[HPforGrownups] Acceptance

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 178468

From: Carol <cinders at voyager.net>
>Everyone has been talking about the books being about acceptance, and 
>now this big thing about DD being gay. Well, what about with people 
>that are overweight? Does JK not like them? I mean there was "the fat 
>lady". She never even had a name, but I don't remember anyone having a 
>cow about that, though it bothered me all along. She deserved to be 
>more than just "the fat lady."

Being fat is never considered to be a positive trait in the books, but it is often treated as a negative one. The male Dursleys, Aunt Marge, Bagman, Umridge, and Slughorn come to mind immediately as characters whose weight was associated with their faults.

Bart