Fate of HANDSOME guys in the Harry Potter series

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No: HPFGUIDX 84354

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nibleswik" <nibleswik at y...> 
wrote:
> > > "Geoff Bannister" wrote: 
> > > Now, who else is in the series at the moment who is handsome? 
Do 
> > JK's  references to folk such as Justin Fitch-Finchley or Ernie 
> > MacMillan  for example put them in that category? Place your 
bets, 
> > ladies and gentlemen.
> > 
> > Erin:
> >    Bill!  Bill springs immediately to my mind.  And the Malfoys, 
> > father and son.  As for what she might have against good-looking 
> > guys, her first husband I believe was fairly hot.  Her current 
one 
> > has been described as looking somewhat like Harry, lol.
> > 
> > Erin
> 
> I don't remember either Justin or Ernie being handsome, but I could 
> be wrong. Bill was the first one I thought of, as well. As to the 
> Malfoys, I don't recall any basis for their good looks in canon. 
> Sure you aren't being swayed by Jason Isaacs and Tom Felton's evil 
> influence? The other character I thought of was Firenze:
> 
>   "'He's not a horse, he's a centaur!' said Lavender, sounding 
> shocked.
>   'A gorgeous centaur . . . " sighed Parvati."
> -OotP, p. 599
> 
> This does seem a legitimate concern, though. I'd never thought 
about 
> that connection between Lockhart, Cedric, and Sirius (and Tom 
> Riddle, for that matter).
> 
> Cheekyweebisom

 
  I won't be snipping, since I think you've all made great points in 
this thread I want to talk to. This does not seem a real problem, 
however, in my mind, especially considering that all the people 
you've mentioned, Cheeky, are over the age of 16, and by that time, 
girls have started fawning over boys. Girls in school go for older 
boys, not the boys of their own year or own age. Draco seems to be 
the exception, with Pansy. (And that does occur within the book.) 
Perhaps, however, Pansy is simply taking leftovers, as there don't 
seem to be anyone who is described as 'less than hideous' in 
Slytherin, other than Draco. He's passable. 

  Ernie has been described as having mildly good looks, but a pompous 
personality. Remember when, after Luna declares that she supports 
Harry, when nobody's believing him in the mid-beginning of OotP, 
Ernie says, very loudly, and in a tone Harry doesn't like, "I want 
you to know, Potter, it's not only weirdos who support you." I think 
I got that quote almost exactly correct. Probably because I can hear 
him saying it in my head! I knew a lot of folks like that in my 
growing-up, high school years. I think most of us did. They were the 
ones who turned out politicans. ;)

  As for Justin and as for Sean and Dean and Seamus- why, they're too 
young to be getting many looks from females. Girls like to look up 
when they look for a date or a crush- usually about 3, 4 years up. I 
think they do it to find corresponding emotional maturity, and for 
that, they must expand the age range. So in their 5th year, girls 
from 1st and 2nd would be making eyes at them. And first/second-years 
are too timid to actually talk about or do anything about their 
crushes. But I suspect once we're in books 6 and 7, we'll see some 
romance actually happening, even between the lesser known characters. 
Heck, we already saw that Ginny was proficient in dating. And we have 
no idea how handsome Michael Corner is. 

 -M.M. 



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