Hair and sunshine, paparazzi (sp?), MoM

[Tabouli]

No: HPFGUIDX 23870

Kavitha:
> Out of curiousity, why is the Dark always considered evil?  Light can 
> kill, if you're in the sun too long, but noone ever died from sitting 
> in a shadow.  

(that was very poetic of you Kavitha!)

> That always annoys me...but that's just one of my 
> quirks. *Shrug*  I love the fact that Draco, the epitome of foulness 
> is blond and pale while Harry, the do-good hero, has black hair and, 
> i think, more tanned skin.  Cliched blond heros bother me at times.

I personally suspect JKR of a little reverse hairism... look at *all* the blond people in the series!  (btw, does anyone know the correct use of blond/blonde in English?  Strangely enough, we seem to adopt the French usage minus the Ss with blonde women and blond men.  I've always wondered about this).  Not only are all three Malfoys blond, we also have Dudley and Aunt Petunia, the irritating Fleur and ridiculous Gilderoy Lockhart in the fair-haired ranks.  I suppose Seamus and Susan Bones are also fair, but they're hardly major characters.

How about black hair?  Harry & James, Hagrid, Tom Riddle, Snape.  Interesting.  Red hair?  Lily, all the Weasleys and Dumbledore.  Hmm.  And Fawkes is a blond/redhead combo!  Hmmm.  Gryffindor's house colours are red and gold, after all...

David:
> The world needs her.  Think how much worse Fudge would be without 
her.  At least he tries to think how his actions will play in the 
press which is a bit of a restraint.>
 
...and jenny from ravenclaw:

> David, David, David.  I usually love your posts but this one just screamed at me to respond.  I tried to resist...
How can the world need Rita Skeeter?  I need her like I need a hole in the head.

I loved Rita as a character precisely *because* she is a marvellous parody of all those nasty bloodsucking journalists out there (see also Richard Finch in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason).  The Quick Quotes Quill was glorious.  Then again, I'm always one to separate what I like in a character, and what I like in a real person.  In real life, alas, I'm inclined to agree with jenny.  Though being me, my cultural bloodhound pricked up its ears here.  It's reliably rumoured that England has the nastiest tabloid journalists in the world: perhaps the ol' puncturing inflated reputations and "keep the bastards honest" cynicism is one of the reasons why... (any thoughts, David?)

Katie:
> It was just a lapse of judgement on the part of two children...and while it did have major repercussions with the ministry 
(having to memory charm all those who saw the car, etc...)

I wonder how quick the MoM is off the mark with its memory charms?  Surely sightings like these would make (at the tabloid) papers pretty fast.  Do they always manage to wipe 'em immediately, or might they end up having to change newspaper articles and memory charm journalists as well?

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