Hermione & Handsome guys (Was Hermione...Genius?)

[Arya]

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 "jmgarciaiii" <jmgarciaiii at y...> wrote:
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....although Hermione has shown a weakness for handsomeness, and HP 
has not really been described as handsome.*
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Hermione has a weakness for haondsomness???  I think Krum was 
described as only being slightly less awkward and unattractive than Gabbe 
and Coyle the human rocks.  She was 12 (super age for a girl's first baseless 
crush) when she was on about Lockhart.  AND I think it's important to point 
out that Lockhart appeared to be much more than a charming smile.  He was 
the author of several books (who do we know who likes books???), he was 
supposedly a very widely knowned and skilled wizard and was touted (if by no 
one else by himself) for his selfless heroics (saving an entire town from some 
ridiculous creature, yada yada yada).  The frilly robes, coiffed hair and 
charming smile just distract everyone while he displays his incompentence.    

Hermione's very first words about Lockhart are after they see a sign in F&B 
about his booksigning: "We can actually meet him!" Hermione squealed.  "I 
mean, he's written almost the whole booklist!"  She hasn't seen him yet and if 
she was only just now getting the books he wrote, she would never have 
seen his picture and what he looks like.  She sqealed about him without any 
knowledge of how handsome he was.  She was interested in him for what he 
had done and his skill (supposed) as a wizard.

Also, in regards to Harry being handsome, I think there are two things that 
might allow it to be true that he's not just "awkward and knobbly kneed".  
First--everyone's critical of themselves and so, I think we get Harry's critical 
impression of himself.  Second, if James was all that (which it seems he was) 
he couldn't have been too shabby too look at (at least average with a more 
than healthy bout of strut and swagger, I'd wager.)

Arya