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

[jeanico2000]

> 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
>
Hi, Steve: I love your comments, as I have also wondered about all 
this throughout the series. If I had once single 'beef' about the HP 
books, it's JK saying things like (really loosely quoted) "they 
finished eating, pulled on their PJ's and fell into bed"... hello? 
couldn't she just say something like "they got ready and changed for 
bed before going to sleep"? or "they used a cleaning charm, then 
turned out the lights?"... I don't know, but I'm sure even wizards 
require a minimum of daily maintenance, and this could be a little 
more implied in the stories, IMO!   
Nicole