Snape's Parents

[wickywackywoo2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 134797

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "colebiancardi" <muellem at b...>
wrote:
What I hate is the 
> speculation that she, herself, was evil and nasty. Just because 
> someone is plain or "sullen looking" doesn't mean they are evil 
> people.  Her sullen expression could mean a lot of things - she could 
> have had bad teeth and didn't want to smile because of that....  
> 
Hey, I'll stop as soon as Rowlings stops!  But I'm not making up the
rules in this game, SHE is, and she has shown a consistent pattern of
making ugly females also evil or dislikable ones.  Similarly, the most
beautiful women are also the nicest: Lily, Fleur, Ginny, even Cho. 
They're not infallible, but they're on the side of good.  Hermione is
not described as a beauty, but she CAN look pretty when she wants to,
as we saw during the Christmas Ball in GoF, when she made such a nice
match with Krum.  Who do we have on the plain side?  Petunia, Aunt
Marge, Pansy Parkinson, Millicent Bulstrode, Mrs. Snape, Merope,
Eileen Prince.  There are few exceptions: Narcissa comes to mind, but
as we've seen in Book 6, there may be reason for moving her out of the
"evil" column; there seems to be a bit more to her than at first
appeared.  There doesn't seem to be much of a Jane Eyre theme in HP,
or even a C.S. Lewis strain - he did make a point of making the White
Witch beautiful as well as evil.  Instead, we seem to be in Wizard of
Oz territory: "Only bad witches are ugly."

Wanda