Do Blondes and/or Beautiful People really have more fun? Not always.
Has anyone noticed how poorly blondes are written in the Harry Potter Series? Has anyone noticed that beautiful people are also written as snobs or otherwise undesirable people? No?
Well here is some evidence.
Fleur Delacour- Very attractive but snotty and makes disparaging remarks about Hogwarts.
Narcissa Malfoy- Harry finds her attractive were it not for the look of something smelly under her nose
Luna Lovegood-Possibly the least attractive of the blonde characters but is written halfway decently. Is seen as Loony by peers though.
Draco Malfoy-Enemy of the hero of the story, can't get much worse than that.
Lucius Malfoy- Do we even need to start how seditious he is?
Yes yes, I know some of you are saying "but there are badly written brunettes as well" true, but try to find many blondes who are written well...
And for beautiful, but badly written/ and or bad brunettes we have
Bellatrix Lestrange-attractive although Azkaban did nothing for her looks. You all know what she did.
Cho Chang- Very pretty. Pretty enough for Harry to notice right away. Heck if you think about it, she was the only girl in the whole series that even us male readers were attracted to right away! She was above all Nice, and she was also smart, pretty, and athletic...what more could a guy ask for? But Oh my gosh! I was ready to burn the book when I saw what JKR did to her! JKR did what many Mary-Sue story writing fangirls would have done to a girl that competed too much with her Mary Sue(s) (Hermione and Ginny). I mean come on! Who in their right mind would write one non-white character and write her with only half an arse about it? I mean what was JKR smoking when she wrote Cho in book five? Or perhaps she wasn't smoking anything and figured that she'd play on the prejudice that already exists toward Asians and write the one East Asian in the whole series badly? What the heck was up with that?
I'll bet she selected an Asian girl to assasinate because she figured the docile Asians wouldn't do a thing about it. If she dared write only one Israeli, South African, or Hispanic girl and wrote her badly, she would be living in fear of her life today.
It's so strange to see a book series that depicts the pretty girls poorly and writes the average to ugly girls as the heroines. Granted that is probably why it appeals so widely to girls (most do not fall into the very pretty or beautiful group of girls), but do they have to make minorities and blondes look bad.
Why does this matter to me? Because I happen to be blonde haired, blue eyed guy. We're not bad people. If you're blonde as well, then you'd know that. We're mice folks.
And yes, Cho is my absolute favourite character in the whole Harry Potter series. She was the only major girl student that didn't bore or annoy me. (*hint* men generally don't like nagging female friends, weirdo airheads and/or tagalong kid sisters)
Well here is some evidence.
Fleur Delacour- Very attractive but snotty and makes disparaging remarks about Hogwarts.
Narcissa Malfoy- Harry finds her attractive were it not for the look of something smelly under her nose
Luna Lovegood-Possibly the least attractive of the blonde characters but is written halfway decently. Is seen as Loony by peers though.
Draco Malfoy-Enemy of the hero of the story, can't get much worse than that.
Lucius Malfoy- Do we even need to start how seditious he is?
Yes yes, I know some of you are saying "but there are badly written brunettes as well" true, but try to find many blondes who are written well...
And for beautiful, but badly written/ and or bad brunettes we have
Bellatrix Lestrange-attractive although Azkaban did nothing for her looks. You all know what she did.
Cho Chang- Very pretty. Pretty enough for Harry to notice right away. Heck if you think about it, she was the only girl in the whole series that even us male readers were attracted to right away! She was above all Nice, and she was also smart, pretty, and athletic...what more could a guy ask for? But Oh my gosh! I was ready to burn the book when I saw what JKR did to her! JKR did what many Mary-Sue story writing fangirls would have done to a girl that competed too much with her Mary Sue(s) (Hermione and Ginny). I mean come on! Who in their right mind would write one non-white character and write her with only half an arse about it? I mean what was JKR smoking when she wrote Cho in book five? Or perhaps she wasn't smoking anything and figured that she'd play on the prejudice that already exists toward Asians and write the one East Asian in the whole series badly? What the heck was up with that?
I'll bet she selected an Asian girl to assasinate because she figured the docile Asians wouldn't do a thing about it. If she dared write only one Israeli, South African, or Hispanic girl and wrote her badly, she would be living in fear of her life today.
It's so strange to see a book series that depicts the pretty girls poorly and writes the average to ugly girls as the heroines. Granted that is probably why it appeals so widely to girls (most do not fall into the very pretty or beautiful group of girls), but do they have to make minorities and blondes look bad.
Why does this matter to me? Because I happen to be blonde haired, blue eyed guy. We're not bad people. If you're blonde as well, then you'd know that. We're mice folks.
And yes, Cho is my absolute favourite character in the whole Harry Potter series. She was the only major girl student that didn't bore or annoy me. (*hint* men generally don't like nagging female friends, weirdo airheads and/or tagalong kid sisters)