Ginny's Appearance

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From: plinsenmayer
Subject: Ginny's Appearance
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Date: 5/6/00 11:28 am  (ET)

<Well, I went through the books, and Ginny has "flaming red hair" and
brown eyes ("Harry just caught sight of a pair of bright brown eyes
staring at him before it closed with a snap." page 40, CoS, American
Version).>

Interestingly, Jim Dale says she has green eyes in the audio version
of CoS -- which I assume means she had green eyes in an early draft and
JKR changed her eye color for some reason (although she has brown eyes
in the Brit version too so maybe in that case Jim Dale just said green,
even though the script said brown).

I am fairly sure Jim Dale is using a fairly early draft to read these
audio versions though. He says Voldemort is the last remaining "ancestor"
of Slytherin rather than "descendant." For those that haven't heard
me elaborate on that before, it's "ancestor" in the Brit versions but
changed to "descendant" in the US version. I've speculated about whether
JKR intended "ancestor" and the Brit editors were asleep at the wheel
or if the US editors screwed something up by changing it. Yes, Skimmel,
that whole ancestor/descendant thing has concerned me that it's somehow
a time travel deal. But, I don't *really* think that's the deal.

Penny (who's finally back from a 2 week vacation to England & Scotland --
now over the jet lag I think too)