The Felix Felicis photo

[Carol]

zanooda wrote:
> <snip> why is Madame Maxime so ugly

Somebody (the post is unsigned and the attributions are absent)
responded: 
> How unkind to Frances de la Tour - I think she's perfect - and so does
Hagrid :-)

Carol notes:

Dan Radcliffe's Harry doesn't! Look at his expression when Hagrid says
something flattering about "Olympe." (BTW, I know you're joking about
zanooda's "unkindness." :-) )

That aside, I expected Madam Maxime to be both shorter and heavier
than Francis de la Tour as she appears in the film--more Hagrid's size
but with an ample bosom in place of a fat belly. The book describes
her as dark-haired and aristocratically "handsome." I hated her Yule
ball dress or gown, also very different from what's described in the
book. The French accent and the characterization, I agree, are
"perfect." It's only her appearance that's uncanonical (and, of
course, they've eliminated the whole subplot about prejudice against
half-giants, a wise decision, IMO). 

Of course, Fleur (Clemence de Poesy or some such name--I can't
remember without looking it up) is also less attractive than she's
described as being in the books, nothing like the Veela that Ron
thinks she is (with good reason, as it turns out).

Given the casting of those roles and of Lupin, Sirius Black, and now
Narcissa, none of whom looks as I pictured them, I suppose that we
shouldn't be surprised at the casting and costuming of Slughorn.
Still, the Slughorn in my head will always have walrus mustaches and
be fat enough to turn into a plush, cushiony armchair with no
difficulty. (Maybe he practiced that sort of Transfiguration when he
learned, upon experimentation, that his Animagus form was an
impractical walrus!)

Carol, who thinks that they've also uncanonically given Slughorn
Snape's old office and wonders how they'll transform *that* into
headquarters for the Christmas party