Harry's green eyes

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 85306

Carol wrote:

But what's extremely odd is that the eye colors and wand light colors 
are opposite. In other words, Voldemort has red eyes but the light 
from his wand is green, matching Tom Riddle's old house: Slytherin. 
Harry has green eyes but the light from his wand is red, matching the 
scarlet of Gryffindor.
 
What on earth does it mean? It can't be that green (Slytherin) = evil
and red or scarlet (Gryffindor) = good. That's too simplistic and the
eyes suggest the exact opposite (though of course Slytherin = good and
and Gryffindor = evil is even more absurd). The union of the houses?
The end of rivalry and division at Hogwarts? Is gold associated with
Fawkes the Phoenix? The only thing I can think of now that's golden is
the snitch, and that leads us exactly nowhere.

Me:

I don't know if you have noticed that the colours of the Golden 
Snitch are those of the Gryffindor and Slytherin houses...? 
The "body" of the Snitch is golden, yes, but its wings are... 
silver :-) The Scnitch is a perfect unity of the Gryffindor and 
Slytherin colours... I don't know if that leads us anywhere :-)) P.S: 
I don't know if it is Fawkes that originally gave the Gryffindor 
house its gold and red colours, but I am sure golden-red Fawkes and 
the house are connected.

Personally I think Rowling's use of colours often means something. 
What exactly, I'm not sure :-) Has anyone noticed her use of colours 
in the silver instrument scene in OoP? The one where a SILVER 
instrument issues GREEN smoke from which a SNAKE arises. And a few 
sentences later (still in the same scene) Rowling repeats 
these "clues" when Dumbledore walks over to the portrait of Phineas 
Nigellus to ask him to alert Sirius in Grimmauld Place: Rowling 
describes Phineas as being painted in the Slytherin colours of GREEN 
and SILVER, and she makes Dumbledore call his name twice to arouse 
him: "Phineas, PHINEAS" (capital letters are written in italics in 
the book)... We have reason to believe the name "Phineas" 
means "SERPENT's mouth"... :-) This scene has intrigued me for a 
while, and I've filled a few pages with notes. Maybe I'll share it 
with you guys sometime :-)

By the way, later in OoP, Harry tries to flee Grimmauld Place because 
he fears he'll kill or injure his friends believing he is possessed 
by the "snake" Voldemort, when Phineas stops him with a message from 
Dumbledore telling Harry to stay. When Harry realises he doesn't get 
to know why he has to stay, he loses his temper. Rowling's 
description of his emotions: "It was like a snake rearing out of tall 
grass," or something to that effect. Well, what's the colour of 
grass? :-)

Berit
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