[HPforGrownups] What *is* the attraction to those Slytherins?

[SnapesSlytherin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 68199

In a message dated 7/7/03 10:28:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
meboriqua at aol.com writes:
> Okay.  I have been reading many posts written by people who just drool 
> over Draco, Lucius and Snape.  People think they're sexy!  People want 
> to marry Lucius! They might even want to run their fingers through 
> Snape's hair!  What is the deal with this?
> 
> I would really like to know why people find these three so attractive.  
> Is it their dark and dangerous ways?  The mystery?  Is it that Aryan 
> thing that is clearly going on with the Malfoys?  What *is* it?  
> 
> Give me some canon to back up why you find Draco so dreamy, Lucius so 
> lucious or Snape so sexy - things they've said, their behavior, body 
> language - anything, because I just don't get it.  Telling me movie 
> Draco is a cutie doesn't count; I want it straight from the books.

My attraction to Snape is "Hey!  I see myself there!".  That's the first 
reason I liked Snape.  Black wearing, miserable, sulking around with snide 
comments.  When I first started to read HP I was positively Snape-ish.  Still am 
actually ... just less miserable :-).  Now, it's that Snape is more than what he 
seems.  It always feels like there's something more there to discover.  He's 
hardened himself from years of bullying (and, I'm sure, being a bully on 
occasion).  I still see myself in Snape.  When I read the scene with Snape being 
turned upside down, all I could think of was sixth grade when these girls said "Oh 
my God.  What the hell are you wearing?".  I still hate them.  There was no 
reason for anything like that.  I can almost feel what it was like for Snape to 
have to endure that.  And sure, he got comebacks in, but he could never 
overpower the Gryffs.  He spent alot of time wishing he could do something big.  
The Prank could've been his big change to get them.  I feel it.  Being a 
teenager sucks big time.
With Lucius though...it's the power.  He's this man with lots and lots of 
power.  He's written to be this evil guy but he has a certain God knows what to 
him.  The fight between Arthur and Lucius cemented my love of him.  All of his 
snide comments and evil things are just kinda cool.  Because, in real life, it 
couldn't happen.  Because you know the good guys are gonna win in the end and 
this guy is trying to get what he can while he can.  The fact that he gets 
away with being a Dark Wizard right under the Minstry's nose is really 
intriguing.  Well, when you have money you can have anything, right?
Draco, though...I don't really see him as attractive yet.  He's a little 
immature and underdeveloped to be attractive.  He's kind of an idiot.  He attacks 
Harry on the train?  Like there's no one who's gonna help him?  Did he forget 
about the DA already?  He might be attractive in the future books.
I think the male characters aren't written attractive because Harry's (to the 
best of my knowledge) straight.  He wouldn't even think about the male 
characters that way.  Again, my opinion about the Straight!Harry...although I think 
it's pretty much canon now.  Unless the thing with Cho was a farce!

Like Nemi said: 
It's their /presance./

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~
--Who probably wouldn't like these characters in Real Life.


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