Red-haired Gryffindors

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 58718

yellows at aol.com writes:

> What hair colors would the others have had, then? I see Slytherin as a 
> blond -- probably because of the Malfoys. But is there any textual evidence for 
> this? How about Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw? Brown and Black, respectively? Those 
> are the colors I always associated with those names. Anyone else have a 
> thought?

Me:

The only description we've ever had was of the statue of Slytherin in the 
Chamber of Secrets.  It had an "ancient and monkeyish" face with a "long thin 
beard" and "sweeping stone robes."

I see Slytherin as a blonde as well, I guess partly because of Malfoy and his 
attitude.  Want more specific?  I picture a young James Spader, but with 
green eyes and a beard.  I think because James Spader used to play such an 
arrogant jerk in all those 80s movies.  I added the beard to make him look more 
medieval (the statue of Slytherin in the CoS had a beard), and the green eyes 
because of his affiliation with snakes and Slytherin's House color.  

I envision Hufflepuff as a blonde too because "Helga" makes me picture a fair 
Scandinavian woman with braids.  And Hufflepuff's color is yellow.

Ravenclaw, I picture with black hair because of the "raven" in her name.  I 
actually transferred my mental image of Moiraine, the Aes Sedai (witch) from 
Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series.  She is descibed as short and slender 
with large dark eyes.  She's also in the Blue Ajah, and blue is Ravenclaw's 
color.  

I too see Gryffindor as having reddish hair.  Gryffindor House's color is 
red, and I associate the lion with the Sun sign Leo, and with fire.  I might have 
mentioned it before on this list, but I did a portrait of a young, redheaded 
Richard Harris as Gryffindor wearing the Sorting Hat, as a tribute right after 
Richard Harris died.  It's scanned in here: 
http://www.geocities.com/audrahammer/godric.jpg  
Let me know off-list if you like it, or want to borrow it or anything.

-Audra-


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