Temperance/overweight & a question

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 3564

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Denise Rogers wrote:
> 
> > I don't agree that being overweight is associated with
> > villains as such - I'd say most bad guys are portrayed as thin 
and dark.
> > Doubtless, someone will now post a list of fat villains.
> 
> Not villains, necessarily, but generally buffoons at the best. Or 
both, like the bad guy in Jurassic Park. A villain per se must be 
taken seriously, and part of the whole overweight thing is they're 
not quite real people who can be truly respected or truly feared.
> 
> --Amanda, whose daughter is a superb example of that last bit

Vernon Dursley
Dudley Dursley
Friar Tuck
Sgt. Garcia
Baron Harkonnen
Caspar Gutman
Jabba the Hut