[Insert comment about how long your posts are here...]jollityfarmMarch 10 2005, 23:52:49 UTC
More of the interesting colour juxtaposition
Never mind that, I'm still pondering how natural it sounds for Harry to think of his own eyes as "vivid" green, rather than just green. For a start, we all know what colour Harry's eyes are because it is frequently mentioned (every little sprinkling of words that could easily have been cut out...it all adds up), but who thinks of their own eyes as "vivid"? I mean, maybe I jus jellus because my eyes are a kind of murky blue, but I can't help getting shades of "he might have been losing his boyish good looks".
No shades of grey, you're inherently Evil (‘tainted’) and need to be harmed, or Good (‘innocent’) and need to be protected/saved, even from yourself.
I believe we just had this discussion on my livejournal :/ I do hope that certain people are not about to come over and define evil for us again
That would be such a wicked plotline. Why even suggest it, JKR?Harry's wangst (no matter which Harry ship you like, the only true Harry OTP is Harry/Wangst) fairly depends on being shunned, or
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I know, I know, I'm sorry. Just trying to recreate the feeling of 'OMG WHEN WILL THIS *END*?!!!' ;)merrymelodyMarch 11 2005, 09:26:46 UTC
For a start, we all know what colour Harry's eyes are because it is frequently mentioned, but who thinks of their own eyes as "vivid"?
Oh, I'm sure they're cat-shaped and emerald, too. With sparkly stars in the middle, like Barbie. I'm imagining them looking like the horribly photoshopped ones they have on HP merchandise, the kind no-one really has. Because those are unusual and special. Like Harry. And Lily. Their eye colour indicates their moral character and importance.
no matter which Harry ship you like, the only true Harry OTP is Harry/Wangst
I'm also fond of Harry/Horrible Grisly Death.
Mercifully, nobody in canon can learn that skill.
I like how, post OotP, there's all these thoughts about how it's been 'heavily hinted' that Harry could master this skill (on top of being the Heir of Gryffindor/Quidditch captain/DADA professor too, I hope!) since: A) his hair grows quickly B) he thinks it sounds interesting. Gosh, that describes me, OMG, I'm a Metawhatsit!
HERMIONE: Wait...what's that folorn and pathetic object in the
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Re: I know, I know, I'm sorry. Just trying to recreate the feeling of 'OMG WHEN WILL THIS *END*?!!!'jollityfarmMarch 11 2005, 16:55:39 UTC
Harry's eyes are probably "almond-shaped", as his mother's were. Which is to say, eye-shaped - but "almond" is a pretty word, I suppose. Brazil-nut shaped might have been just as accurate, but wouldn't have been quite the same.
I'm also fond of Harry/Horrible Grisly Death.
Ah, but Harry/Wangst is canon :)
Regarding Harry as Metamorphmagus, I thought it was made quite plain that Harry's hair thing at the beginning of PS was to do with his untapped magic potential, much as Neville's window-bounce was. But Why not give him a speshul power on top of him being just generally speshul anyway?
Re: I know, I know, I'm sorry. Just trying to recreate the feeling of 'OMG WHEN WILL THIS *END*?!!!'sistermagpieMarch 11 2005, 16:59:22 UTC
Is that why people think Harry's one of those? I remember once reading a remark where somebody said canon "heavily hinted" that Harry was one and I thought, wtf? Where has that ever been hinted? If it's his hair-growing then no, I don't think that counts.
Re: [Insert comment about how long your posts are here...]sistermagpieMarch 11 2005, 16:20:42 UTC
Never mind that, I'm still pondering how natural it sounds for Harry to think of his own eyes as "vivid" green
LOL! I thought the same thing. Vivid green? There's a little Lockhart in there, apparently.
If a group of tiresome adolescents (including the supposedly not-up-to-much Peter Pettigrew) could master the art before their fifth year, I have trouble believing that it's really much of a skill at all.I guess with animagi, as with any skill, if a good guy does it it was really hard. If somebody else does it it must be because they had the help of a good guy. Look at how jazzed everybody is that 15-year-old Harry can do a Patronus, and could do one at 13, when Seamus is coming along fine at his very first DA meeting and Cho can produce one after crying all year. It's a charm you produce by drawing on a happy memory--you'd think Lavender could produce one
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Re: [Insert comment about how long your posts are here...]sistermagpieMarch 12 2005, 00:06:13 UTC
Probably this is because Neville's grief for the parents he never knew is real and true while Cho's for her ex-boyfriend she can put and off like a shirt.
Re: [Insert comment about how long your posts are here...]merrymelodyMarch 12 2005, 12:41:54 UTC
Perhaps because Cho's grief is for a boyfriend, whereas Neville's (and Harry's) is for an appropriate person in which to grieve over - ie. a family member. (I think even FanFavourite Harry would have received some criticism for being repulsed by a 'human hosepipe' who instead had lost her best friend/parent. Presumably because that's much more serious, whereas losing someone you dated is something that would only happen to a slut, anyway.)
Re: [Insert comment about how long your posts are here...]sistermagpieMarch 11 2005, 16:22:27 UTC
p.s. And also, if Malfoy turns into a ferret he can then be fed to Buckbeak and this will be just so funny and exactly what he deserves for making Buckbeak slash him that time.
Never mind that, I'm still pondering how natural it sounds for Harry to think of his own eyes as "vivid" green, rather than just green. For a start, we all know what colour Harry's eyes are because it is frequently mentioned (every little sprinkling of words that could easily have been cut out...it all adds up), but who thinks of their own eyes as "vivid"? I mean, maybe I jus jellus because my eyes are a kind of murky blue, but I can't help getting shades of "he might have been losing his boyish good looks".
No shades of grey, you're inherently Evil (‘tainted’) and need to be harmed, or Good (‘innocent’) and need to be protected/saved, even from yourself.
I believe we just had this discussion on my livejournal :/ I do hope that certain people are not about to come over and define evil for us again
That would be such a wicked plotline. Why even suggest it, JKR?Harry's wangst (no matter which Harry ship you like, the only true Harry OTP is Harry/Wangst) fairly depends on being shunned, or ( ... )
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Oh, I'm sure they're cat-shaped and emerald, too. With sparkly stars in the middle, like Barbie.
I'm imagining them looking like the horribly photoshopped ones they have on HP merchandise, the kind no-one really has. Because those are unusual and special. Like Harry. And Lily. Their eye colour indicates their moral character and importance.
no matter which Harry ship you like, the only true Harry OTP is Harry/Wangst
I'm also fond of Harry/Horrible Grisly Death.
Mercifully, nobody in canon can learn that skill.
I like how, post OotP, there's all these thoughts about how it's been 'heavily hinted' that Harry could master this skill (on top of being the Heir of Gryffindor/Quidditch captain/DADA professor too, I hope!) since:
A) his hair grows quickly
B) he thinks it sounds interesting.
Gosh, that describes me, OMG, I'm a Metawhatsit!
HERMIONE: Wait...what's that folorn and pathetic object in the ( ... )
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I'm also fond of Harry/Horrible Grisly Death.
Ah, but Harry/Wangst is canon :)
Regarding Harry as Metamorphmagus, I thought it was made quite plain that Harry's hair thing at the beginning of PS was to do with his untapped magic potential, much as Neville's window-bounce was. But Why not give him a speshul power on top of him being just generally speshul anyway?
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LOL! I thought the same thing. Vivid green? There's a little Lockhart in there, apparently.
If a group of tiresome adolescents (including the supposedly not-up-to-much Peter Pettigrew) could master the art before their fifth year, I have trouble believing that it's really much of a skill at all.I guess with animagi, as with any skill, if a good guy does it it was really hard. If somebody else does it it must be because they had the help of a good guy. Look at how jazzed everybody is that 15-year-old Harry can do a Patronus, and could do one at 13, when Seamus is coming along fine at his very first DA meeting and Cho can produce one after crying all year. It's a charm you produce by drawing on a happy memory--you'd think Lavender could produce one ( ... )
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But Neville can't. Poor, sad, sad Neville with his poor, sad, sad parents. Feel sorry for him yet?
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