[HPforGrownups] Re: Acceptance

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 178457

> sherry k
>
> I agree. Many of the more disagreeable characters have been heavy:
> Uncle Vernon, Dudley (although he did redeem himself), Aunt Marge,
> and Dolores Umbridge. Is it too much to ask for a positive heavy
> character, particularly a female one? I do concede she does throw
> us a bone with Neville-- he starts out the series as the proto-
> typical stupid fat kid, he ends up being quite the brave character.


Shelley:
This argument was hashed out before, and I seem to remember people coming up 
with positive characters who were heavy:
Hagrid, Madame Maxine, Slughorn. If you search the archives, you could come 
up with the full list. The full comparison also includes skinny people who 
were bad, so that if you look at the totality of who's on both sides (skinny 
and heavy), you can't draw the conclusion that heavy = bad, but rather see 
that there's an even distribution.