Hair Color/Appearance

[Penny & Bryce]

No: HPFGUIDX 33490

Hi --

Amy Z wrote:


> Ana wrote re: Lupin:
> 
>  >He is the only main character about whose, say, facial features  JKR 
> writes
>  >nothing. We know a lot about appearance of others, especially Dumbledore
>  >and Snape, whose looks are described to the smallest detail.
>  >Why not Lupin?
> 
> Perhaps she is allowing our imaginations their maximum range . . . <g>
> 
> I don't actually think the difference is that striking.  Some main
> characters get quite a detailed description <snip>
> Then there's Draco, about whom we know only that he has a pale, pointed 
> face
> and cold gray eyes; we finally learn his hair color midway through PA.  (I
> think many of us filled in that he had light hair because of the repetition
> of "pale,"

Are Draco's eyes described as "cold" or are you filling that in, Amy?  <g>

 just as, as Marianne pointed out, we envision Sirius with black
> hair--BTW, I think we get that from "Black" as well as from the Grim.

We know his hair is black.  Carole & I combed through all the books when 
we wrote A Sirius Affair.  In GoF, the fireplace scene where Harry 
unburdens himself to Sirius -- "when they had said goodbye, Sirius' face 
had been gaunt and sunken, surrounded by a quantity of long, black 
matted hair ...."

  I think of Sirius as having dark eyes even though his Animagus form has light
> eyes...hmm.)

*I* think of him as having blue eyes.... sort of the Scots-Irish 
coloring that I have (dark hair, blue eyes).  Carole thought of him as 
having brown eyes, and she won out for our fanfic descriptions, absent a 
canon reference.  :--)

Penny
(who will reply to Amy's belated Ginny thoughts later .... hopefully)