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

[jksunflower2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 78952

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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.
 
Wow!  Rather wicked quick with the quotes, aren't you?

Yes.  I thought JKR's comment rather condradictory to what she's 
written in the books myself.  But, there you have it.  Perhaps in a 
year or two he'll, uh, blossom into a good looking young man. 


> 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.

Having always being identified as the "unattractive" daughter, I'm 
with you.  I was actually a little disappointed when I read that 
quote.  And confused.  

Toad (Who still loves Harry no matter what he looks like.)