Snape's Parents

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 134800

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "wickywackywoo2001" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> --- 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

yep, LOL.  Rowling does that a lot.  However, Luna is no beauty - 
isn't she plain?  And she is a good witch :)  And is Merope such an 
evil person?  She did a love potion, but that is not a dark art. 

colebiancardi(still wishing Rowling wouldn't make things either 
pretty/good & ugly/evil)

Snape is ugly, but is HE really evil?