Acceptance

[Tiffany B. Clark]

No: HPFGUIDX 178459

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.

Tiffany:

I felt there were a lot heavy set good characters also, but it seems 
that most of them either are "bit players" or aren't as frequently 
seen as the others.  I think that the idea of skinny being good or 
heavy being evil isn't very fair because there's an even 
distribuition on both sides of the weight issues.  I think that on 
the whole of it all that JKR wanted us to look beyond the obvious 
differences & pick up on the major themes & issues behind them.  At 
least that's the idea that I got when I read the canonical novels 
themselves.