Thread:KatnissEverqueen/@comment-1672596-20131227082459/@comment-24293334-20131228015835

Yes, I placed the ;) nearby as I was aware I was changing the line. We can't be quite sure why the townspeople (or at least two of them) seemed to favour Belle's beauty over that of the apparently more-attractive three blondes, and now that I think on it LeFou seemed rather shocked that Gaston would favour her over them (as he himself seemed more interested in the latter). Any edits I do on that section of the article will not be quite so overt and bold, I think.

I have a disturbing suspicion that you may be right about Belle. I'm not sure when you had your teachers, but back when I was a child in the '90s her aspirations seemed innocent and pure enough, and Christianity still seemed to be regarded as inseparable from true moral progress. It remains so, and thus the attempted separation of the two in this post-9/11 world has only brought misery to the lot of us. Returning to Belle, I recall that in Kingdom Hearts we found her reading in Maleficent's library; perhaps she is indeed vulnerable to corruption through the writings of the wrong people!