Hurt-Comfort and reader crushes

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No: HPFGUIDX 39212

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ssk7882" <skelkins at a...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hmmm.  You know what's wrong with poor ickle Ronniekins?  The author
> has it in for him, that's what!  She just doesn't want Ron to see 
any
> action at all.  She's always knocking his feet out from under him 
just
> when he rightfully *should* be racking up the crush points.
> 
> Other characters in states of shock get to be "pale."  Ron, even 
> while struggling manfully and heroically with his broken leg, gets 
> hit with "green."  He defends Hermione -- and then winds up 
belching 
> up slugs.  He confronts his worst phobia -- and then vomits.
> 
> I mean, it's just terrible.  Just when the reader is all primed for 
> developing a crush on Ron, the author smacks her in the face with 
> something profoundly unerotic.  It's downright cruel of her.
> 
> Someone needs to send JKR a CRAB badge, that's what I say.
> 

Well, IMO, Rowling is trying to do it to Snape, too, and it doesn't 
work. 

 When he is embarassed, he turns "a horrible brick-red color".  When 
he is stressed, the spit flies out of his mouth. When he is 
frustrated, he becomes "twice as ugly as a gargoyle". He "shrieks" 
and "howls". I don't even mention the infamous greasy hair/yellow 
fingers/uneven teeth.

And do readers find all this deterrent? *g*

I always thought something went awry with Snape's characterization.

Ana.