Which fictional characters would you like to invite to a Dinner Party?

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I had to rule out some of my favourite characters as bad dinner party material - Sherlock Holmes would be bored from the start and insult everybody, Lucy Snow would efface herself completely and then write insulting things about her fellow guests and hostess in her memoirs and Mr Rochester would insist on Charades and be generally impossible.
In the end I decided on:
Mr Pickwick, Pooh Bear and Psmith (from the PG Wodehouse Psmith books).
Pooh Bear and Pickwick would get on like a house on fire and Psmith would ensure that the conversation never flagged. After we'd eaten our fill ( this would take some time), Mr Pickwick would mix up a huge barrel of punch and we would all retire to large comfy armchairs in front of a roaring fire.

[Hilary]

I'll have to give this some thought Lee. I can think of lots of historical characters I'd love to have a chin wag with but nobody fictional immediately springs to mind.

[Laurel]

I would invite D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis - we would eat loads, drink too much and then go out to the streets looking for some of the cardinals men to get into a fight with. Once we'd beaten them we would all make friends, go back and drink some more yay!

[Ellie]

I'm having the same problem as Hilary. Historical and contemporary people I can think of, but not historical characters.

Definitely wouldn't invite Ryder from The Unconsoled, though!!

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Goodness knows what would happen!