I can actually see the Twins classifying love potions as "girl stuff" but further into the book who are associated with the use of love potions are female and the victims are male. Besides providing a further example of Rowling's feminism (sarcasm)it doesn't make sense why a few male students why try out a love potions to score with the hot chick who otherwise wouldn't even speak to them.
Yes, let's think about that for a moment, shall we? It's that weird sort-of-child-like attitude where of course girls are all silly about guys and get crushes on them but guys are too dim to notice. When really, for goodness sake, wouldn't guys be paying money for the wizarding version of--what's it called...Spanish Fly?...instead? Not to make someone fall in love with you but to make them fall in lust with you for short periods of time. Probably if the love potions wear off they'd work just as well. Yet as of yet we've never seen it used. The only time we see a guy acting at all that way it's Cormac McClaggen when Hermione invites him to the Xmas party and he's all over her under the mistletoe. He's angry when Hermione leaves, but there's no hint this could be much danger to her. Malfoy and Nott smirk at the idea of love potions being powerful.
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Date: 2005-09-27 02:25 pm (UTC)Yes, let's think about that for a moment, shall we? It's that weird sort-of-child-like attitude where of course girls are all silly about guys and get crushes on them but guys are too dim to notice. When really, for goodness sake, wouldn't guys be paying money for the wizarding version of--what's it called...Spanish Fly?...instead? Not to make someone fall in love with you but to make them fall in lust with you for short periods of time. Probably if the love potions wear off they'd work just as well. Yet as of yet we've never seen it used. The only time we see a guy acting at all that way it's Cormac McClaggen when Hermione invites him to the Xmas party and he's all over her under the mistletoe. He's angry when Hermione leaves, but there's no hint this could be much danger to her. Malfoy and Nott smirk at the idea of love potions being powerful.