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

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No: HPFGUIDX 78954

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

In GoF, Rita described him as having a charming face during the 
weighing of the wands.  I think the above descriptions are how Harry 
see's himself. Just a thought.

Severus "always been a pretty boy" Snape