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[Kewpie]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "vincentjh" <vincentjh at y...> 
wrote:
> I would just raise my hand and say that "someone" who brought up  
the 
> issue of Cedric being dark-haired was me. However, I've never come 
> across anyone who suggested that Draco should have dark hair.

I was glad that you brought that issue up since I am quite interested 
in this topic (where there's a generalization among fans regarding 
how a character should look even though the Canon says another way). 
I think you could even find some posts about Draco should have dark 
hair right here in this group (from way back of course). 
 
> As far as I know, it's fairly common in Hollywood to have 
> innocent/angelic blondes and evil brunets, more so in female 
> characters than male. The latest example I can remember would 

I suspect that was the main reason too. I always wonder how did this 
stereotypes started in the first place. This stereotype does not 
exist in the country where I grew up since everyone has dark hair 
there. It was until I came to the US I learned there's such 
stereotype. I was quite surprised to read posts (in other HP boards) 
like "There's no way Draco is blonde, he is evil". Even when CoS came 
out, there are still fans saying how Lucius should have dark hair 
despite how blond his son already was.

> Interestingly, JKR seems to have a thing for dark hair. Harry, 
James, 
> Sirius, Cedric, Snape...lots of "good" caracters have dark hair. 
Even 
> the ultimate evil Voldemort was a charming young man with dark 
hair. 
> On the other hand, many on the "bad" side have blond hair--the 
> Malfoys, Barty Jr., Aunt Pettura and so on. If the division by hair 
> color is to be trusted, I am almost certain that Bagman would be 
> evil...

It is really no doubt that JKR have a thing for dark hair and seems 
to have something against blonde (I only say "seems" because she 
herself has blonde hair). Is there ever a "good" character has blonde 
hair in the story? Besides the ones you mentioned, Uncle Vernon and 
Dudley both have blonde hair, there's also Lockhart, Fleur, 
Narcissus, even Rita Skeeter is a blonde too! 

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> of Stoads Hill and met Mr. Doggory, Cedric's father, who has a
> 'scrubby brown beard' and a ruddy complection (Gof USA HB Pg 77).
> Being scandinavian, my instinct would be to assume a young son would
> have lighter hair than his father which is pretty consistent for
> scandinavians.

Well piror to the description of Cedric's father, did you already 
made the assumption that Cedric is the blonde Matt Damon/Brad Pitt 
type in PoA? If you did, then whatever is mentioned in GoF doesn't 
really matter since you already see him as a blonde right? That just 
proved my point. When a character is "extremely handsome, popular and 
nice", he is immediately linked with a blonde pretty boy in many 
people's mind. 
 
> The problem is that I already had a picture of Cedric in my head 500
> pages before I was told his hair was dark, although it's probably
> brown. Too late then, I had my image of Cedric and I couldn't 
change it. 
> 

Even when you re-read the books for the n times? (oh I know we all do 
that right? ;P)
In my case, I never formed a mental image for Cedric when I read PoA 
since he is such a minor character. And I tend to not form any solid 
mental image on any characters until they were mentioned more later 
on. So I don't have problem seeing Cedric as a brunette when his hair 
color was mentioned later in GoF. 

> Personally, although I can't explain why, I always pictured him as a
> blond. Perhaps I naturally assumed pale fair skin meant light 
colored
> hair. If anyone can find an earlier reference to Draco's hair 
color, I
> would like to hear it. 

Yes there is, Draco's hair color is mentioned in PoA, USA Pg 280. in 
the US version, it says "silver-blond hair".


Joan