I don't have my copy of DH with me right now, but does it say what color Lily Potter's eyes are? Harry's daughter.

I can't remember whether it does.

Just make them green.

See, that's the thing. I want them to be brown, like Ginny's.

Petunia's getting Aunt Lily's eyes.

It's gonna play into Lily's feelings of having to fit into her grandmother's shoes.

Okay, I would guess that green and brown would likely give you brown because I think that green is actually brown with a modifier that makes it lighter. Like a dilution of brown.

but does it say what color Lily Potter's eyes are? Harry's daughter.

Aren't the younger son's eyes noted as being the only ones like Harry's/his mother's of ther the three children?

finally gets off arse, reaches over to bookshelf, checks.

Yep.

"Alone of Harry's three children, Albus had inherited Lily's eyes."

(...may be a paraphrase now, as I've had to retype it. Stoopid connection.)

Awesome.

rubs hands gleefully

I love watching an author in the throes of research. "Can I do this--yes! That fits! Ha!"

I'm rereading Sorcerer's Stone. After the much lighter American edit of the last few books, I'm noticing how many British words were changed in this one. The most obvious (other than Sorcerer's Stone rather than Philosopher's) is that the Weasley kids call their mother "Mom" rather than "Mum." I can understand (though not quite agree with) why they'd change stuff like jumper or lorrie, but why change that?

Heaven forfend that American children be exposed to the knowledge that there's more than one flavour of English!

It does my head in. It's so patronising to the readers, and so determinedly parochial.

Actually, I feel quite violently about all the vocab changes. Frankly, a glossary at the front or back of the book would have done the trick (while helping build their literacy skills through use of this handy device), and the American kids would have encountered exciting new words - all the other English speaking kids around the world manage to grasp the concepts of 'cookie', 'pants', 'truck' etc pretty damn quickly when they're enjoying American pop culture even without said glossary, and I don't think they're smarter than the US kids.

And, hey, they could probably even have coped with learning that the name for the magical alchemist's stone that turned dross into gold was 'The Philosopher's Stone' without it scarring their little minds. (I doubt the word philosopher crops up in UK classrooms or playgrounds any more frequently than it does in the US - and yet somehow the kids manage to cope with the word and add it to their vocabularies. Miraculous.)

bangs head on desk