mctabby: Feisty Redheads R Us poll

Minerva McTabby (

mctabby) wrote,
@ 2006-03-17 11:05:00

Feisty Redheads R Us poll
Poll #692620 Feisty Redheads R Us
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 646

So, Harry's latest canon girlfriend rather resembles Lily. That's really...

View Answers

coincidental
88 (13.6%)

cute
48 (7.4%)

Freudian
437 (67.6%)

funny
65 (10.1%)

interesting
79 (12.2%)

meaningful
63 (9.8%)

obvious
208 (32.2%)

original
7 (1.1%)

predictable
289 (44.7%)

squicky
228 (35.3%)

touching
30 (4.6%)

untrue
57 (8.8%)

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	thunderemerald 2006-03-17 08:17 am UTC (link)
	So now anyone with red hair looks alike, huh? Gotta go back and find where JKR wrote that one.... ;) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mctabby 2006-03-17 08:28 am UTC (link)
	dedicates the "untrue" option to you** :D (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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jehnt, 2006-03-18 01:11 am UTC

	thecoldacre 2006-03-17 08:23 am UTC (link)
	GIP (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mctabby 2006-03-17 08:30 am UTC (link)
	I bet Slughorn's really getting off on this. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tekalynn 2006-03-17 08:59 am UTC (link)
	You missed "creepy" and "disturbing". (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ankhet 2006-03-17 09:09 am UTC (link)
	ah, therein would be "squicky" (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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	mooncharm 2006-03-17 09:00 am UTC (link)
	damn, I was really hoping for 'annoying' as a choice. :P (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ankhet 2006-03-17 09:09 am UTC (link)
	me too.. see my icon for my het pairing of choice (too bad she didn't make my het trio...twins/Hr...sniffle!) ...sadly, H/G is my bf's pairing of choice (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aquila1nz 2006-03-17 09:26 am UTC (link)
	Harry's mother and girl friend both look like the author? Definitely coincidental. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	simmysim 2006-03-17 01:41 pm UTC (link)
	HA. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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	ptyx 2006-03-17 10:16 am UTC (link)
	It's also kind of Mary-Sueish. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	euphory 2006-03-18 04:02 am UTC (link)
	Well Lily is sorta of a Sue... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mimoletnoe 2006-03-17 11:03 am UTC (link)
	Oedipian, to be precise ;-) (Reply to this)

	aegflota 2006-03-17 11:42 am UTC (link)
	She's got the same personality, too. -.- I don't like it. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mctabby 2006-03-17 12:04 pm UTC (link)
	offers biscuit Here, go read some T/G. The authors have just been revealed in that fic exchange - this fic is the work of kethlenda. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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ook, 2006-03-17 05:37 pm UTC

	amanuensis1 2006-03-17 11:45 am UTC (link)
	boring. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	slinkhard 2006-03-17 04:18 pm UTC (link)
	So what happens on those pages? (I have the UK edition.) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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slinkhard, 2006-03-17 04:39 pm UTC

	casirafics 2006-03-17 12:15 pm UTC (link)
	Am I the only one who read this and suddenly wanted to write Lily/Ginny just to mess with everyone's heads? ...don't answer that. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ajat 2006-03-17 01:28 pm UTC (link)
	Please do it ! You'll need a time-turner ... But GO anyway ! pumps fist jubiliantly We need LE/GW to mess with people's minds ! (Reply to this) (Parent)

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author_by_night
2006-03-17 12:40 pm UTC (link)

Very untrue.

Apart from having red hair, I don't see any resemblances. Plus, I see even their hair as being different red; I've always thought of Ginny as having hair that, on some days, could almost pass for strawberry blonde, and Lily as having the sort of red hair that sometimes looked brownish. I'll grant you, redheads, like people with black hair, often have similar features, but not always, and nothing JKR or the books have said has indicated that Ginny and Lily look alike, unless I am mistaken.

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	a_t_rain 2006-03-17 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	I'm with you. Half the population of the Potterverse has red hair, for heaven's sake. That's like saying Percy Weasley "rather resembles" Mundungus Fletcher or young!Dumbledore. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tinderblast 2006-03-17 01:06 pm UTC (link)
	The connection has always repulsed me. (Reply to this)

	espresso_addict 2006-03-17 01:34 pm UTC (link)
	Red does seem to be Ms Rowling's Mary-Sue hair colour of choice. Unfortunately for me it's also mine. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	author_by_night 2006-03-18 01:45 am UTC (link)
	Red hair is the latest Forbidden Hair Color? Red hair does not a Mary Sue make. Except in Nancy Drew. ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ashfae 2006-03-17 01:44 pm UTC (link)
	Blah, say I. Blaaaaaaaah. (Reply to this)

psychic_serpent
2006-03-17 02:22 pm UTC (link)

Because any guy with a girlfriend who has the same hair color as his mother MUST have Oedipal issues. ::rolleyes::

Are all gay men really lusting after their fathers because they're also *gasp* MEN?

Harry never even KNEW his mother. Now Ron, OTOH--Hermione is a heck of a lot like Molly... read into THAT what you will. ;) But at least that's about personality and behavior, not a shallow thing like hair color.

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reabhecc
2006-03-17 04:35 pm UTC (link)

Now Ron, OTOH--Hermione is a heck of a lot like Molly... read into THAT what you will.

You're right... never thought about that.

Although I freely admit that I find attractive men who are in some ways like my father - taller than me, beards are good, darker hair colours, artistically or quirkily inclined. But I don't want to marry my dad, nor do I want to marry someone who is entriely like him - I would prefer a husband who likes to dance, who has a decent business sense and a slower temper and who isn't the child of alcholics.

"All women become their mothers. That's their tragedy. No man does. That's his" - Oscar Wilde

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	sasha_davidovna 2006-03-17 02:42 pm UTC (link)
	If they end up with two adorable kids named James and Lily, I am going to scream. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	csc_lupisstone 2006-03-17 06:33 pm UTC (link)
	Hear hear! Even more so if Lily Jr has red hair, green eyes and James Jr has black hair brown eyes. Because Harry and Ginny's features work it out to do that. gag (Reply to this) (Parent)

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	gabycat 2006-03-17 03:49 pm UTC (link)
	I am hoping Harry changes for Luna... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	katsumi_chan 2006-03-18 01:46 am UTC (link)
	Same here xD (Reply to this) (Parent)

slinkhard
2006-03-17 04:15 pm UTC (link)

No discussion of this topic is complete with a link to the Venn Diagram of Oedipal H/G: http://mpuppet.livejournal.com/29336.html

And who on earth is voting 'cute'/'touching' etc? (I could just go check the results for the poll, I suppose, but undoubtedly someone I know will be on there or something, and I'll end up gravely insulting them.) I mean, people finding H/G cute or likeable in anyway (and I'm non-partisan when it comes to Harry shipping, really, so this isn't a plea for H/Hr or H/L or whatever.) is baffling to me, but I can see why people might disagree, but actively thinking it's sweet that his girlfriend resembles his mum? Er...
Mind you, that (and it's not just a hair thing, there's also direct paralleling of them in both canon and interviews) coupled with Ron/Hermione doubling for Arthur/Molly at times (as both Harry and Ron note) says something squicky about JKR...

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	aegflota 2006-03-17 05:49 pm UTC (link)
	And who on earth is voting 'cute'/'touching' etc? (I could just go check the results for the poll, I suppose, but undoubtedly someone I know will be on there or something, and I'll end up gravely insulting them. I'm going to have to check it anyway. Probably for THAT REASON ALONE. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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lanjelin, 2006-03-21 04:07 pm UTC

And part 2 -

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Re: And part 2 -

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lanjelin, 2006-03-20 05:29 pm UTC

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lanjelin, 2006-03-21 01:05 am UTC

even more convoluted babblings - poor mctabby -

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Re: even more convoluted babblings - poor mctabby -

lanjelin, 2006-03-20 11:48 am UTC

Re: even more convoluted babblings - poor mctabby -

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Re: even more convoluted babblings - poor mctabby -

lanjelin, 2006-03-20 01:26 pm UTC

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Re: even more convoluted babblings - poor mctabby -

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slinkhard, 2006-03-20 08:56 am UTC

goodness, this is a long sentence -

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	finmagik 2006-03-17 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	I bet he calls her Mommy in bed. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	noagirl 2006-03-17 06:58 pm UTC (link)
	falls over laughing (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Want to bet that Jo pulls the old switcheroo at the end? ook 2006-03-17 05:19 pm UTC (link)
	And Harry ends up with Hermione or someone completely different. Remember the more that she insists something is completely true, the more likely it is to be false. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Want to bet that Jo pulls the old switcheroo at the end? queenoftea 2006-03-17 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	Unfortunately, H/G is written as though they're supposed to be in tru wuv. But I'd LOVE if Harry ended up with Pansy. That would be irony at its finest. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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	ladysorka 2006-03-17 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think Ginny looks like Lily and we don't know enough about Lily's personality to make that comparison, but I do find it squicky that some of the Harry/Ginny shippers seem to think that the resemblance is a key part of their relationship. (Reply to this)

a_t_rain
2006-03-17 11:16 pm UTC (link)

So, er ... do all the people who voted "squicky" categorically refuse to date everyone with the same color hair as one of their parents, ever? How does that work out? Considering that there are only about four major hair colors, that could knock out half or more of the population if your parents don't have the same color hair as each other, and if your parents have black hair and you happen to live in Japan or something, it seems to me that you'd be really screwed...

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	josanpq 2006-03-17 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, this one is really easy...they're all correct except that last one. Untrue? No bloody way. There is a little Mary Sue in every story written and I see JKR as definitely Lily...La Créatrice du petit Harry. "Let go, darling," says Lily in the famous graveyard scene. Electra complex anyone? (Reply to this)

	hormoaning 2006-03-17 11:51 pm UTC (link)
	Didn't JKR say in the interview that Lily was popular and stuff like that? So, there's another connection! (Reply to this)

subcon_ruler
2006-03-18 12:00 am UTC (link)

I don't really think it's sweet or cute that his girlfriend looks like his mom, but it is realistic that people are attracted to personality traits of their opposite-sex parents. Dunno about physical traits though, and that's where it might become squicky for me. I get heavily turned off by guys that look like my dad. o_0; So if we're defining it on the basis of physical and not personality traits, then yes it could be a bit squicky. Though Harry never really knew Lily, so maybe not. I dunno. But it's not altogether unnatural/unrealistic of Harry to be attracted to someone that acts like his mother.

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