A Taste of Moody, With A Big Scoop of Krum and Karkaroff

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 39518

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
Cindy wrote:
> So tell me.  Why is it that no one crushes on Quiddich Star Victor 
> Krum?  Why is it that the women don't hurl themselves forward to 
> fall at Victor's duck feet, pledging to help him learn to stand up 
> straight?

Because Krum is so 19th century, perhaps, but I actually think that 
the truth is far less appealing.

> 
> Then we have Karkaroff.  Karkaroff spent time in Azkaban, just like 
> Sirius, and turned traitor to his friends, just like Snape.  
> Karkaroff takes a beating, too.  The Dark Mark burns on his arm, 
> causes him to panic and show far more concern than Snape.  
Karkaroff 
> also gets intimidated by Fake Moody, just like Snape.  Then, 
> Karkaroff is slammed into a tree by a giant, his "feet dangling in 
> midair," Hagrid's fist at his throat, finally sliding down the tree 
> trunk to "huddle at its roots."  At the end of GoF, Karkaroff is on 
> the run, fleeing for his very life.  Poor Igor!
> 
> So why don't the women folk around here fall all over each other 
for 
> the chance to pluck the twigs and leaves from Karkaroff's silver 
> hair?  

While I don't see anyone crushing on Karkaroff under any 
circumstances, may I point out that both of them are Eastern 
Europeans. People read HP to crush on those stiff upper-lip English, 
imho, and ignore the poor Slavs. I think that we enter into a mode of 
xenophobia, whatever our own background (mine isn't English) 
represented by Ron and Hagrid, but running throughout the whole 
thing. "The English are so nice" by D.H. Laurence was the feeling the 
QWC gave me at any rate, with Fudge and Bagman's dismissiveness of 
the Bulgarian delegation etc.

The English are so nice
so awfully nice
they are the nicest people in the world.

And what's more, they're very nice about being nice
about your being nice as well!
If you're not nice they soon make you feel it.

Americans and French and Germans and so on
they're all very well
but they're not really nice, you know.
They're not nice in our sense of the word, are they now?

That's why one doesn't have to take them seriously.
We must be nice to them, of course,
of course, naturally.
But it doesn't really matter what you say to them,
they don't really understand
you can just say anything to them:
be nice, you know, just nice
but you must never take them seriously, they wouldn't understand,
just be nice, you know! Oh, fairly nice,
not too nice of course, they take advantage
but nice enough, just nice enough
to let them feel they're not quite as nice as they might be. 

Am I imagining things, or do I see this in the Potterverse?

> So.  Any takers for a slice of Karkaroff or Krum?

Krum, I'll take. He's an age-appropriate crush for me, actually. I'll 
pass up on Karkaroff.

> Cindy (who may have to start a support group for women who are 
> willing to crush on some of the less obvious crush objects in the 
> books, as there is far less competition for their affection)

Go Cindy!

And remember that Crouch Sr. is definitely dead sexy. 
(C.R.A.B.C.U.S.T.A.R.D)

Eileen