Harry's looks (was Harry's sexual preference)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 78950

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jksunflower2002" 
<mkeller01 at a...> wrote:
> 

<heavily snipped>

> 
> Just had to throw this in:
> 
> The Boston Globe, Oct. 18th, 1999
> 
> JKR: "Yes. I've even drawn a picture of how they look. Harry has 
his 
> father and mother's good looks. But he has his mother's eyes and 
> that's very important in a future book." 
> 
> I happened across this a few weeks ago.  Sounds like he's more of a 
> cutie pie than we may have thought.
> 
> Toad (Who thinks Harry could look like Crabbe or Goyle and still be 
> just as lovable.)

Geoff:
Yes, but you can have good looks without being "dishy" if that word 
is still fashionable. I don't see Harry as the sort to turn heads on 
a beach.

And, there again, despite the quote from JKR, look at her 
descriptions of Harry:

PS: ...but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age.... 
Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair and bright green 
eyes. He wore round glasses....

COS: Harry looked nothing like the rest of the family.... Harry, on 
the other hand, was small and skinny with brilliant green eyes and 
jet black hair that was always untidy. He wore round glasses....

POA:  Harry, though small and skinny for his age, had grown a few 
inches over the last year. His jet-black hair, however, was just as 
it had always been: stubbornly untidy, whatever he did to it. The 
eyes behind his glasses were bright green......

GOF: Harry.... peered into the mirror on the inside of the door. A 
skinny boy of fourteen looked back at him, his bright green eyes 
puzzled under his untidy black hair.

OOTP: He was a skinny,black-haired bespectacled boy who had the 
pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in a 
short space of time.

Not quite in the cutie pie category but likeable. Like many of us. 
I'm glad some heroes are a bit like me and not clones of Arnie or 
Leonardo di C. I can identify more easily.