A midget in glasses,

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "errolowl 
<nithya_rachel at h...>" <nithya_rachel at h...> wrote:
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> GoF Chapter 13
> "I was saying that Saturn was surely in a position of power in the 
> heavens at the moment of your birth...Your dark hair..your mean 
> stature...tragic losses so young in life... I think I am right in 
> sayin, my dear, that you were born in midwinter?"
> "No," said Harry, "I was born in July."

ME: You know there is another mention in canon of Harry being 
called "mean", for what it's worth. 

PoA Chapter 2

Aunt Marge says: "Pardon me. But I do like to see a healthy-sized 
boy," she went on, winking at Dudley. "You'll be a proper-sized man, 
Dudders, like your father..."

"Now this one here-" She jerked her head at Harry, who felt his 
stomache clench. "This ones got a mean, runty look about him. You 
get that with dogs. I had Colonel Fubster drown one last year. Ratty 
little thing it was. Weak. Underbred."

The definition in my dictionary: Runty -Like a runt; diminutive; 
mean;adj slang(used especially of persons)of inferior size...

In this context 'mean' is the same as 'runty'. 

Interestingly, Rowling described Harry earlier in the same chapter 
as follows: "Harry, still rather small and skinny for his age, had 
grown a few inches over the last year."

I don't think Rowling mentions any further growth of Harry herself 
after this, so I'll venture to believe both instances of the 
word 'mean' as referring to Harry's inferior height.
-Tanya