Harry, Voldemort, eyes

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 75087

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marosifig" <marosifig at y...> 
wrote:
> I noticed a strange thing: Harry has green eyes, (Slytherin´s 
colour) 
> and Voldemort has red eyes, which is Gryffindor´s colour.
Didn´t 
JKR 
> say that the colour of eyes would play a large part in later plots?
> What do you think?

I haven't read interviews with JKR, so I'm not sure if she said that 
eye *colour* is the important thing, or just *eyes*.  After all the 
talk about how Harry has Lily's eyes, seeing her in the OotP makes 
me think that Rowling might not have been talking about physical 
eyes, but she may be speaking metaphorically.  I think Harry will 
come to see *through* Lily's eyes, and see the world as she did.  
>From the glimpse in the Pensieve, I think she has compassion even 
for the unlovely.  I mean, she was in 5th year too, she'd have known 
who Snape was, and all about his unsavoury interest in the Dark 
Arts, as well as James did.  But when she saw him being victimized, 
she had compassion, and tried to help, even though she got nothing 
for it.  I think Harry will become more like Lily, because at the 
moment, he's a lot more like James - a sort of "action man", wanting 
to leap up and DO SOMETHING at every moment, not to mention having a 
lot of negative feelings like rage and hate bubbling inside.  His 
talk with Luna at the end of the year was typical - his first 
thought was to criticize the students who took her things, and next 
he offered to help her round them up.  She didn't take either route, 
though - she just accepted the odd facts of her life, and calmly 
trusted that people would do the right thing on their own, without 
someone having to do anything to make them.  I think it was good 
that he started to see some value in her very different approach to 
problems.

Wanda