Bloodlines & Social Order Backstory (Was: Another Flint)

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No: HPFGUIDX 119296


> Carol wrote:
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> And I think, though of course I could be wrong, that the narrator's
> comparison of Marcus Flint to a troll and Millicent Bulstrode hag 
is
> just a metaphor, just Harry's impression of these thoroughly
> unpleasant people. (I dislike the idea of ugliness being associated
> with evil, as in traditional fairy stories, but that's another 
problem
> altogether.) It's most unlikely that a house which excludes
> Muggleborns on principle would admit part-humans, who would be
> infinitely more inferior in the eyes of Lucius or Draco Malfoy. 
Marcus
> Flint is (IMO) almost as unlikely to be part troll as Snape is to 
be part bat.

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Potioncat:
I've noticed that Slytherins are described in less than attractive 
ways.  But if you look at it, the Gryffindors are not pretty either 
(movie contamination aside)  I don't have canon to quote, but IIRC, 
Hermione has frizzy hair and large teeth, Ron is gangly with a long 
nose, Harry has terrible hair and a scar...

I'm not sure if this is something JKR will use to turn things upside 
down for us, or if she is just very good at using ordinary people as 
her inspiration. (Pansy looks like a pug, Hermione looks like a 
beaver)

Potioncat