Rumpling hair despair
finwitch
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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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