The significance of Harry having Lily's eyes

[jen_kat_du]

No: HPFGUIDX 138857

Mimbletonia wrote:

> > The _reason_ why Harry has Lily's eyes is not and was never a 
> > mystery - it is simply because he is her son.

Kris wrote:
 
> Something I was thinking about when pondering the whole eyes
> question...
> 
> "The eyes are the window to the soul."  
> 
> So with Harry having Lily's eyes... are we seeing a clue to 
> something more about what is protecting Harry?  Perhaps there is a 
> magical connection between Lily's soul through her sacrifice?  Has 
> she passed her soul to him? 

JKR said in her one of her interviews that Harry having Lilly's eyes 
would have a particular importance by the end of the series.  I 
reread SS the other day and I had forgotten that when he looks into 
the mirror of Erised that he sees all of his family, not just Lilly 
and James (movie contamination of my mind).  It mentions all of the 
pairs of green eyes that he sees in his family.  Just a thought, 
what color are Petunia's eyes?  I bet they aren't green.  I couldn't 
find a reference to it anywhere.

Jen
The biggest Harry Potter dork in Western North Carolina

PS My local library won the first signed copy of HBP, Scholastic 
delievered it themselves!  Nanny nanny boo boo!