Madam Hooch: Yellow Eyes?

[fanofminerva]

No: HPFGUIDX 130746

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pot_of_harry" 
<pot_of_harry at y...> wrote:
> pot_of_harry wrote:
> > > my question to anyone that is interested is:
> > > Why is Madam Hooche's eyes yellow?
> 
> Chys:
> > I thought bird eyes right away, like she'd tried to transfigure 
as 
> > an animagus and got caught in the morph.  
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry took so long to reply, been away for a while...
> I think yourself and Jazmyn could be right...probably a 
transformation
> that didn't quite end up as it should have, or maybe her eyes are
> permenantly transformed to her advantage.  I am not sure which 
book,
> (I have been sifting through the pages of the first two books 
without
> any luck), but I remember Harry walking past McGonagall's class and
> overheard someone being turned into a badger and having red eyes 
for a
> while afterwards?  Describing them as hawk like, might be a clue to
> her being animagus, but I am sure Rowling would have shown her as a
> hawk in the books if she was (i.e McGonagall and her turning into a
> cat).  It would be interesting to know the dangers of
> transformation....or even the restricitons of it (like you said, 
maybe
> there is a time limit)?
> 
> pot_of_harry


I was reminded of the paper revealed at the second opening of the 
Room of Requirements on JKR's website:

"He looked rather like an old lion. There were streaks of grey in 
his mane of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows; he had keen yellowish 
eyes behind a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, 
loping grace even though he walked with a slight limp."

Wonder if there is a connection to Madame Hooch?

Julie