Sirius Black

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No: HPFGUIDX 14812

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...> 
wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> I'm long overdue responding to some substantive HP posts ... have a
> small bit of time on my hands and a desire to clean out my HP 
folder so
> .... here goes:
> 
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> Marianne wrote:
> 
> > One other note re: appearance.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've
> > gone back through PoA (US edition) and not once is there a clear
> > statement regarding Sirius' hair or eye color,
> >
> His hair is black -- long matted black hair (I think this is when 
the television report is on at the Dursleys but I could be 
mistaken).  
His hair is definitely black though -- it's somewhere in PoA (and 
probably GoF too).  And, since JKR has said that Sirius was intended 
to be "dead sexy," it supports my theory that she definitely has 
a "thing" for men with black hair (James, Harry, Hagrid, Snape, 
Sirius ....).  :--)
> 
> Long overdue in responding to some of this -- sorry guys!
> 
> Penny
> 
>Nope, the description given at the time of the TV report is "a 
matted, elbow-length tangle."  No mention of color. There is a 
definite mention of Sirius' hair being black in GoF, but my theory is 
that JKR deliberately didn't give us any overt descriptions in PoA, 
and figured we'd all make the right assumption that he's another of 
her black-haired guys.  A friend recently finished PoA and when I 
asked him to give me a description of Sirius, the first words out of 
his mouth were "He's got black hair."   

I think we all got the same mental image because the illustration on 
the title page shows a person with dark hair (even though we know 
that illustrations can be incorrect), the name Black, Harry's thought 
on the Knight Bus that Sirius looks like a vampire, the black dog, 
Flitwick's assertion in The Three Broomsticks that James and Sirius 
were like brothers, and that it is always night whenever Sirius makes 
an appearance.  Plus, for a good, long while we are lead to believe 
that Sirius is one of the baddies.  It all adds up to a dark 
appearance.  
> 
Marianne, who's getting way too obssessive about this...

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