Food and body image in the series

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 68035


> I absolutely love the books and think that JKR is a 
genius....however, I have an issue with the way she writes about food 
and body image.
> 
> As someone who has to eat healthily and exercise regularly to stay 
the size I want, I find it very irritating that she portrays all 
the "good"characters as eating unhealthily and not exercising, and 
never being overweight.
> 

Harry and Ron do seem to have inferno-like metabolisms, especially 
Ron. I seem to remember in GoF, a scene where Hermione tells Ron "YOU 
JUST ATE!" when he's scoring food from the House-Elves.

In CoS, when Harry, Ron, Fred and George show up for breakfast, Molly 
chews them out, but then says, "I don't blame you, dear," to Harry 
and tips EIGHT OR NINE sausages on his plate and three fried eggs.

Even if these sausages are the link we see in the U.S. -- about the 
size of a stack of dimes, that's still a lot of sausage. And three 
fried eggs?

I think there's another passage in another book where they talk 
about "seven or eight sandwiches" a piece at the Weasley household. 
(Hmmm... get the feeling Arthur and Molly will be rich once they get 
all the food-inhaling kids out of the house?)

Maybe Hermione and Ginny are doing some serious aerobics early in the 
morning before the boys see them.

Darrin