Beauty in HP (only evil needs advertising)

[kate_bossetti]

No: HPFGUIDX 114021

Antosha wrote:
 
> In JKR's fictional world, outward beauty seems to go hand-in-hand 
with vanity, an evil for 
> which she has little patience. It will be interesting to see if 
Fleur continues to flourish 
> (pardon the pun) and Cho redeems herself. 
> 
> Then there's Lily Evans. When Harry sees his mother in the Mirror 
of Erised, she is 
> described as pretty; when he sees her in Snape's memory, her eyes 
are "startling". So 
> perhaps there is a place for good-looking people in the WW, too.


This is Kate:

  So: my teacher used to say that only evil needs advertising.

   For example – health. How much advertisement of chocolate, alcohol,
chips, mayonnaise, etc. can you find in TV? And what about – let's
say – carrot, or any other kind of (fresh) vegetable? People will buy
them anyway, won't they? When it comes to HP books this theory seems
to work: the good ones aren't very beautiful (like you have
pointed out).
   What's more – Arthur Weasley said to Harry something like this:
don't trust anything if you don't know where its heart is. In other 
words: `don't trust beauty, because instead of its heart you see its 
face' (yes – it's farfetched, but seems to be OK for JKR world)