Harry's scar/eyes - Names

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 13519

> Am I being paranoid, or do you get the sense they're teasing us?  I
> can just see the editor now, deciding to cut an otherwise perfect 
shot
> out of the trailer because it shows The Scar and we aren't supposed 
to
> see it yet!
> Or maybe they've decided to make Harry scarless.  I mean,
> it's not that central to the plot, right?  (evil screenwriter's 
laugh)

The above was me, and I was being sarcastic!!  Drat, I need an irony 
marker.  Maybe a big "I" before and after statements like "it's not 
that central to the plot." 

Scott wrote:

> --When you think about it though a scar isn't really that obvious. 
In 
> fact they are usually, erm...(examining my own) a glossy type of 
pink 
> colour. A scar WOULDN'T show up that well on film. Perhaps they plan 
> to digitally enhance it during post production editing...

This is true.  On most of the covers they're red, but in real life 
it's not easy to see a scar (and Harry's is a thin one, PS/SS ch 2) 
unless you're quite close to the person.  I have no doubt we'll be 
able to see it just fine once we see the whole movie.  Harry is 
described as having bangs (maybe he's changed his hairstyle by GF, 
since everyone seems to notice his scar?), so if the filmmakers stuck 
to canon 100%, it would be covered up a lot of the time.  We know it's 
there!

> 
> BTW, whilst we're being nit-picky Dans eyes could be greener too.

I'm hoping that they are, and that the color just isn't coming through 
well on my Quicktime.  IMO, he really needs to have strikingly green 
eyes, not greenish like you see on lots of people, but *bright green.* 
 It's got to be easier to do this with contacts than with digital 
enhancement.  The pic that gets run a lot, one of the few in which you 
can really see the color of his eyes (the one where he's leaning 
against a pillar), seems to be a publicity still of the actor, not an 
in-character shot, so I'm not going to fret about the fact that his 
eyes aren't green there.

While we're on flower names (thanks, Steve's wife, for pointing out 
Narcissa, but I like D/Ha so I'm with Morsus--let's not make Draco and 
Harry related):  don't forget Pansy and Lavender.

Durmstrang is a sort of Spoonerism of Sturm und Drang, "storm and 
stress" (hence turmoil; also the name of a German literary movement).

Amy Z

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  The snake jerked its head toward Uncle Vernon
and Dudley, then raised its eyes to the ceiling.  
It gave Harry a look that said quite plainly:
  "*I get that all the time*."
                -HP and the Philosopher's Stone 
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