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

[arcum42]

No: HPFGUIDX 80313

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "boyd_smythe"
<boyd.t.smythe at f...> wrote:
> > 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!
> 

How can you possibly talk about the coolest characters in HP without
Bill Weasley? He works as a curse-breaker in Egypt, has a fang
earring, dragon-hide boots, and a ponytail, and is dating *Fleur
Delacour* after all. We even have cannon: "However, Bill was - there
was no other word for it - *cool*." 

Lupin, Fred, and George are high up there, though (And Fred & George
do have those dragon-hide jackets now)...
--Arcum