Snape's height

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 171815

Carol:
> I realize that this topic is less than earth-shaking

Sydney:
What could possibly be more important??!

Carol:
> Several posters have wondered
> whether Snape is actually short. I would say no, simply because JKR
> never actually applies that adjective to him.

Sydney:
I should clarify that by 'short', I'm thinking 'on the shorter side of
avarage', not 'Danny DeVito'.  Obviously he's not conspicuously short,
or, as you say, Rowling would have mentioned it.  So, 5'7-8ish?  (Al
Pacino is 5'7). I don't know why I think this (I though of him as
shortish before it came up in GoF), except to say that he has a
shorter man's vibe;  that's all I can think of!  

Carol:
Wormtail is always described as "short" (slightly
> taller than thirteen-year-old Harry and fourteen-year-old Hermione but
> evidently shorter than fourteen-year-old Ron in PoA, so perhaps 5'5"
> or 5'6"?????).

Sydney:

The Power of Google tells me the avarage 13-year-old boy's height is
5'1, and given Rowling's penchant for extremes I'd say if she
describes someone as 'short' they're *really* short, so 5'3ish for
Peter I'd say.

Carol:
>I conclude that he's of average height for
> a thirty-something man, rather thin but evidently in good physical
> condition 

Sydney:

Jogging!Snape!!  He's canon in the movie, LOL, the way he was bookin'
down those stairs.  Mind you, the bigness, the age and the height are
the main reasons I can't bear Rickman's Snape, despite the fact that,
well, it's Alan Rickman.

> Carol, realizing that Snape's allegiances are much more crucial than
> his height but nevertheless determined to visualize him as about 5'10"
> (her own height) until informed otherwise

Sydney, assuring Carol that EVERYTHING about Snape is of vital
importance, and who for some reason pictures Snape as being slightly
over her own height of 5'5... maybe we can compromise on 5'9.5, the
height of the avarage British male.