eye colour and other queries

Carol justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 6 18:22:12 UTC 2007


Sharon" wrote:
>
> I posted on the main HP list about eye colour and then thought it
might be a bit off topic--or could easily GET off topic.
<snip>
> 
> 2. Draco's eyes are always descibed as grey (my favourite is
'full-moon-over-the-water' LOL). I don't remember Draco's eyes ever
being described in canon at all, though I possibly wasn't paying
attention. <snip>

Carol responds:

I thought sure that someone would provide the exact quotation by now,
but apparently not. Here goes:

"The man who followed could only be Draco's father. He had the same
pale, pointed face and identical cold, gray eyes" CoS Am. ed. 50).

In case you have the Bloomsbury edition, it's in chapter 4, "At
Flourish and Blotts," a few pages into the chapter. (Harry is hiding
in the cabinet in Borgin and Burkes).

BTW, the Bloomsbury edition probably spells the eye color as "grey,"
but in the American edition, it's "gray."

Carol, who frequently has to change "grey" to "gray" in American
manuscripts and wishes she didn't have to because she likes "grey" better






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