Cedric Tall & Blond? OT: book illustrations

[brinforest]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:

> I think the blond vs dark hair goes back to the many references in
> society to good being light and bad being dark. The good guys 
always
> wear white hats, bad guys black. Also, blond is associated with a
> 'bright' outgoing personality where as dark hair implies a dark
> brooding personality. Of course, it's not true, but I think that 
is a
> general association many people make.


How's this for influence?? The Finnish cover illustration of CoS 
portrays both Draco and Lucius with shiny black hair combed tightly 
to the sides with a middle parting, almost Hitler-style. Draco shows 
some longer neck hair beneath the ears, but not Lucius. And Lucius 
is wearing a muggle coat and tie, of all things!!! (And D and L are 
both hideously ugly, mind you - although to put it harshly, so is 
everyone else, since the covers are done in an over-the-top cartoony 
style.)

The cover of GoF, then, portrays a kind of sandy-blond dreamy-
looking Cedric, and a PROFOUNDLY weird-looking Krum. And I mean 
SERIOUSLY. Even his mother wouldn't recognise him. He has plaits 
with some red and green ribbon in front of his ears. Don't ask!! And 
that's far from the only weird thing in the Finnish cover 
illustrations, but that's totally OT... I like other things that 
artist has done, but I think he really should have read the books 
with a smaller dose of, erm, Confusing Concoction...


Brin