More Daniel

Just wanted this link up here to a interesting interview with Daniel Radcliffe.

Thanks to Nanna in comments.

Daniel Radcliffe fans? Info, please?

How tall is Daniel Radcliffe?

His entry in the IMDB says he’s 5′6″ but it’s two years old.

However, he clearly is not a tall guy at 18.

How tall is Rupert Grint?

How tall are James and Oliver Phelps? (Aha! Answers found here and here: 6′3″. And I love “hair brown (dyed in ginger for HP!”)

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I’m wondering how they made Harry seem the tallest on the front row there, unless he really is tallest. If so, it appears they did a remarkable job of hiring short kids with the exception of the Weasley twins, Neville, Dean, and who is on the far left, anyway?

Come on, fans. Fill me in! This is kind of driving me nuts for some reason.

And in other news — I already loved Evanna Lynch –

 

But what a great story, when a fan decides to audition and gets the role and nails it, and even greater when she comes up with stuff like this!

I ship all the normal ones - Ginny/Harry, Ron/Hermione, blah blah blah. But I do have a strange one, which is Luna/Dumbledore. I think they would be quite perfect. They’re both so detached, so otherworldly and so comfortable with themselves and they have this uncommon fearlessness of death. They also both have quirky hobbies and deep minds and I can see them getting along a storm. I don’t see this ship sailing, of course. It’s just one which I think could have had potential, aided along by a time-turner.

Now that is greatness.

Green Eyes

I’ll admit it. I have a weakness for green eyes, and if that’s vanity, so be it.

Growing up it never occurred to me that there was anything unusual about green eyes. My sister and I both have them, and my mother. I thought blue eyes were supposed to be the most beautiful, so my preference for green seemed more like defiance than vanity. I love brown eyes, too. Lovely root beer colored eyes, yum.

But I digress.

So I found this site, which you might enjoy if you, too, like green eyes.

The Green Eye Project

Because it’s a frames site, I can’t link to their “Sexiest Green Eyes of the 21st Century” contest. (Vanessa Williams won.)

I can only say that whenever I think of green eyes, I always think first of:

It was kind of hard to find a pic that showed her eyes. Most of them are in black-and-white, and many of the others don’t show her eye color. But Scarlett O’Hara and her green eyes — which of course means, Vivien Leigh and hers.

The American public was scandalized enough to have an English woman playing the part; they would have never stood for it if she hadn’t had green eyes.

Which brings me to another issue.

This is one of the first things I noticed, yet I’ve rarely if ever heard anyone complain:

Harry Potter does not have blue eyes, damn it! And the moment I saw a closeup in the very first movie, I gasped. NO! Where are the green eyes?

I mean, it’s bad enough that they do their best to make his scar not visible. And in the most recent film the Weasley hair was barely red at all — with the exception of Ron. I mean, really! The Weasley twins (the rare times you saw them) were almost blond, and Ginny’s hair was a dull shade almost brown!

But Harry Potter without green eyes?

We’re letting them get away with anything, aren’t we?

Where will it end?