Snape's Rage at Being Called Coward : Brave Snape

[Lisa]

No: HPFGUIDX 171913

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "doliesl at ..." <doliesl at ...> wrote:
> After the incredibly awesome & beautiful & mega popular Ginny-sue in 
HBP, why wouldn't Lily be pretty much the same?  Everyone's in love 
with her, didn't JKR said this herself "she's a popular girl."  Of 
course Snape, like all the other male speices (including mauraders 
probably), loves/admire/worship her but can't have her. 
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Lisa:  

I think the generalization is simply unbelieveable.  All the rest of 
the characters have their flaws to which we can relate, but not these 
girls.  I was "a popular girl" in high school, too, but that sure 
didn't translate to "everyone" being in love with me ... in fact, far 
from it.  I think JKR's categorization with no real follow-up about 
their characters in the books creates very flat characters -- shocking, 
compared to how well she's fleshed out the rest of the characters.