that they detest.
I realized that a good actor is one that can evoke emotion through a character that isn't written for a certain like or dislike. Take Lea Michele for example, who plays Rachel Berry on Glee. Rachel is a character that you constantly go back and forth with.I love her I hate her I love her I hate her. Lea plays this poignant character with a realistic twang to Rachel's crazy antics, creating a controversial character, that makes you laugh, cry, annoyed, in disbelief and everything in between.