[HPforGrownups] Fat Slytherins? - Ugly Slytherins? - glasses - Pretty stereotypes

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 20519

At 09:48 PM 6/9/01 +0000, Amy Z wrote:
>Who are the fat Slytherins?

IIRC Millicent Balustrode is described as overweight.

My perception of all the Slytherins are skewed by my experience...
I imagine Malfoy to resemble my nemesis in high school (who was small
scrawny and needed thuggish "Crabbes and Goyles" to do his dirty work).
I imagine Pansy Parkinson to resemble the sexy but stuck-up prom
princess who called me a "common geek" when I asked her to a
dance.  Snape is kind of a gestalt composite of all my worst teachers.

>Really good point.  JKR's portrayal of Cho is very positive; whatever
>stereotypes fanfic authors may harbor about pretty girls, JKR is
>skewering them, not supporting them.

I think the "Evil Cho" perception comes from our (misdirected) love
for Harry, like a mother who assumes that any girl who has the
effrontery not to be in love with her boy *must* be a slut.



                         -- Dave