Cool is as Cool Does (was: Hint in Cos)

[boyd_smythe]

No: HPFGUIDX 80278

> Zeynep Oner said:
> (Thus, it's official: DD is the coolest.) <


This got me thinking--always a dangerous proposition. Who does JKR 
present as "cool"? And why? What IS the meaning of life?

OK, scratch that last. But this could be a fun thread!

My pick as the coolest living cats in the Potterverse are...

5. Dumbledore. Yes, he's cool. A right powerful bloke. Not too worried 
about what others think. Obvious, but not the coolest.
4. Harry. Absolutely cooler in the books than DD. He is, after all, 
the main hero, capable of stopping a speeding DE in a single spell as 
a teenager. Able to leap tall Voldies in a single Priori. Yep, he's 
occasionally moody and a winner. But not the coolest.
3. Shacklebolt. Just another stud auror who plays it cool, wiping 
small memories in a heartbeat and dropping DEs by the score. Sure, we 
know almost nothing about him, but that's because he speaks only when 
he wants to be heard. But not the coolest.
2. Lupin. By day a man with animal magnetism. By night (occasionally) 
a wild animal who plays by no one's rules. But not the coolest. Which 
brings us to the winners...
1. Fred & George Weasley! Yep, these so-bad-they're-good boys are 
pranksters who march to their own drummer. If school doesn't suit 
them, then they're out (with a bang). Clearly the coolest cats in 
school, they've taken their act to a whole new audience for book 6. 
Let's give them a hand!

What does it mean that JKR makes them the coolest? I guess she's 
trying to say that good guys can have fun, or that sometimes rules 
were made to be broken, or that she's very attracted to redheads on 
brooms. Who knows?

As for you Snape-, Tonks- and Draco-lovers, you're trying too hard. I 
could maybe be convinced of Lucius, but it doesn't look too cool to 
lose, does it?

Let the coolest win!

-Remnant