[HPforGrownups] Re: Who would you like to date and why??

[Jen Faulkner]

No: HPFGUIDX 28506

Ah, a frivolous topic we all can enjoy. *g*

My first choice would have to be Prof. McGonagall, definitely.  She's
smart, authoritative, wears glasses, and has the first name Minerva. *g*
I mean, really, how incredibly cool is it to be named Minerva? :)  I
admire the way she enforces rules, but can also bend them (i.e.,
allowing Harry to play Quidditch and arranging for him to have a
broomstick; or her willingness to let Hermione have a Time-Turner to
take all those classes).  And besides, in my mental image she looks
nothing like Maggie Smith, except perhaps as she did back when she was
Miss Jean Brodie, in her prime.

But still, even as a "sprightly" seventy, she's probably in reality a
little too old for me.  Would never happen.  So my next choice would be
Cho, probably.  In fact, she reminds me a lot of an ex of mine, and is
probably very much my type, if she just got a little more page
time.  She's in Ravenclaw, which means she has to be very into school
and intellectual activity, so she'd be a good match for me that way, but
she also plays Quidditch, so she's athletic and er, limber. *g*  And
we've been told repeatedly how pretty she is, so that's good.

Hermione would drive me up the wall.  I wouldn't want to be friends with
her, let alone *date* her.  Ugh.  All that stressing about school is
unpleasant.  I do enough of it myself, thank you. :)  And for all that
she memorizes a lot, I'm still not impressed by her intellectual
abilities particularly.  That's not what she values (or she'd be in
Ravenclaw and wouldn't decry "Books! And cleverness!") and I think she's
much more likely to focus her energies elsewhere and view knowledge as a
tool rather than a goal.  I respect that, certainly, but it's not an
attitude I want in a partner.

Molly, too married and maternal.

Narcissa, too shallow and mean, though she's probably very attractive,
and the sort of woman I end up fascinated by.

The Quidditch girls (Angelina, Katie, and Alicia), too athletic and
uninteresting.

Lavendar and Parvati, too silly.

Padma, possibly.  She's supposedly the best-looking, plus she's in
Ravenclaw.

That's about it, isn't it?  There's still Mesdames Pinch, Hooch, and
Pomfrey, but, well, they seem too unpleasant, gym-teacherish, and
nurturing, respectively.

Hmm, well, yes, Prof. McGonagall or Cho, then.

--jen, who would probably date Lupin or Charlie, were she that way
inclined. :)

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