Hogwarts: "We don't drown in sex appeal"
Dave Hardenbrook
DaveH47 at mindspring.com
Fri Jan 5 23:58:30 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 8616
There seems to be a deficit of sexy females in Harry Potter.
There's many more in the Oz books -- Glinda, Ozma, Polychrome,
Jellia Jamb, etc. etc. -- for a guy like me to drool over. (Ironic
that many Oz scholars insist that Oz was always intended by
its creators to be a land of immaculate chastity!) But in
the JKR universe there's just Madam Rosmerta, and some "offstage"
ladies like Rowena Ravenclaw, Celestina Warbeck, and others
whose sex appeal is totally in the assumptions of the reader.
Is the lack of sexy teachers at Hogwarts (male or female) part
of JKR's stereotyping of school employees?
-- Dave
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