Uncle Tom?

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 167010

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ceridwen" <ceridwennight at ...> 
wrote:
> Nothing about when the eye link comes into play.  For all we know, 
> the effect of Harry's eyes on Slughorn, which he used at least twice 
> in HBP, is the end of it.  I don't find it satisfying in light of the 
> hoopla everyone's made out of it, but it could be that this is the 
> only importance Lily's eyes in Harry's head might have, and the 
> hoopla was just building castles in the air.

va32h here:

Well I vote for hoopla (and not just because I was the one who 
suggested to Carol that the "Lily's eyes" thing was just about 
Slughorn. 

It may be unsatisfying, but I don't think it was JKR who made such a 
fuss over Lily's eyes. Fan sites proclaimed "We will find out something 
HUGE about Lily's eyes!!!" based on the same scant words you posted. 

Which they did with Mark Evans, and with "Florence". Massive theories 
have been based on the idea that Snape had a relationship with someone 
named Florence, simply because Bertha Jorkins talked about someone 
kissing someone named Florence, and this conversation took place after 
Dumbledore and Harry were having a completely different conversation 
about Snape. But there's no evidence that the two conversations had 
anything to do with each other. Bertha, the school gossip, could have 
been talking about anyone.

JKR promised to tell us more about Harry's family - which everyone was 
eagerly awaiting. And then she said in an interview - oh well, they're 
all dead from completely ordinary causes. So sure, that's "more" but 
not the more people were expecting. 

I just don't think anything in the series is nearly as complicated as 
we make it out to be. when I am caught up in elaborate theorizing 
(which I have fallen into myself from time to time, I admit), I remind 
myself that when JKR wanted to create a character that was secretly a 
werewolf, she named him Remus Lupin. And that JKR has said she thinks 
her clues that Aberforth Dumbledore is the barman at the Hog's Head are 
clever, when they actually anvil-level obvious. 

Which is not to disparage the books - I love them as much as anyone. I 
just think we tend to get carried away. 

va32h