Lily's height

[Tim Regan]

No: HPFGUIDX 63759

Hi All,

Sorry I'm late to join this thread, Pip!Squeak just resurrected it 
in post < http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/63718>

--- In HPforGrownups > Steve "god" of the Lexicon wrote:
> 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.

Actually we do know Lily's height (at least in comparison to James 
and to Harry) from JKR's pen (or pencil) via another route. Does 
this 
<http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/hpforgrownups/vwp?.dir=/Harry+P
otter+%26+Me&.src=gr&.dnm=mirroroferised.jpg> count as cannon?

Cheers,

Dumbledad.