Parseltongue
Does anyone else find it odd that in Harry Potter fanfic parseltongue is regarded as sexy? Let me outline three key points why I think that makes no sense:
1) Your average witch/wizard is going to immediately think Dark Wizard - remember what the dueling club was like when Harry spoke to that snake in CoS. They weren't aroused, they were scared.
2) More specifically, there's a couple of generations worth of witches and wizards who will not only think Dark Wizard, but also Voldemort, considering he was the most recent parselmouth that had actually gone out into the wizarding world. Now, maybe it's just me, but Voldemort is far from sexy.
3) Now, I don't actually have my copy of GoF with me right now, but if I remember correctly, when that caretaker went to see what was going on in the Riddle House and overheard Voldemort and Wormtail, Voldemort's parseltongue was referred to as 'hissing and spitting' to a point that the caretaker wondered if Voldemort was having a seizure. To the general populace, seizures aren't sexy.
So yeah, parseltongue, not sexy in my book.
1) Your average witch/wizard is going to immediately think Dark Wizard - remember what the dueling club was like when Harry spoke to that snake in CoS. They weren't aroused, they were scared.
2) More specifically, there's a couple of generations worth of witches and wizards who will not only think Dark Wizard, but also Voldemort, considering he was the most recent parselmouth that had actually gone out into the wizarding world. Now, maybe it's just me, but Voldemort is far from sexy.
3) Now, I don't actually have my copy of GoF with me right now, but if I remember correctly, when that caretaker went to see what was going on in the Riddle House and overheard Voldemort and Wormtail, Voldemort's parseltongue was referred to as 'hissing and spitting' to a point that the caretaker wondered if Voldemort was having a seizure. To the general populace, seizures aren't sexy.
So yeah, parseltongue, not sexy in my book.