Red and Green and Gold and Silver:(Was: Harry's green eyes)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85404

> Kirstini wrote:
Well, Harry's jet of light is red because it comes from the 
Expelliarumus spell, whereas Voldemort's is green because it's an 
Avada Kedavra. Harry's earliest memory: jets of green light=bad. Then 
he gets to Hogwarts where green = Slytherin = Draco = enemy. I don't 
know if we have it anywhere else in canon that Expelliarumus is a red 
jet though - we know that Stupefy is. Someone flag down a passing 
L.O.O.N?

Annemehr responded: 
Aw, we don't need an actual L.O.O.N.!  I just went to the first time
we saw the spell cast, at the Duelling Club meeting:
"[...] Snape cried: 'Expelliarmus!'  There was a dazzling flash of
scarlet light and Lockhart was blasted off his feet: [...]"
 
Annemehr who loves that scene; silly wand waving, indeed -- that was a
blast of
pure *power!* 

Carol: 
Thanks, both of you. (I'm the one who posed the question about wand
lights vs. eye colors.) I feel considerably more enlightened now. It
appears, though I haven't made any effort to verify it, that defensive
spells cast a red or scarlet light and offensive/dark arts/illegal
spells cast a green light. We know that Avada Kedavra does, at any
rate. What about Cruciatus and Imperius?

Also thanks to Annemehr for the Snape quote. And people wonder why we
think he's sexy!

Carol