Rowling made the a villain a hero in the end and duped the real villain. Twist the hero into an anti hero and you have the Sopranos.
Inanimate heroes brings a tear to some. Perhaps you chose to have a victim bait the hero and become the new hero.

Some writers let their characters run the show in plot development but that is for you to decide. Add your own muscles, organs and nerve to the skeleton of a classic story and it becomes easy for readers to stay interested in your Frankenstein creation.

I have found that such dimensional charcters like Trump are har to believe.