Spock/Snape/sexy characters(was Draco. Who is sexy?)

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 8626

Warning - this ended up really long.  Read at your own risk.

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Oh no!  I don't see the Spock-Snape connection at all.  Okay, they 
both 
> would need therapy before being candidates for a relationship, but 
there the 
> similarity ends.  Spock's a tad rigid, but he's kind, unshakeably 
ethical, 
> plays a mean...whatever that Vulcan instrument he plays is called, 
and likes 
> cats!  Though I always liked McCoy best, myself... <;-)
> 
> Snape, on the other hand, would probably look terrific in the 
proverbial 
> leather pants, but meanness is a #1 turnoff in my book.  No one who 
insulted 
> a student the way he does Hermione (in the tooth incident) would get 
so much 
> as a peck on the cheek from me.
> 

I admit to knowing nothing about Spock - but I have to agree that 
there's nothing sexy about Snape's meanness.  There are times I finds 
rotten characters sexy, but not here.  Maybe if I understood him 
better I could find some charm in him, but at this point he's just 
ucky.  And then there's the greasy hair.  I mean there is something to 
be said for good grooming.  Or at least grooming.  The only time he 
comes close to sexy for me is when he makes Lockhart look a fool in 
CoS, but then he goes on to pick on Neville again, and I remember how 
sleazy he is.  

But I can see appeal in a lot of characters.  

Siruis, of course, can give me the shivers.  Mostly when he's all 
angry and dangerous - he may not be the murderer they thought he was, 
but he's got some temper on him, and while in real life that's not so 
good, in fiction, when paired with the kind of loving concern he shows 
Harry and the knowlege that he has set himself against the 'forces of 
darkness' or whatever, it's quite sexy.  And he's so strong.  The 
endurance of 12 years of sheer torture, and finding the strength to 
escape in order to protect Harry - that's just hot!

I think Lupin is equally as sexy if not more so, but in a totally 
different way.  The werewolf thing gives him an edge, but he's got 
something else.  I imagine him as very attentive.  The kind of guy who 
always looks you in the eye, and lets you know they have his undivided 
attention.  I also imagine he very seldom raises his voice.  There's 
something about having to really listen - makes a conversation very 
intimate, as well as making a person's statements seem all that much 
more important.  I also like the care-worn person he's become.  With 
all the persecution he's suffered, he could well have taken a poor-me 
stance, and become a huge bore.  Instead he remembers, and regrets, 
the follies of his youth and his betrayal of Dumbledore's trust.  He 
is thankful for the friends he's had and the people who have given him 
a chance, and he feels a responsibility toward other people that 
guides his actions.  He still has a bit of that young, witty, 
daredevil Moony in him, but he's truly matured into a caring, 
concerned man.  That, to me, is one of the sexiest things ever.  And 
the underdog thing on both his and Sirius' parts doesn't hurt.  I 
always love an underdog.

I think Arthur Weasley's got a bit of sex appeal too, in that cute, 
sweet, goofy way of his.  He's quite a bit too old for me, but there's 
something about a man with brains who's not afraid to be completely 
clueless.  He never tries to pretend to know more than he does, and 
that's both comical and attractive.  I think the term I'm looking for 
is earnestness.  I love when he gets all excited asking questions 
about muggle life.

Bill and Charlie both strike me as cutie-pies, and their adventurous 
young lifestyles make them seem cool and interesting, while their 
obvious family ties give them a groundedness that a lot of young, 
adventurous professionals don't have.  Physical descriptions of both 
also make me think I'd be inclined to get a little swoony.  I picture 
Bill as a young, red-haired Indiana Jones down there in Egypt, and 
Charlie, working with the dragons is this strong, outdoorsy L.L. Bean 
type in fireman pants and boots (teehee)!

Now while I am too old to see the younger characters as sexy really, 
my inner child is of course head-over-heals for Ron (especially in 
PoA), and my inner teenager wishes she had the guts to break out of my 
brain and hang out with Fred and George. 
Harry, on the other hand, I feel too maternal about.  Even my inner 
kids all want to tuck him in someplace safe and read him a story where 
nobody is evil and there's a happy ending.

Sorry this got so long, I have been thinking about the whole sexiness 
factor ever since it was brought up, and once I got started, I 
couldn't stop.

Kimberly, who could use a fan about now :)