Fate of HANDSOME guys in the Harry Potter series

[erinellii]

No: HPFGUIDX 84368

> Siriusly Snapey Susan wrote:
 Because I'm thinking perhaps 
> it's more of the Dreaded Movie Contamination which puts Draco, at 
> least, into this category of handsome guys.  
> 
> Now Mandy:
> Absolutely agree.  Definitely movie contamination.  The Malfoy's 
were  described as pale faced and thin, not to mention cruel.  


Erin
Ok, you've made me do this, I'm gonna have to quote JKR, and then 
myself. (I can't believe I'm here defending the Malfoys when this 
type of guy is SO not my type!)

So here we go, CoS, Ch. four:

"The man who followed could only be Draco's father.  He had the same 
pale, pointed face and identical cold, gray eyes."

Erin from message 84326:
I mean, really, a blond with a pale, pointed face is actually the
epitome of movie-star good looks, isn't he? 

I submit, for your viewing pleasure, this picture of Orlando Bloom, a 
recognized hottie:

http://www.orlandobloom.co.nz/images/legolas18.jpg


Take a good long look.  Don't try to tell me his face isn't pale and 
pointy.  It *is*.  So pale and pointy *can* be handsome. And as for 
the cruel expression and the cold gray eyes?  Well, I'll let Mandy 
say it first:

Mandy:
 Now in the end of OotP Draco is finally showing some gumption and 
rising to take hold of some power and use it, and nothing is more 
attractive to a woman than power.  

Erin:
Unless it is a man who misuses that power and then has to show 
remorse...like Snape....<dreamy sigh>.... Ok, but to snap back to the 
business at hand, here's me again from message 84326:

"If she'd wanted to rule this(handsome)interpretation out, she'd have 
added something like "washed-out" or "weak" features to the mix. 
Instead they get "cold". Cold to me denotes strength, making them 
sexy."

Alright, so we've both admitted it.  Strength and power make men 
sexy.  And I submit that the Malfoys have these.  The cold gray eyes, 
the cruelty, heck, Mandy even says:

"All I can do is speak for myself and for me it's always the bad 
guys. Hey I even find Lord Voldemort attractive
..trust me it's the 
power thing
.it is really..."

So how *can* she resist the Malfoys?  I swear I don't know.



Mandy:
> JKR, in her last interview at the Royal Albert Hall, said we are 
all getting far too fond of Draco, and I'm convinced it's because of 
the movies, as in the books he is still this weak little twerp.  
<Snip>
So, to follow the books alone Draco should only now becoming 
attractive to us, but I confess he's been an attraction 
> since just after GoF, when the first movie came out.

Erin:
There are fanfics from *way* before the movies that depict Draco as 
attractive.


Mandy
 > Now what about Snape?  In the books he is definitly ugly and very 
> unattractive.  JKR takes every opportunity to describe him as such, 
> but in the movie...Alan Rickman, although not a handsome man in the 
> conventional sense, is very attractive and damned sexy.  Does he 
> qualify?  
 
Erin:  
I can trace my Snape-crush, oh yes.  And it's not from the movies.  
It's from July of 2000, while reading GoF, when I came across a 
little chapter called the Egg and the Eye.  Alan Rickman has nothing 
to do with it.