[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's other relatives???

[EnsTren at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 70046

In a message dated 7/13/2003 8:59:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
steffy07 at aol.com writes:

> I'd written (Nemi):
> > Since Harry has no previous idea what his family looks like it took 
> his ideas of what they should look like, to resemble him.

Steffy:
> --This is a good idea, but remember, when Harry gets the Photo album 
> from Hagrid at the end of the year in SS, he sees actual pictures of 
> his parents, I think the first time he has ever seen a picture.  He 
> doesn't mention that the pictures don't look like the people he saw 
> in the Mirror.  If the people in the Mirror were his own images of 
> what his parent's probably looked like, then surely when he saw a 
> REAL picture, if they looked different, then the Harry would have 
> thought to himself "Boy, my parents looked different in the Mirror 
> of Erised" >>>


Well, no.  He knows what his father looks like.  He looks like him.  As for 
his mother, well I can grant you that, but I can also argue it.  He's seen 
Petunia.  And considering all the family photos he's seen Petunia when she was 
younger.

Also, the photos are black and white.

Also, think of a picture you've seen.  Can you recall it with utter clarity?  
The exact shape of their face?   Esp considering he only saw it once or twice 
more than a year ago.

Humans are sensitive to color.  It is entierally possible that he put all of 
the diffrences off on a diffrent hair style.

I've done an experiment once.  I alternitivly colored a picture, and people 
literally could not ID the individual.  When I put the pictures next to each 
other, yes, but otherwise no.



Nemi
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