[HPforGrownups] Re: Was Eileen a Slytherin? (Was: The Irma/Eileen Theory & Snape's Return)

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No: HPFGUIDX 164525

We are also getting our views through the eyes of teenaged kids who then to label other kids they don't like through physical qualities.  What the in crowd thinks of "ape like" could just be another tag for being tall.  How many of us were called "fat" by other kids and really were quite normal for our height but just different than the others.
 
J in WI


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" :
 
> 
> As for Eileen's being in Slytherin, we're on somewhat shakier 
ground,
> but, again, I agree with zgirnius. In addition to the Houses tending
> to run in families, we have the (admittedly not definitive) evidence
> of Eileen's general unattractiveness. With the exception of the 
Blacks
> and possibly the Malfoys, the Slytherins tend to be relatively
> unattractive, ranging from the (merely) fat Slughorn to the apelike
> Crabbe and Goyle, the pug-faced Pansy Parkinson, and the large,
> square-jawed Millicent Bulstrode. (IIRC, Marcus Flint, who may be
> related to the Bulstrodes based on the Black family tree, is 
described
> as looking like he has Troll blood--not likely to be true, but 
hardly
> indicative of good looks.) Eileen's description, "a skinny girl of
> around fifteen . . . simultaneously cross and sullen, with heavy 
brows
> and a long, pallid face" (HBP 537) fits right in with the generally
> unattractive typical Slytherin--and sounds rather similar to her
> (Slytherin) son, who was also skinny and pallid as a teenager.
> (Nothing about a hooked nose, though.)
> 
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