Ginny has GREEN eyes?

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No: HPFGUIDX 112931

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Phyllis" <poppytheelf at h...> wrote:
> Antosha wrote:
> 
> <<I was just listening to the US audiobook of CoS (the one with Jim 
> Dale) and two things struck me.
>  
> First of all, at the end of Chapter 3, "The Burrow", Ron and Harry 
> are walking up the stairs to Ron's room, and they walk by an open 
> door inhabited by a pair of "bright GREEN eyes"-- Ginny's.>>
> 
> Blame it on Mr. Dale.  Ginny's eyes are referred to as brown in both 
> the UK and US editions, as well as on the UK audiotape. But Dale 
> definitely says "green" on the US audiotape.
> 
> ~Phyllis
> who thinks this was a Freudian slip on Dale's part, and had 
> formulated all sorts of fascinating theories about what Ginny's green 
> eyes signified before she found out it was only a mistake...

Yeah, I had all sorts of theories percolating away like a slightly over-cooked polyjuice 
potion... Ah well.

Not that this is precisely canon evidence, but I noticed that on the cover of the US book 
and audio, Ginny is clearly shown as having the same brown eyes as her brother. For what 
it's worth.

Another possibility bites the dust...

Antosha