Lily's height

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z <lupinesque at y...>" 
<lupinesque at y...> wrote:

> Falcon wrote:
> 
> >According to the HP Lexicon, Lily's build is tall and thin. Just 
> >like James. So, we have two tall parents. 

More on that in a moment.

> 
> Hey, I'm the first to say Lexicon Steve is a god,

Amy, you crack me up. My only hope in the face of such a statement 
is that none of you actually go to Nimbus and meet me, because "god" 
is not going to be the first word that pops into your head. 
Maybe "shlumpy," but not "god." 

As for the reference in the Lexicon to Lily's height, I checked that 
page, then I checked the books. The only physical description we 
have of Lily come from chapter 12 of SS, which includes this 
paragraph:
     She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair 
     and her eyes -- her eyes are just like mine, Harry 
     thought, edging a little closer to the glass. Bright 
     green -- exactly the same shape, but then he noticed 
     that she was crying; smiling, but crying at the 
     same time. The tall, thin, black-haired man standing 
     next to her put his arm around her. He wore glasses, 
     and his hair was very untidy. It stuck up at the back, 
     just as Harry's did.
James is in fact described as tall and thin, but Lily is not. 

Here is almost certainly what happened. When I created those pages, 
I did so on the same evening. I wrote James' page first. I copied 
James' page, removed the text but kept the formating, and wrote the 
Lily page. Part of the formating that was kept was the list thing at 
the bottom. I think what must have happened is that I didn't remove 
the line about "tall and thin" when I was editing from James to Lily.

We do know one more thing about Lily, of course. She know that she 
was about 22 when she died. That doesn't make her tall and thin, 
though.

Steve
"god" of the Lexicon

who takes out the trash, puts his 11-year-old to bed, argues with 
his 14-year-old, does the laundry, gets over-tired and grumbles to 
his longsuffering and very beautiful wife, and is perfectly normal, 
thank you very much

so there