Lily's physical description, and a bit more apparently :-)

[Peggy]

No: HPFGUIDX 125771


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "beth6581" <beth6581 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> I may have missed this, either in the book or in discussion here, 
but 
> I found the physical description of Lily in Snape's Worst Memory 
(in 
> OOTP) a little odd -- even though it was a very brief description 
of 
> her, the fact that JKR gave her "thick, dark red hair that fell to 
> her shoulders" leaves me with more of a vision of Ginny Weasely 
than 
> anyone else.  Especially odd because we know that Aunt Petunia is a 
> blonde.  
> 
Peg:

Just to get my oar in:  Nothing odd at all about a blond and a 
redhead in the same family.  I've got hair as red as the actor who 
plays Ron in the Medium-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named.  My younger sister 
has hair a couple of shades lighter, and my "little" brother (size of 
a fire truck) is platinum blonde (think Draco).  Our parents are both 
redheads.  Ah, the wonder of genetics . . .

I'm disinclined to believe that Lilly, the Weasleys, and Dumbledore 
are all related.  It *is* possible. But, I've been asked so often if 
I'm related to people I've never heard of, that I think it's just 
another, er, red herring.

I suspect that the really important part of Lilly's appearance is her 
eye color, which Harry has so clearly inherited.  Other posters have 
suggested that Harry has inherited much more than Lilly's eye color 
from her, and others that we need to know his eye color in order to 
know that it's Harry we're seeing, and not someone else.  At this 
point in the narrative, I'd have to toss a coin.

Peg