Harry's looks (Was: Dark Book - Blood and Cruelty/ Draco)

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 177270

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:


> > But Harry *isn't* handsome.

> Betsy Hp:

> Then why are all those girls falling all over him in HBP?  Why does
> Cho fancy him?  Why does Hermione take the time to explain to Harry 
> that he is actually attractive to the opposite sex?


It's very interesting that us readers imagine the same character so 
differently! I really think there is no point in arguing here, 
because, if you had a certain image in your head for a few years, no 
argument will change it, I guess :-). I personally never in my life 
imagined Harry as handsome. I took his first description very 
seriously, and this is how I see Harry even now, after the last book 
(only taller, of course). I see him as a very ordinary-looking boy 
with very beautiful eyes.

If Harry was handsome, someone would have mentioned it, at least 
once, but no one ever does. When he goes on his date with Cho, Pansy 
Parkinson teases them, saying: "Urgh, Chang, I don't think much of 
your taste .... At least Diggory was good-looking!" Even Hermione, 
when she explains to Harry in HBP why he suddenly became "fanciable", 
leaves his looks out of it. She only mentions that he's grown a lot. 
BTW, although Harry has grown, he didn't manage to become tall, 
because in DH he is still shorter than Draco and even shorter than 
Bellatrix (I mean Hermione!Bellatrix). 

Again, it's useless to argue here, IMO. We all have the images of all 
the characters in our heads, and we all will stick with those images, 
whatever someone else might say. In my head Harry is not handsome, 
and I'm glad that he isn't.


zanooda, who always believed that Daniel Radcliffe(sp?) was too good-
looking to play Harry ...