[HPforGrownups] all eyes

[artsylynda at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 58691

In a message dated 5/26/2003 8:27:16 AM Eastern Standard Time, HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com writes:

> As a fan of Harry Potter I have read the books several times each. The more I read them the more things I notice. One of the things I’ve noticed this time is that J.K. Rowling often describes the color of character’s eyes, more so than other authors do. Do you think she does that so we can visualize the character or do you think there's something more to it? Perhaps the color of a character’s eyes may be a symbol or an 
> allusion to something else. Let me know what you think.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Karen

I was just pondering the same thing.  Harry's eyes are green, V.'s are red.  Harry's wand shoots red sparks, V.'s shoots green (during the AK curse, anyway).  When the two color streams join, they become gold, which doesn't follow color theory either in light or painting -- red and green are complimentary colors (opposite each other on the color wheel), but the rest of the color theories are beyond my knowledge (all colors of light combined creates white light, all colors of paint combined creates mud, a nearly black brown).  I've been intrigued with this concept for a while now, that Harry and V have "complimentary" (opposite) color eyes, and their wands shoot colors the opposite of their eye color.  Maybe it's just an author's story-telling device, or maybe, given JKR's tendency to plant clues, it's important.  I'll be interested to read what those of you who are better theorists than I think of this idea.

Lynda