Pansy /Lover boy Draco

[eccleston at clara.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 15032

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Celeste Chang" <celeste_827 at y...> wrote:
> > Here's a thought: what if Syltherin parents encourage their 
children 
> > to date other Slytherins or pure-bloods, in order to keep their 
> family 
> > lineages pure? That might explain why Draco would escort Pansy to 
> the 
> > Yule Ball: he had a very limited choice.
> > 
> > :-)Milz
> 
> That's how I thought of it. Kind of. I envision Draco as tolerating 
> Pansy's presence only because his father demands that he stay 
within 
> the range of pureblood Slytherin in dating choices. I don't see him 
> actually liking Pansy, merely allowing her to clutch at him. *gag* 
She 
> seems quite happy with being his 'girlfriend', however, seeing as 
he's 
> wealthy, upper-class, and a... leader of sorts among the Slytherins 
> close to him in age.
> 
> Draco didn't strike me as being unattractive, even before I read 
the 
> descriptions of Hot!Draco in fanfics. I disliked Draco before 
reading 
> fanfics, and even then I didn't think he was ugly, just 
unremarkable. 
> And notice that, even when Harry gets extremely angry at Draco in 
the 
> books, he doesn't make him out to be unattractive. JKR merely talks 
> about his smirk, his paleness, the sharp lines of his face and the 
> coldness of his eyes.
> 
> - Celeste Chang

As a name "Pansy", in England, has a number of connotations:- it's 
slang for a very effeminate or camp man and was also the name of an 
old cartoon girl who was the daughter of a weight lifter in English 
comics 30 years ago - " Pansy Potter - The Strong Mans Daughter" - 
She was always rather well built if I remember rightly.

So the name "Pansy" has immediate comic and amiguous sexual overtones 
to me, which seems about right for Slytherine!