Hogwarts Hunks

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No: HPFGUIDX 191549

Dear Liz

Umm... I was sort of joking with  the police description but OK.

The interesting thing here is your comments on what you see in your mind versus what you see on the screen, versus what Rowling wrote. Authors have to use descriptions to contrast in a sort of "shorthand" form what we are expected to make of them and their character. If they did not they would saddle us with long, long long, pages of narrative into the character. Of course- they can frequently make a character's outer appearance belie his inner nature (either way), perhaps the most famous examples being Shakespeare's Richard III who the author makes a deformed monster to show in exterior appearance a black soul within and on the contrawise, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, for a character that is a physical monster, but a kind soul within.


This is far more difficult to do with real live actors for we have had few since the Great Lon Chaney who can transform themselves to a role at will. The other problem with real live actors is that they hope to have a career before and after a film, no matter how successful that film might have been.

But thanks for the views.

Otto


ELF NOTE:  Please make sure to bring posts back around to the
topic of HP.  Thanks.