Bellatrix is indeed not very sexy (Re: Sexual Temptaion )

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 87164

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jazmyn <jazmyn at p...> wrote:
> I find it hard to see how people see Bella as sexy.  She's 
pathetic, 
> whiny, insane and downright evil.  I could see her in bed with 
> Voldemort, but I think even he would be turned off by psycho-witch 
> Bella.  We don't even see her husband close by her side in the 
fighting, 
> so maybe even he can't stand her.  I just cannot see anything in 
the 
> books to indicate an iota of sexiness there at all.
> 
> Where are people getting this anyways?  Filch has more sex appeal 
then 
> Bella does and he has all the sex appeal of a grindylow and a 
worse 
> attitude.
> 
> Jazmyn

You are right, she's not Cho Chang. I think that members started 
considering her as a possible "femme fatale"  that could try to 
seduce Harry because, as someone wrote, "Literature is full of 
formerly deadly enemies fatally attrracted to each other. Especially 
if she can convince our poor gullible Harry that Remus
 did it..." And we can't deny that every time Harry sees her 
photograph, he stares at it. He's obviously fascinated, but it's 
probably because he knows that that woman is very dangerous. She 
killed people and tortured Nevile's parents into madness. She 
appears in the series when Harry is obsessed by the Dark Side, and 
thinks he could become mad himself. The fascination he may feel 
towards Bellatrix is IMO more morbid than erotic. She's a powerful 
symbol of death. However, as death has since the begining of 
literature an erotic potential, we can't say either that there's no 
possibility concerning another kind of unhealthy attraction.
The way JKR writes Bella's character is ambiguous, so it's anyone's 
bet.

Amicalement,

Iris