Snape, Hagrid and Animals

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 143842

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at e...> 
wrote:
 
> Lupin is described as shabby and worn looking.  definitely not a 
handsome
> hunk.  But except for a couple people who have a different take on 
him, he's
> generally believed to be a good guy.

"Shabby and worn" is one thing, and that's definitely true about 
Lupin.  But it's mostly that he's tired, and poor. We're not supposed 
to be repulsed by him physically. That's not true with Snape. I would 
say some variant of this with all your other examples of "good" 
guys.  

> 
> Now let's take the so-called bad guys.
> 
> The impression I get from reading the series is that the Malfoys 
are not
> only rich and well-connected, but that they are all very attractive.
> Perfect hair, well-groomed.  i've always had the sense that 
Narcissa is
> beautiful, and Draco is probably a very handsome boy.  Lucius too.  
And
> Lucius is most definitely a death eater who purposely put that 
diary in
> Ginny's books.  Not very nice.

Well, that seems more like an opinion formed by the movies than the 
books.  Draco is not an attractive kid.  He's pale and he has a 
pointy face.  He's a bit ferret-y.  His father is the same.
> 
> Bella seems to be attractive too, though her attitude and demeanor 
> seem to put even her fellow death eaters off.

Bella WAS attractive.  She's not anymore after Azkaban.

> But let's move to the big bad guy,  good old Voldemort himself.  
Tom Riddle
> is described as very handsome, very charming.  He knew how to say 
and do the
> right things to charm everyone around him.  everyone but Dumbledore 
fell
> under his charm at school.  He was so well liked, that everyone but
> Dumbledore accepted his words about Hagrid being the one who 
released the
> monster that killed Myrtle.  Through the first war, he still had 
his Riddle
> body and was most likely to draw people to him with his looks and 
his charm.
> He's the evil in the series, and he's the most physically attractive
> character in the bunch.  

Come on now.  You think that's what children call to mind when they 
think of Voldemort?  Tom Riddle?  No.  They're going to think of the 
bloody-eyed man who visited Dumbledore to ask for a teaching 
position.  The slit-eyed scaly monstrosity he is at the beginning of 
GoF.  The slit-nostriled skeletal monstrosity that emerges at the end 
of GoF. The snakelike thing at the end of OotP.  Not to mention the 
talking head under the turban.  We're most definitely supposed to be 
physcially repulsed by Voldemort.

Leslie