[HPforGrownups] [OT] No, Harry, *I* am your father...

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 3586

Hi --

Kathleen Kelly MacMillan wrote:

> I don't have my copy of CoS handy, but I am almost sure it says Ginny
> has green eyes (the scene where Harry and Ron are walking up the
> stairs at the Burrow and see her peeking out of the doorway, right?)

Kathy -- you may be thinking of the audio versions -- Jim Dale very
definitely says green eyes rather than brown.  I think Dale must have
been reading from a non-final draft of CoS.  My British version of CoS
also says brown eyes.  So . . . . the scenario might seem to be as
follows (a) Junior level American editor thinks that all redheads have
green eyes & changes Ginny's eye color when revising the Brit version,
(b) Dale takes one of these drafts for recording purposes, and (c) more
Sr. American editor, in comparing the final British version with the
almost-final American version, says "Hey!  Why did you change the eye
color?  Not a change demanded by idiom & such -- change it back to
brown."

Or --- Jim Dale mis-read it as green in the recording process and noone
ever realized the error.

Penny


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