Also Blaise gets described as hard to please, et cetera, whereas I'm not sure Draco could play it cool enough to be described as same.
See, "hard to please" to me doesn't mean much more than that the person in question has self-set standards that are high; it doesn't necessarily mean the person themselves is a great catch. After all, there are plenty of ordinary looking men in the world, for example, who still think they should only ever have supermodel-like women on their arms.
Plus, one always sees Draco the fiendishly attractive silver-haired blond or the ratface. Having Blaise be hotter is a good way to strike a happy medium, while embracing Draco being attractive as well.
Oh, I get this and it's not even that I'm objecting to the idea that Blaise is considered hot by Fandom At Large; *I* pictured him as very attractive based on the descriptors given for him. It's just that there seems to be practically no *disagreement* about Blaise's attractiveness whereas with Draco, there's varying interpretation -- even though for both boys, all the narrative gives us of their looks is a description of their features alone, without comment on whether the features come together in a visually appealing way. The distinction is a curious - and to me, amusing - one.
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See, "hard to please" to me doesn't mean much more than that the person in question has self-set standards that are high; it doesn't necessarily mean the person themselves is a great catch. After all, there are plenty of ordinary looking men in the world, for example, who still think they should only ever have supermodel-like women on their arms.
Plus, one always sees Draco the fiendishly attractive silver-haired blond or the ratface. Having Blaise be hotter is a good way to strike a happy medium, while embracing Draco being attractive as well.
Oh, I get this and it's not even that I'm objecting to the idea that Blaise is considered hot by Fandom At Large; *I* pictured him as very attractive based on the descriptors given for him. It's just that there seems to be practically no *disagreement* about Blaise's attractiveness whereas with Draco, there's varying interpretation -- even though for both boys, all the narrative gives us of their looks is a description of their features alone, without comment on whether the features come together in a visually appealing way. The distinction is a curious - and to me, amusing - one.