Hermione Granger, a fifteen-year-old student at Hogwarts played by eighteen-year-old actress Emma Watson, as been photoshopped in the poster for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to enhance her bust and slim her waist.
I have not read the Harry Potter books, but I have watched most of the movies. Connie is a big Potter fan. At any rate, I’m led to believe that Hermione is not depicted in the books as a stunning beauty. She’s not ugly, but neither is she a beauty queen. For that matter, she isn’t defined by her looks at all–what a concept! That a young lady as attractive as Ms. Watson was cast to play her may in itself possibly constitute a borderline case of Hollywood homely. That a grown man (I assume a man was behind this decision) would think that even Ms. Watson was not “pretty enough” to grace this poster, is an affront to normal-shaped girls and young women everywhere.
As the father of a kindergarten-aged girl, I am outraged that someone, somewhere, thought it was necessary to turn a character known for her intelligence and strong moral character into a Barbie doll.
Someone should be ashamed of himself.
I agree.
This is a significant error on the part of people who either don’t get it or are blinded by the “gospel” of this world.
Good.Grief. I am disgusted and disheartened.
As the father of two daughters, I agree completely. At my other, secular, job, a young woman of 22–extraordinarily beautiful, even breathtaking–felt such pressures by the culture that she spent money saved for college to have artificial breast implants. I felt very sad that she felt she “needed” such “help.”