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From: Sharon L. Norris <shazzamattazz>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:49:44 +1000
Greetings from a lurker?
As the Potter books are written predominantly from Harry?s point of view, and he?s not too interested in anyone but Cho Chang (I haven?t read Book V yet), the readers don?t really get any sense of what Hermione looks like until Harry tells us via words or his thoughts.
Harry and Ron get a shock in The Goblet of Fire when Hermione accompanies Viktor Krum to The Yule Ball. Harry doesn?t recognise her at first. Here is the relevant passage from the book:
?[Harry?s] eyes fell instead on the girl next to Krum. His jaw dropped. It was Hermione. But she didn?t look like Hermione at all. She had done something with her hair; it was no longer bushy, but sleek and shiny, and twisted up into an elegant knot at the back of her head. She was wearing robes made of a floaty, periwinkle-blue material, and she was holding herself differently, somehow ? or maybe it was merely the absence of the twenty or so books she usually had slung over her back. She was also smiling ? rather nervously, it was true ? but the reduction in the size of her front teeth was more noticeable than ever. Harry couldn?t understand how he hadn?t spotted it before.?
(JK Rowling, The Goblet of Fire, p. 360)
I can just imagine Harry and Ron being suitably gobsmacked by the revelation that their long-time friend is quite a nice looking girl.
Yes, Emma Watson is a lovely girl but we can?t hold that against her! She?s wonderful as Hermione.
As for the casting of Harry, I really like Daniel Radcliffe. You have to remember, he?s playing the ?straight guy? in a wizard world full of eccentrics so of course, he?s not going to be as funny as Ron or as malevolent as Malfoy, for example. I had heard years ago that Haley Joel Osment was Stephen Spielberg?s choice for Harry when he was initially involved as director (replaced by Chris Columbus), and I?m sorry, but HJO wouldn?t have been the right choice at all, even if he could nail a reasonable English accent for the film. Finding a replacement for Daniel would be really hard, I think, given what fans expect of the movies now. I hope he stays on.
Sharon Norris Brisbane, Australia
Received on Wed 16 Jul 2003 05:49:44 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:49:44 +1000
Greetings from a lurker?
As the Potter books are written predominantly from Harry?s point of view, and he?s not too interested in anyone but Cho Chang (I haven?t read Book V yet), the readers don?t really get any sense of what Hermione looks like until Harry tells us via words or his thoughts.
Harry and Ron get a shock in The Goblet of Fire when Hermione accompanies Viktor Krum to The Yule Ball. Harry doesn?t recognise her at first. Here is the relevant passage from the book:
?[Harry?s] eyes fell instead on the girl next to Krum. His jaw dropped. It was Hermione. But she didn?t look like Hermione at all. She had done something with her hair; it was no longer bushy, but sleek and shiny, and twisted up into an elegant knot at the back of her head. She was wearing robes made of a floaty, periwinkle-blue material, and she was holding herself differently, somehow ? or maybe it was merely the absence of the twenty or so books she usually had slung over her back. She was also smiling ? rather nervously, it was true ? but the reduction in the size of her front teeth was more noticeable than ever. Harry couldn?t understand how he hadn?t spotted it before.?
(JK Rowling, The Goblet of Fire, p. 360)
I can just imagine Harry and Ron being suitably gobsmacked by the revelation that their long-time friend is quite a nice looking girl.
Yes, Emma Watson is a lovely girl but we can?t hold that against her! She?s wonderful as Hermione.
As for the casting of Harry, I really like Daniel Radcliffe. You have to remember, he?s playing the ?straight guy? in a wizard world full of eccentrics so of course, he?s not going to be as funny as Ron or as malevolent as Malfoy, for example. I had heard years ago that Haley Joel Osment was Stephen Spielberg?s choice for Harry when he was initially involved as director (replaced by Chris Columbus), and I?m sorry, but HJO wouldn?t have been the right choice at all, even if he could nail a reasonable English accent for the film. Finding a replacement for Daniel would be really hard, I think, given what fans expect of the movies now. I hope he stays on.
Sharon Norris Brisbane, Australia
Received on Wed 16 Jul 2003 05:49:44 AM CDT
