sexy! not! and hot chicks? (was: Viggo! and, why is Sirius so darn hot?)

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siriusgeologist wrote:
> > It seems that there are 3 camps amongst most 
> > of us grownup women (and men) in the HP community.
> > 
> > 1) The Sirius is sexy camp
> > 2) The Lupin is sexy camp
> > 3) The Snape is sexy camp (sorry just can not see this...but I'm 
> > sure you all have your reasons)

You forgot a camp:

4) The never thought of anyone as particularly sexy camp

Or am I the only one in that camp?  ...well, that's okay.  Solitude 
is nice; means I get the lake, bunkhouse, campfire spit and port-o-
potty all to myself.  That last being a particular boon....

;-)

But really, is there anyone out there who isn't drooling over one or 
more of the characters?  I never really considered any of the 
characters as attractive, until the question of casting wishes came 
up.  I mean, Colin Firth as Lupin in a film would to me be very 
hotski, for example.  But even that concept doesn't make me view the 
character in the book outside of his function in regards Harry (which 
isn't to be sexy, you know?).

I *have* thought of characters in books as sexy before.  Richard Jury 
in Martha Grimes's mysteries, for some reason I always envision him 
as looking like the American baseball player Cal Ripken Jr., except 
in a really smolderingly sexy way.  And Jim Chee in some of Tony 
Hillerman's mysteries has always been dead sexy to me, without 
needing a particular actor/person in my mind to embody him.  Same 
with Merlin in Zelazney's later Amber books.  But for some reason, 
despite the fact that at least Lupin fits my usual fictional 
character lust-bill, zip.

("I wonder why?" myself muses moot'ly [and alliteratively].)

By the way, are any of the female characters objects of lust to any 
of you?  There really aren't many non-jailbait femmes in the books, 
to speak of.  Hermione is shaping up to be a lovely young lady, if 
her turn at the ball in GoF is anything to go on, but 
still...jailbait. (For me, the Ick Factor leaps to the fore 
when 'sexy' is applied to anyone under the age of at least 17.  16 at 
the youngest.  Yes, I've been thoroughly programmed by the social 
norms dictated during my childhood.)  Really, Lily Potter and Fleur, 
are the only women that I can recall being described in such a way as 
to be considered lovely.  The other women are old, or horse-faced, or 
pinched, or enormous, or frazzled, etc.  

And, unlike with the men, other seductive qualities are not applied 
to them.  I mean, Lupin is thin, worn, prematurely gray ~ yet he's 
kind, quick-witted, mysterious, [insert a variety of Male Heroic 
Qualities], etc.  Black is described as...well, yucky, really, what 
with the matted hair, and snarling and all; but again with the 
mysterious and heroically tormented.  Snape...I will be completely 
honest ~ I see no sexy there, but obviously there is something 
implied about him that attracts despite being described as sallow, 
snarling, mean, and occasionally indulging in spitting rages.

McGonagall is the only woman with faintly heroic qualities ~ solid, 
wise, with a sensitivity underlying her sternness.  But overall, 
she's just basically schoolmarmy.  

Huh.  What's up with that, anyway?

Anyhoo.  Turning off the babbling brook.

Mahoney