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

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 57135

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:
 
> Don't you ladies have any survival instincts? Harry's a nice kid 
and all, but he's also marked for death by the most evil wizard 
anyone can remember.
> 
> Here's how a guy, IF he were being honest with himself and hadn't 
> just finished watching the Terminator or Rocky, would react to a 
> Harriet Potter, with the same problems.
> 
> Harriet: Yes, I've got Voldemort going after me. He's also targeted 
> my best friend, Veronica and my other best friend, Herman. 
> 
> Honest guy: So, he'd also likely target anyone you started dating?
> 
> Harriet: Uh-huh
> 
> Honest guy: Well, good luck with that. And, uh, do you know if 
> Lavender is seeing anyone?>

Well, this may be the way men act, but for women... oy, what you 
don't know about us is a lot!  To know that Harry not only needs good 
lovin' to make up for his lonely childhood is enough to make many of 
us swoon, but add to that his fight with the Big Bad?  Wow! He's 
exciting and had a dangerous edge to him too!  Then add to *that* the 
fact that he actually escaped from said Big Bad?  Hold me back!

I can't lie - knowing that my boyfriend has been in fights and 
knowing he has won all of them is a turn-on even though I don't want 
him fighting.  Harry wins his fights, which makes him the ultimate 
man.  

Isn't this part of what makes Sirius appealing to so many women as 
well?  Knowing he'll duke it out with Snape, Pettigrew, even Lupin 
before they realized they were still friends... how manly!

--jenny from ravenclaw, who'd better send this before her students 
walk into the classroom! ****************************************