[HPFGU-OTChatter] Book Harry vs. Movie Harry

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

I'm so behind!  I'm terribly sorry.  The last two weeks of school 
completely ate my brain, and then I had to take a week to recover.

At 6:57 PM -0400 5/31/02, Bernadette M. Crumb wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "sarahlinks14" <sarahlinks14 at yahoo.com>
>
>>I was wondering what other readers of HP
>>  have experienced.  Have you kept your own versions of the
>characters
>  > or do you picture the movie characters?
>
>Count me in as one of those who still have the original images in
>her head.  If I think about it, I can see Dan Radcliffe, Rupert
>Grint and Emma Watson as the characters, but when I'm just
>straight reading, it's my interior versions of them that comes to
>mind.

I do a little bit of both.  My Harry is still my original Harry, 
although I like Radcliffe's portrayal as well.  I didn't ever have a 
strong internal image of Ron, so I now see him as Grint, only a 
little taller (it bothered me a bit in the movie that Ron was shorter 
than Harry).  My internal image of Hermione originally looked, er, 
well, a lot like me circa 5th grade; now it's about half that and 
half Watson.

I had only read SS when I saw the movie, BTW, and that mostly because 
Dr. Beers had it on the recommended reading list for my Secondary 
Language Arts Methods class.  Seeing the movie was the impetus to get 
me to read the other three books, which I did in the following three 
days.

>I will admit that Alan Rickman does look a LOT like the Snape in
>my head except the one in my head has a narrower face and frame
>and a slightly more aquiline nose.  Otherwise, pretty much spot
>on!

Ditto, only mine is a bit younger.  Having just seen the extended 
"first day of Potions" sequence from the DVD, that was near to 
perfect!  (Shame that the rest of the extra features aren't quite up 
to snuff.)  Tom Felton is also very close to my internal Draco, so 
much so that he's it now.

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  - Boggles, aka J. C. B. Ramon			boggles at earthlink.net
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