Acceptance

[marion11111]

No: HPFGUIDX 178515

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "k12listmomma" <k12listmomma at ...> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>

marion11111:
I'm going to need to see an overweight character who is more positive than Slughorn!  He's 
greedy and lazy.  he lies by altering his memory.   He's two-faced, pretending to mourn 
Hagrid's spider in order to get what he needs. He sucks up to influencial people.  I've never 
gone in for the excuse that because he liked Lily, Hermione and Harry and stayed behind 
to fight in DH, he's a positive character.  Would you use him as a role model?  Then he's 
not a positive character.  He's just not as bad as some others. 

And I don't consider Hagrid and Maxine overweight.  They're giants.  We read that they're 
big but we don't read about double chins or paunchy wasitlines like we do with Uncle 
Vernon or Dudley.

I can't think of any characters who are described as skinny other than Harry in the first 
book.  I don't mean normal weight characters, but people described in a stereotypical way 
such as "bony."