Hurt Comfort Crouch Sr. -There's a Reason They Call Us "Bent."

[Eileen]

No: HPFGUIDX 57029

 --- "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at comcast.net> wrote: 
> 7.  Crouch Sr.  So dignified, yet reduced to a
> crazed wreck of a 
> wizard.  We know he has probably endured lots of
> abuse from Wormtail 
> and Voldemort.  Still, we don't actually *see* any
> of that abuse, 
> and I for one was quite disappointed.  Perhaps
> Eileen can explain 
> the attraction to Crouch Sr.?

Gladly! He's absolutely heart-broken in that last
scene. "My fault.. all my fault." How can one not be
touched? And he gets a redemption scene! (c.f. Elkins)
One doesn't even have to feel guilty about
hurt-comfort here, unlike with a certain Severus
Snape, or even Sirius "He deserved it because his hair
was oily!" Black.

> 8.  Snape.  I must take issue with the idea that
> Snape's allure is 
> based on Hurt-Comfort.  We hardly ever see Snape get
> physically 
> injured -- just the thing with Fluffy, IIRC.  Snape
> suffers lots of 
> indignities -- people don't listen to him, for
> instance.  But that's 
> hardly Hurt-Comfort.  I think women lust after Snape
> for another 
> reason entirely -- he's a challenge, a
> conquest-in-waiting!  Oh, if 
> you can get Snape to love you, then you are without
> question 
> supremely loveable.  Sorry, Derannimer, I'm not
> giving you Hurt-
> Comfort!Snape.  Not yet, anyway.

I'm not a bent!Snapefan, but I think those who are go
weak in the knees over the Egg and the Eye scene. He's
suffering mentally! And emotionally! 

But you've excluded Avery from the list Cindy, why?
He's tortured on screen. And he's an emotional wreck.
And he's suitably docile to respond to the directions
of the hurt-comfort fixated.

As proved on TBAY actually. ;-)

Eileen, who has so far successfully avoided the bent
relationships, though she must admit that most of her
real-life flirtations were rather bent



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