JKR's best interview

[ariadnemajic]

No: HPFGUIDX 75379

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> 
wrote:
Well, technically we never had the shape of Lily's eyes described to 
us before.  In fact, I found "almond shaped" to be an unusual way to 
describe eyes.  The only other reference to "almond shaped eyes" that 
I can find was in GoF, the Sphinx in the maze has almond shaped 
eyes.  Pulling from that information and the information that JKR 
gave in another interview when asked (regarding Harry having Lily's 
eyes) if some people could do magic with their eyes.  In that 
interview her response was a bit, er, suspicious. :) She kept asking 
why they were asking, and finally said that they were very clever.  
That there would be more coming on that.  I don't know much about the 
sphinx, though, other than that it guards treasure, but it was the 
only connection in HP I could find to the almond shaped eyes.  Anyone 
know more?


Ariadne:

That's a really good point--perhaps there's something like a 
metamorphagus or animagus that has to with a sphinx, some quality you 
can possess. And I've read in several other posts about Harry being 
able to do magic with his eyes--a sphinxamorphagus quality?! Of 
course, the shape could just be another red herring and it's the eye 
color, again, that is important.