Fate of HANDSOME guys in the Harry Potter series

[Annalisa Moretti]

No: HPFGUIDX 84397

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erinellii" <erinellii at y...> 
wrote:
> 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.

Too true (And by the way, to Mandy, there was a space of about a year 
or more between GoF's release and the first movie hitting theaters). 
Personally I mostly find Draco to be a great big shithead, but I 
understand the attraction purely from the books. I kind of like bad 
guys too. And there's just something so funny about Draco. Especially 
in Order of the Pheonix, the terrible way he makes fun of Hermione in 
Care of Magical Creatures (jumping up and down waving his hand 
around) and when he whispers "*Remedial Potions?*" to Harry during 
his Occlumency lesson ... I'd like to see him get a kick in the ass 
but at the same time I'm fond of him because he's so well-written in 
these scenes. He's very evocative of a lot of the petty boys I knew 
in high school. He acts like a rotten little teenager, and I just 
enjoy reading that.

But I also can see why people might think or hope that his character 
might have a turnabout. If Draco starting working for the good guys, 
we'd get to cheer him on, and at the same time, enjoy him being a 
bastard. (Think: the antagonism between Spike and Angel or Xander or 
Giles in Buffyverse, post-chip).

> 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.

I've had a major crush on Snape since reading PoA, which I did right 
after GoF came out (I hadn't been more than a casual fan until then, 
when I went out and bought the third book in response to all the fun 
hype for GoF's release ... and after that I was hooked). That is when 
the true complexity of Snape's character first starts to shine 
through. He was always the most, shall we say, mysterious character 
in the first two books, but upon reading PoA I discovered (as did 
most people I'm sure) that his character had the admirable quality of 
conversely becoming even more mysterious and complex the more we 
learned about him. The revelation of his Death Eater past and his 
position of spy made him irresistable in GoF.

Now as for his looks. There's no denying he isn't good-looking in the 
books. In some ways that makes him even more appealing to me. I could 
try to explain why, but I'm sure it's been done a million times. I'll 
simply say that my Snape, the Snape of my mind, my favorite Snape, 
doesn't look like Alan Rickman, although I enjoy Alan Rickman's 
portrayal a lot. (In fact, when if first saw AR in "Dogma", several 
months before PS casting was announced, I thought, he'd make a pretty 
good Snape.) He actually looks an awful lot like JKR's sketch of him. 
So in short, I don't mind his ugliness. Really, the only "ugly" thing 
about him is his nose. The rest of it is all lack of hygiene on his 
part, and that kind of inspires more pity than disgust in me. 
Especially since reading OotP. But that's for another post ;)

- Annalisa