Ugly equals evil? (was:Re: Snape's Parents)

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> >>Wanda:
> 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:
> <snip of examples>

> >>Colebiancardi:
> 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)

Betsy Hp:
Actually, I've not found that to be the case. Beautiful does *not* 
equal good in JKR's world.  A prime example is the devastantingly 
handsome Tom Riddle.  (Does Harry ever skip an opportunity to 
describe him as good looking?)  The Black sisters are another good 
example.  Both Bellatrix and Narcissa are described as quite 
beautiful, and yet they're both very much Death Eaters.  (Narcissa 
loves and wishes to protect her son, but she's also *very* 
interested in Dumbledore dying.  And she was directly involved in 
the plan that led to Sirius's death.)

Actually, what I've found interesting is that very few characters 
are ever described as good looking.  Tom Riddle, Bill Weasley, 
Fleur, the Black sisters, Sirius, Cho, Cedric, Blaise, Ginny and 
possibly Lily are the only ones I can remember off the top of my 
head.  And there's a fairly even distribution of good and evil and 
neutral folk on that list.

We can only guess that Hermione and Ron and Harry are attractive 
because they've got admirers, and of course, Harry as hero should be 
attractive according to the rules of the genre.  But generally, 
JKR's descriptors are not all that flattering.  Even with the good 
guys.

Betsy Hp