Top Ten Tuesday - Top Ten Characters I'd Like to Switch Places With for 24 Hours

I decided to answer the weekly question hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week they're asking us which characters we'd switch places with for 24 hours. Here it goes (without any particular order):

1. Hermione Granger  from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling - She's one of the smartest students at Hogwarts, an incredibly talented witch, a fierce and loyal friend. Also, we both have messy brown hair. And hey, it's Hogwarts! Who wouldn't want to go there?

2. Dante from Dante's The Divine Comedy - Dante is guided by Virgil and Beatrice through hell, the purgatory and heaven while discovering some of the deepest philosophy known to a man from the Middle Ages. Even if we disregard the philosophy it would be awesome to be a living person who goes through hell and heaven, sees the Devil and God.   

3. Anne Boleyn from The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory - Anne was the toast of the court, the king's sweetheart and an incredibly smart and scheming woman. She wore pretty dresses and conversed with some of the smartest and most educated people of her time. I'd love to be in her shoes for a day, but considering my luck that would be the day she got decapitated.

4. Miranda Tate from the Bard Academy series by Cara Lockwood - Miranda is a spoiled brat who gets sent away to boarding school as a punishment. But what she and her parents don't know is that the school is haunted. Some of Miranda's teachers are Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway. The coolest thing is that Bard Academy is the place where literary characters come to life. I knew it I should have been a brat when I was in high school.

5. Margarita from Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita - She's the woman who loves unconditionally, is the protagonist of one of my favorite books and gets to become a witch, fly all over Russia while riding a broomstick and hosts Satan's ball. What's not to like?

6. Irene Adler from Arthur Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia - Need I say anything else than that she's the woman who outwits my favorite fictional detective?

7. Scarlett O'Hara from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind - Scarlett is a girl every man falls in love with and every woman despises. She knows her way around the world, is stubborn, knows what she wants and will do anything to get it.

8. Lyra Belacqua from His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman - She's brave, smart, has a cute daemon and has to save the world. I always thought of her as an excellent role model for young girls. 

9. Sayuri Nitta from Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha - I've always wondered whether I'd be any good as a geisha. Probably not, but that doesn't change the fact that I find their world incredibly fascinating. To me they're the women who made the best out of a bad situation and were as independent as they could be in a world ruled by men. They were incredibly talented and educated for the time. They could read, write, recite poems, dance. Almost a liberal arts degree. Heck, if I can't be a geisha, may I dress up in a kimono and wear the make up? Just for a day?

10. Lord Henry Wotton from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray - He's perfectly cynical, an idle lord who makes Dorian into what he became. Leads almost the same life as Dorian does and manages to escape from it without almost any consequences. 

So, there they are. My top ten. It was a lot more difficult than it seemed. I have to give an honorable mention to Wendy from Peter Pan and Beatriz from The Shadow of the Wind.