[ SECRET POST #3778 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3778 ⌋

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Comments

[raspberryrain]

You're a bit smug, anon. She forgot one line, which was more about expression than ethnicity, in seven books. Even Homer nodded.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

it's a ridiculous approach

[ninety6tears]

Right, do people honestly think she remembers every descriptor she's ever written? Or that she is somehow too stupid to expect she'd get caught in a deliberate lie?

[(Anonymous)]

People who devote 100s of thousands of words to world building know what their characters look like. Rowling saying otherwise is disingenuous.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, lots of authors say they have clear mental images of their own characters in their heads but that those images are only their own and readers should view the characters in their own way.

[raspberryrain]

Oh, I think she imagined Hermione as a white-skinned, curly-haired girl. As she gave Harry green eyes. And then Dan Radcliffe couldn't tolerate green contacts. And then Emma Watson straightened her hair. And the characters grew beyond her initial sketches. As a writer, you can complain about it, or you can be gracious, as she has.

But I also think that Hermione's skin colour is nigh-irrelevant to Hermione's character arc in the books.

I know I have created characters where I don't really know what their actual ethnic background is supposed to be, and I'm a visual artist.

[(Anonymous)]

Given that Harry's green eyes are repeatedly described in the book as such, you'd think people would be more up at arms about that.

[(Anonymous)]

the one thing that always bothered me was movie!harry's goddamn scar not being centered

[alexi_lupin]

His scar isn't described as centred and I think I read somewhere that Chris Columbus asked JKR to draw in Harry's scar on a drawing of his face.

[(Anonymous)]

My favorite is when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle forgot where Dr. Watson had been wounded from one story to the next. Second favorite is when Mrs. Watson calls her husband "James" instead of "John." Oops. All of that happened early in Doyle's Holmes writing career, too. It would be less funny if he was only forgetting these things towards the end, years later.

[(Anonymous)]

It would make more sense for there to be mistakes at the end since by then he'd pretty much run out of fucks to give about the Holmes universe. What we have now can be chalked up to early installment weirdness.

Although isn't John/ James pretty much interchangeable in England?

[(Anonymous)]

Although isn't John/ James pretty much interchangeable in England?

Is it? I had no idea. I've heard that (possible) mistake mentioned a lot, but I don't know the nationalities of all the people mentioning it.

[raspberryrain]

They're two different names. That's like saying Matthew and Michael are interchangeable.

[(Anonymous)]

Although isn't John/ James pretty much interchangeable in England?

No. John/Jack/Jock or James/Jim/Jimmy. Two separate names.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not British, but I've never heard those names used interchangeably. Wikipedia says both names are from Hebrew, ultimately, but derive from different names/words. It's a weird mistake on Doyle's part.