Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is too 'not-skinny'/Book 5 publication date

[joanne0012]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "williamhause2000" <william.hause at i...> wrote:
> We may need a new actor to play Harry if Daniel Radcliffe puts on 
> much more weight!  In the book Harry is scrawny.  After Harry's fight 
> with 'you know who' Daniel is shown lying on his back.  From that 
> perspective you can see that Daniel Radcliffe is not skinny.

It's true, Daniel didn't look *skinny*, just regular.   BUT: was Harry described 
as skinny throught the book(s) or just at the beginning of SS?  The Dursleys 
had somewhat underfed him and he was excited at the prospect of having all 
he wanted to eat at Hogwarts.  Once he started eating those big meals, he'd 
fill out just fine and not be skinny anymore by the time he confronts 
Quirrelmort.  Plus, at that age, lots of kids put on a little weight in 
preparation for growth spurts.

All this stuff about green eyes, lanky Ron, skinny Harry, or bushy hair and big 
teeth on Hermione just aren't essential to the story.  The important thing is to 
get fine child actors, which they did do.  (They can give Lily blue eyes if it's so  
important that Harry's eyes match hers.)

Going back to message 31756:

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "rth_adidas" <rth_adidas at h...> wrote:
> Does anybody have any idea on when the fifth Harry Potter book will 
> be out?

The Guardian has recently reported that JKR has given the publisher no 
indication when she'll be done with the first draft of the manuscript, and the 
soonest likely publication date is September 2002.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,619138,00.html