[ SECRET POST #4001 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4001 ⌋

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Comments

[soldatsasha]

Don't forget that she uses very similar language to describe Umbridge and iirc Slughorn. Mrs. Weasley is the only fat character I can think of where it isn't explicitly negative.

I don't think that JKR hates fat people or is fatphobic or anything like that. But I do think that she has a tendency to use physical features as negative descriptions. Snape is thin and hook-nosed. Umbridge has a face like a frog. Petunia and iirc Narcissa are described as looking pinched and bony. Vernon and Dudley are grotesque. Pansy Parkinson has a piggy nose.

And, I can see why this sort of thing really bothers people or why they'd see it as fatphobia or body shaming. (I don't agree. I think it's just a feature of the genre and narrator.)

[(Anonymous)]

It came off to me as very Dickensian, the way he would describe his characters tying in with their personalities.

[(Anonymous)]

And even Mrs Weasley (fat) is described as way more flawed and annoying than say, Mr Weasley (thin).

And yeah, you can't really go for 'looks and other traditional values like money etc. don't matter, it's about what's inside!' and then go 'but also, hermione and ginny and harry got totally hawt!1 and everyone who ever criticised them was like, really fugly and just jellus!'