Comments | joe_mulcahy: Do Blondes and/or Beautiful People really have more fun? Not always.

joe_mulcahy

Do Blondes and/or Beautiful People really have more fun? Not always.

Apr 26, 2004 22:48

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 ( Read more... )

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joe_mulcahy April 27 2004, 02:24:01 UTC

*nice* That's what I get for typing so fast.

its your stalker again... erskie April 28 2004, 03:02:29 UTC

yep, im back to have my 2 cents again. I feel like im always here, hope you dont mind.

You raise a really interesting point, Id never looked at it this way before.

Wanting to be a psychologist i fond all your opinions fasinating, I mean i get females points of veiw on Harry Potter all the time, yet the male, not so much so.

I have to agree with everything, except the tag along sister part. I think Ginnys really grown into her character, shes a nice enough, if not slighly shy/awkward, girl. She athletic~ played seeker for awhile there, and I think once she got over the whole harry thing, shes kinda fun and spunky.

but then I do love Ginny most of all the characters after Snape.

Anyways like i said, you've given me something to think about ^_^ E.

Re: its your stalker again... joe_mulcahy April 28 2004, 11:02:34 UTC

You'll be hard pressed to find many men who like Ginny as fiercely as female readers do. Make no mistake, I do like Ginny and would gladly see her more in the books and the movies. But I think that females love her so much because female readers can identify with either Ginny or Hermione. Some fangirls even go so far as to Hermione-Sue and Ginny-Sue themselves in fanfics ( ... )

intenti0ns May 1 2004, 05:22:44 UTC

Yay! I agree completely. I'm sorry, but I just can't really get into a book if the heroines are all unappealing dorkuses (as you said "nagging female friends, weirdo airheads and/or tagalong kid sisters"). I'm sorry if I sounds like a cliquey preppy wannabe but it's true. I know that one major reason the HP series is so popular because the heroes/heroines (Harry, Hermione, and Ron) are all rather nerdy, ordinary-seeming kids but I think J.K. is overdoing it--she's trying to make the more conventionally attractive, more socially accepted people (like Cho or Fleur) sound like stuck up drama queens.

joe_mulcahy May 7 2004, 00:08:27 UTC

Yaay! It's so good to see that great minds think alike! No, you don't sound at all like a preppy wannabe, you sound very intelligent. JK is definitely overdoing it to tbe point of it getting almost unbelievable at times. Bashing pretty people in the books sucks too as I married none of the most pretty girls in real life. Had to fight off a lot of other guys for her heart, but I got it. I really don't like how JK writes all the beautiful people badly.

Thanks for commenting!