A midget in glasses

[Grey Wolf <greywolf1@jazzfree.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51463

Bel wrote:
> Personally, I think that Harry's slowly playing catchup with the other boys 
> his age. He's grown about six inches between PS/SS and PoA, and another few 
> inches in the next year. My guess is that he'll be average height for his 
> age by book 5, but is getting his growth spurts a bit later than some. (I 
> went to school with a boy who was shorter than I was when we were 11. To 
> put this in perspective, I was 3'6". <grin> I wasn't in classes with him 
> for the next four years. When I saw him again, we were 15. I was 5'0" and 
> he was 6'3". You just never know. <grin>)
> 
> bel

Extremelly OT, but I'm going to risk the wrath of mods: Bel, you *can* 
tell - in fact, that's the way it works. All "children" (i.e. 
pre-adolescents) grow at a certain, slow pace. Then, adolescency is 
inflicted and a series of growth spurts happen. And then, you stop 
growing (in most cases). Thus, the tallest people are those that 
reached adolescency latest, because they continue to grow at the 
child's pace until then - it's not that fast, but it does add up after 
a while.

Oh, oh, oh, a way to get back to HP: it might happen that the same 
thing will happen to Harry - since he is taking so long to finally 
start adolescency (when will he start shaving? It's not the sort of 
thing one can learn on his own, but maybe he was busy saving the 
school, had Ron show him and bought a couple of razors without JKR 
bothering to tell us - it's not particularly relevant when you compare 
it to the rest of Harry's life, after all).

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf