[HPforGrownups] Re: Acceptance

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 178539

> marion11111:
> I'm going to need to see an overweight character who is more positive than 
> Slughorn!

Shelley:
Molly Weasley. Order of the Phoenix member. Brave fighter in the Hogwarts 
battle. In the end, she even took out Bellatrix.

Carol <cinders at voyager.net> wrote:
> I guess my thing was then why did she never give the "fat lady" a
> name? If she is so accepting of differences, why was she always just
> the "fat lady"?

montims:
but where is the negative connotation, except in the minds of certain
readers?  She is the fat lady because she is fat.  She could just as well be
the spotty lady or the blonde lady - it is a description.

Shelley:
Look at all the ghosts- the Gray Lady, the Fat Friar, and the paintings- 
many of those you never get a name for as well. They are just titled as 
something about them- even Nearly Headless Nick's name almost implies that 
the "nearly headless" part is way more defining of him than his name. If 
someone said, "Go talk to Nick the Ghost", new students might say "Who?" But 
then one would say, "You know the one- Nearly Headless?" "Oh yeah, that 
ghost!" For the new Gryffindor, it might just be easier to explain that the 
common room door is behind the "Fat Lady", because that painting itself 
might be so "large", as well as the woman in it, and that's the defining 
feature that makes it stick out from all the other portraits in that general 
location. I agree- it's just a defining feature, not an insult or a judgment 
of her. She doesn't need a name, because Rowling is painting a visual 
picture with her words. She does name her best friend though, "Vi" or 
"Violet", because the Fat Lady talks about her without her being in the 
scene at the moment for us to get a description of what she looks like.