Sirius Black eye color/colour

[plinsenmayer]

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From: plinsenmayer
Subject: Re: Sirius Black eye color/colour
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7054] Re: Sirius Black eye color/colour
Date: 8/17/00 10:08 am  (ET)

<<<Penny,

I'm not certain that I understand about the brown eyes. If the majority
seems to think that Sirius' eyes are gray why is it decided that they are
brown by fiat. It just seems a little undemocratic. Or, maybe there is
something that I'm not aware of being a new member. Let me know. Thanks,
Jim>>>

Jim --

Carole & I are writing a fanfic (a fictional piece based on the HP stories
in some way & written by a fan). BTW, there are close to 5000 HP fanfics
on www.fanfiction.net at the moment. Anyway, our fanfic features Sirius
as a primary character. We wanted to describe his eye color, but the books
don't give an eye color for Sirius. We were merely soliciting opinions on
this Board to see what people pictured or thought. I preferred icy blue
and Carole preferred dark brown. As between blue or brown, opinion was
probably about evenly divided. I think more people piped up and said
"neither blue nor brown, but grey." But, neither Carole nor I liked
the idea of grey eyes too much for our fanfic. So, we disregarded &
opted for the brown. Call it artistic license. <g>

This has nothing whatsoever to do with what color eyes he actually has
or what anyone else must believe. People who said "grey eyes," will
probably still think of him as having grey eyes. But, in our limited
little fanfic world, he'll have dark brown eyes.

JKR will maybe give us his actual eye color in a later book -- we're
possibly (probably) wrong with the dark brown decision, but if that's
the only little detail we get wrong in this fanfic, I'll be very happy
(I'm still worried Sirius won't even live past Book 7, which really
makes our fanfic very wrong (to say the least)). It's set in the summer
of Harry's 21st birthday, so we figure Sirius is about 40 or so.

If you want to read it -- you can find it in the Files Section of the
following egroups list:

http://www.egroups.com/group/ParadigmOfUncertainty

Sorry -- maybe I wasn't too clear that this "vote" was strictly
for purposes of helping Carole & I waste more time with our fanfic
writing. <g>

Penny