Rumpling hair despair

finwitch finwitch at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 17 09:50:39 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 130871

Eileen Nicholson wrote:
> > I just wondered why, if Harry's hair 'simply grew that way, all 
over 
> the  
> > place' (UK Paperback PS p.21) did James need to be 'messing up 
your 
> hair because  
> > you think it looks cool to look like you've just got off your 
> broomstick' ,  
> > as Lily put it (OotP  p.714) ? 

Finwitch:

I think that Lily was in error, and James *didn't* mess up his hair 
because he thought he looked cool that way. No - it might be that 
James pretended to do so OR was actually trying to make his hair lie 
flat in vain like Harry does and Lily erred in interpreting the 
gesture. I can imagine James asking Lily to fix his hair after that 
and when she objects he says: "I thought you didn't like my hair this 
way. Why don't you do something about it, then?" And if, as I imagine 
the Potter hair to be, James' hair is back the way it was within few 
hours, well... it's a start.

Finwitch






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