Even worse than the hair

[Amy Z]

Some of the drawings of Hermione have her with hair that you could 
conceivably call light brown rather than blond.  Okay, I can handle that.

But her eyes are not blue.  Someone talked to the artist and reported back 
here months ago, and he said sure he read the books and he read that her 
eyes are blue.  He must've been stung by a Billywig at the time 'cause he 
never read any such thing.  We all know that you can be sure you saw 
something in the books and it turns out to have been a figment of your 
imagination, but I wish someone--JKR, an HP-obsessive at WB (if there are 
any), the artist's 10 year old kid, someone--had said to him, "Her eyes are 
BROWN.  Please change them!"

Grrr.

BTW, I had a nice experience with my HP-ignorant spouse this afternoon.  I 
explained the gnashing of teeth occasioned by the Celine Dion news (oh, 
someone please say it's a rumor instead), because long after I'd gotten off 
the net, I kept giggling to myself about Laurin's "the line for putting your 
head in the oven forms at the rear" line and had to share it with him (he 
laughed).  Then I got bold and explained the whole "Boy Who Lived" thing, 
even though it meant I had to explain the whole thing about Voldemort and 
the first chapter of PS/SS, and the fact that this expression comes up in 
fandom but not in the rest of the books, and everything.  He instantly 
understood why it seems so slogan-y and irritating to me, and why it was the 
last straw for The Dion to be singing a song by that title.  One day he's 
going to break down and read the books and my life will be complete.

Amy Z
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