how "lazily" is both evil and sexy in the HP books. Another reminder of Rowling's rather alarming attitude towards sex(uality), it seems. The house of water (female/ sexuality)and the serpent (female/ male/sexuality) is THE EVIL. In fact, there seem to be two variations of sexiness in HP. The evil one is the seductive lazy "feminine" way of drawling, leaning, and sprawling on surfaces. The way actresses in the 20ies were shown, looking at you with big smudgy eyes, eating grapes and so on. The other way is the "clean" sexiness of Ginny and Lily which consists of amazon-like behaviour. They are sexy because they are pretty and fiery and fight. Sort of male, really. Nothing lascivious there. Reminds me of that wonderful fic about the Hogwarts houses' different takes on sex as delivered by Snape....
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Date: 2008-03-28 11:43 pm (UTC)Another reminder of Rowling's rather alarming attitude towards sex(uality), it seems. The house of water (female/ sexuality)and the serpent (female/ male/sexuality) is THE EVIL. In fact, there seem to be two variations of sexiness in HP. The evil one is the seductive lazy "feminine" way of drawling, leaning, and sprawling on surfaces. The way actresses in the 20ies were shown, looking at you with big smudgy eyes, eating grapes and so on. The other way is the "clean" sexiness of Ginny and Lily which consists of amazon-like behaviour. They are sexy because they are pretty and fiery and fight. Sort of male, really. Nothing lascivious there. Reminds me of that wonderful fic about the Hogwarts houses' different takes on sex as delivered by Snape....