Pansy /Lover boy Draco

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No: HPFGUIDX 14971

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., rainy_lilac at y... wrote:
> > 
> > Rita describes her as pretty; the narration describes her as 
> > resembling a pug! We know Harry's POV is biased, but I still 
think   the latter is more accurate.  Rita calls her pretty to give 
her more   credibility in her Hermione-bashing.
> > 
> 
> I did not interpret "pug" as necessarily unattractive. "Pug" 
brought up for me an image of someone with a small face with 
> maybe an interestingly shaped jaw. I know at least three women who 
> have that "pug" look and all of them are attractive in an 
interesting,   striking kind of way. 
> 
> In her demeanor, Pansy strikes me as someone who is used to be the 
> center of her circle. Rowling describes her as always being with a 
> crowd of Slytherins. She is a very confident but very mean girl who 
is  attractive, popular, and well-to-do-- and mercilessly nasty to 
those  who are not. I had the impression that Draco pretty much got 
to have  his pick of the Slytherin girls, and that Pansy was it.
> 
> --Suzanne

<g> Okay, where are we getting the impression that Draco had his pick 
of Slytherin women? I love Draco as much as the next girl, but...I 
fear LoverMan!Draco is a fanon creation. We have no evidence from 
canon that he is even attractive. (And how it kills me to say this.) 
The descriptions we get: Draco is pale, slender, has pointed 
features, cold grey eyes, and silver-blond hair. One can make of that 
what they will (and so we do.) He *does* seem to be popular, and not 
just with Crabbe and Goyle; he is often described as at the center of 
a group of laughing Slytherins.

I have to agree with Amy that the descriptions of Pansy from canon 
don't imply to me a very pretty girl: "hard-faced" and "looking like 
a pug." My neighbor has a pug dog and boy would I be displeased if 
anyone said I looked remotely like it. On the other hand, it's all 
Harry's POV and he *hates* the Slytherins, I'd be willing to give her 
the benefit of the doubt and assume she might be attractive in a hard-
faced sort of way. 

This leads into the whole argument about how there certainly must be 
*some* decent Slytherins despite the fact that Harry describes them 
all as either stupid, ugly, evil, or all three, otherwise it seems 
like they'd just abolish the whole House.

Cassie