recent pix of Phelps and Grint - HAIR, Long Beautiful Hair, ...

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe <valerie.flowe at ...>
wrote:
>
> > And now Lauren:
> >
> >  Valerie, where did you find a recent picture of the Phelps Twins?
> >  I'd be interested to see what they look like now.
> >
> >
> 
> Lauren,
> I was checking out pictures of the Empire Awards. There was a pic of 
> Rupert and James P. Check it out...
> Valerie
> 
> > http://www.empireonline.com/awards2006/gallery/show.asp
> 

bboyminn:

I wonder about the characters Hair in the up-coming movies. I notice
most have shorter hair as you can see from the photo of Rupert and
James. That's, for the most part, not a problem. But I noticed in a
recent CBBC Newsround interview that, while Dan's hair is longer than
it was, it is still pretty short. I can't help wondering if the next
time we see him, he will be in a wig?

Not that I have a problem with anyone's hair getting shorter. In fact,
Dan's hair seems more spikey and prone to sticking up now that it is
short. I'm just wondering what the studios are thinking about this,
and whether they will leave things as is, or if they will force Dan to
wear a Harry Potter wig? 

Of course, this brings up another canon point, do young wizards
actually need to get their hair cut, or does it stay at the perferred
length by force of Will? We never see anyone go to the bathroom, but
it is implied that bathrooms exist, and must therefore be used. We
never see anyone take a bath, but again bathing places are implied and
again we can reasonably assume that they are used. 

Still not a mention of any hair cutting facilities anywhere in the
magic world. No mention of walking past the barber shop on the way to
The Three Broomsticks. No mention of a barber shop in Diagon Alley.
Students stay at Hogwarts for 10 months at a time, certainly in 10
months, someone somewhere would like to have a haircut on the
assumption that hair grows about an inch per month. Still no mention.

Of course, books, movies, and TV are filled with shows where no
character ever gets a haircut unless they can somehow work it into the
plot. But then again, we don't necessarily follow the lives of those
characters for a full year. There are great gaps in time in which
characters could be getting haircuts but we don't see it. To some
extent that is true of the Potter universe, but still we follow every
pertinent day of the characters lives for a year and never so much as
a mention in passing. Certainly, haircuts are not relavant to the
story any more than bathroom breaks, showeres, or brushing one's
teeth, but you would think their might be a passing reference.

It could be, as implied by the time Petunia cut Harry's hair and it
regrew overnight, that to some extent each individuals magical desire
or magical self-image controls Hair growth and appearance. 

Just curious.

Steve/bboyminn