Hybrid vigour and Cindersnape

[Tabouli]

No: HPFGUIDX 20876

In all honesty, I can't see Cho and Harry getting together (more likely that Harry sadly concludes it's not to be in the next book or two), but...

Alex (in her deep wisdom) noted that:

>Why wouldn't anything good come out of it?  Many successful marriages are mixed and produce lovely
children.

Yeah!! (enthuses the half-Chinese, half-"white" Tabouli, who looks Southern European).  Hybrid vigour, that's the stuff.  All but one of the weddings of my friends I've been to have been mixed race (one Caucasian, one Asian, including Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese).  I've read alarming accounts of mixed race couples being spat on and denounced on the street by both races in parts of the US: eek!  Is this common, or just sensationalisation of things rare and localised?

No doubt Richard (who presumably used Hedwig in his username because she's a Snowy Owl, not one of these suspect Tawny specimens who might be Touched With The Tar Brush) find the whole concept shockin'.  Miscegenation, tsk tsk.  Shouldn't be allowed.  And as for Angelina going to the ball with Fred...!  Has she no shame??  Being *seen* with one of those low-life *white* people...  :D

> Actually, this is probably reverse racism, but mixed-race people seem usually more beautiful...

(Tabouli beams and looks hopefully at the mirror for signs of extreme beauty, slumps, then recalls her screeds on the perils of beauty and sighs in relief).

> By refering to this as wrong, it just means that the chinqs are an 
> inferrior race thats all. It's nothing bad, just that they should 
> accept their place in life as being below everyone else.

> And while we're on the subject of inferiority, faggots should all be 
> below too. God knows that they were created to be killed.

> If anyone feels that my views are too extreme, then so be it.

!!  Dear, dear, dear.  I haven't quite decided whether you're serious or not, but I find your comments not too extreme, but too laughable.  I have to wonder how old you are, where you live and what your background is to sprout such stuff, whether as a joke in poor taste, a sneer at "political correctness", or as an attempt to be inflammatory.  As for the reference to God, are you a Christian as well?  My, my, how do you reconcile dem white supremacist views with Jesus' (whom I hate to tell you sprang from the Middle East and therefore wasn't a blond whitewashed Aryan) teaching on forgiveness, hanging out with a prostitute and advocating friendship between Jews and Samaritans??  I seriously doubt whether He'd be up for a wholesale slaughter of homosexuals, do you?  Then again, if you seriously believe the above, who knows...

(this is getting waay OT... sorry everyone, I'll get onto that OT list for this sort of stuff in future)

Hey, while we're on the subject of homosexuality, I agree with those who say that JKR isn't going to explore the issue in HP.  I suspect that the diehard gay-inclusivity fans will have to stick with symbolism until she goes on after HP to write books intended for an older audience, when I imagine she'll slip in a gay character or two without fanfare (a la girls on the Quidditch team).  This seems to be her style.  Though I do like the Harry coming out of the closet metaphor... very cute.  The squibs as gay characters idea is clever too.

>Lilith, who finds slash between Snape/Dumbledore slightly amusing. 

Now that would explain why Snape loathes Harry more and more: he's jealous of all the attention Harry gets from Dumbledore!  Maybe Severus needs a makeover to get Dumbledore to notice him...

> I can't help wondering if Snape is ever going to get similar
treatment... after all, Sirius looked pretty awful in PoA when he had bad
hair and was pale and haggard, but from his pre-Azkaban photos and GoF we
know he's actually quite an attractive guy.  Hmmm...

Maybe Snape's real issue is that he has a bad body image.  Let's look at him closely. Thin?  Hooked nose?  Sallow skin?  Greasy black hair?  None of these are irredeemable flaws.  Hey, given the right shampoo, a touch of Sleekezy, a better diet (get Dobby onto the task) and a healthy outdoor lifestyle away from the cauldron to improve the complexion (perhaps Hagrid could take Snape for constitutional hikes in the Forbidden Forest?), he could be lean and handsome, with silky raven locks framing dashingly hawklike features.  Then, blossoming in the newfound admiration of his students and colleagues, he would become a warm, fatherly teacher to Harry, forgive Sirius, and win the heart of Dumbledore, who'd abandon his ambiguous relationship with Fawkes and wed Snape in a glamorous occasion in the Great Hall, at which the happy guests would order Phoenix casserole...


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