Are Ginny's Eyes Brown or Green? And Uncle Tom (WAS: There are Loads of Clues)

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 46647

Richelle quoted me as follows:
 
> There was another clue on a different topic that I was going to
> raise, which was that in Ch. 3, at the Burrow, "Harry just caught
> sight of a pair of bright *green* eyes staring at him before it
> closed with a snap."  The "bright green eyes" are Ginny's, and this
> reference made me wonder whether whether there might be a
> relationship between Ginny's green eyes and Harry's green eyes.
> However, this reference is from the US version; when I pulled out my
> UK version today to find the quote for this post, I see that it
> reads "bright *brown* eyes."  Very curious, indeed!

and then Richelle replied:

> My US paperback edition says "bright brown eyes."  Which I found an 
> odd way to describe brown eyes.  Unless it's bright as in very 
> attentive and not bright as in color.  Because I can't quite 
> picture brown being considered bright (as in color).

Now me again:

I checked my US paperback edition when I got home last night, and 
sure enough, it says "bright brown eyes."  But I knew I'd 
heard "bright green eyes" somewhere, so I checked my CoS audiotape 
(US edition, Jim Dale reading) and Dale reads "bright green eyes."  
So either he's reading from the hardback version that was 
subsequently changed in the paperback, or he was in error.

If the latter, I'm wondering if he knows something we don't about a 
connection between Ginny and Harry...

Or maybe it's just that every other time Dale read "bright" in 
connection with "eyes," it was in reference to Harry's bright green 
eyes, so he just made a subconscious mistake.

Richelle also wrote:

> Other clues, someone mentioned the way Harry felt like Tom Riddle 
> was a long lost uncle or something when he was writing in the 
> diary.  I know it's been hypothesized that the diary was under a 
> spell to make one feel familiar with it, but what if it wasn't?  
> Technically, I suppose Harry had met Tom Riddle twice before.  Once 
> the year before and once as a baby.  But there still may
> be something in that yet.

Me again:

I suspect this reference is intended to lead us to think that Harry 
is somehow related to Slytherin.  But since I don't believe that, I 
wonder whether Riddle's name was familiar to Harry because Harry 
might have heard his parents talking about Riddle when he was a 
baby.  The name could therefore be in his subconscious somewhere.

If this theory is true, it leads to an interesting conclusion - since 
Dumbledore says at the end of CoS that very few people knew that 
Voldemort was once called Tom Riddle, this would suggest that Harry's 
parents knew this bit of information.  Which further suggests that 
they could have been in the inner circle of those fighting against 
Voldemort.

~Phyllis