Eyes / Bloody Baron / Dick

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 58707

Karen klekatgirl write:

<< 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. >>

Not often enough! She hasn't told us Sirius's or Remus's human eye 
color.

<< The blood that the Baron is covered with is silver blood. 
Therefore, I don't believe it is his. The only silver blood I know 
of is that of an unicorn. >>

It could be unicorn blood. It could be human blood, his own or 
someone else's -- as Odile and Taryn have pointed out: << But /all/ 
of the ghost is silvery-grey. It would be impossible to tell silver 
blood from red blood when you're a ghost. >>

Another possibility suggested once is that it *is* silver but is 
*not* blood ... it is in fact molten lead, based on the ghost of 
some castle in RL Britain who was killed by being thrown into a 
vat of molten lead.

Something I somehow left out of my previous comment about the Bloody 
Baron is that the adjective "bloody" doesn't just mean covered with 
blood, or blood-thirsty, but is also an explective. 

Odile wrote:

<< btw, is "Baron" a British title? I was thinking that it is more 
German, as in "The Red Baron" that Snoopy and others fought in WWI. 
If so, then is the Bloody Baron even English? >>

"Baron" is, as Ray already said, a British title. HOWEVER, it has 
occured to me that the Bloody Baron might not really be a baron of 
the peerage. If he's all done up in medieval armor and he bosses 
everyone around, why wouldn't the students call him "baron" whether 
or not it's true? In my imagination, he was a wizard who had a big 
castle and commanded knights and men-at-arms and there is called a 
baron, regardless whether any monarch granted the title. 

Sushi wrote:

<< At the risk of being crude, we've already got a Peter. Since 
Peter is British slang for *ahem*, and Dick is American slang for 
*ahem*, *technically* you could make the case that it's Wormtail. 
He's significant. Very significant. And he's got the weird 
cross-generational connection for Harry and Tom/Voldie. Hence... >>

Someone made that same argument to prove that "Percy" is D (for 
"Dick") in the theory of Weasleys having alphabetical names ...  
Arthur, Bill, Charlie, D--, E---, Fred, George ... but it falls 
apart with Ron anyway. 

Btw, I agree that we have Tom, we have Harry, surely Dick should be
in the story.