I believe we also know she has brown eyes, which also fits. She and Ginny both have brown eyes, as I remember, and one of them - Ginny? - is described as having chocolate brown eyes (which seems like an odd description of eye color, but oh well).
Maybe the actor for Harry can wear contacts - or maybe most people won't be sitting close enough to tell?
I have to say, I didn't have a very set image of Hermione from the books. (I have such terrible images of characters in my mind). But this girl is gorgeous! It's so sad that defaulting to 'white' is such a part of society.
Yes, you're exactly right. There is no default 'this is what they look like' for most of the characters in the books, so there are a lot of wholly valid choices, all of which work.
Gorgeous and clever will work in dozens of ways for Hermione. I agree with you, this actress hits the essential notes!
I know! Right? I mean, the reason we love books is that the worlds are usually so open within them and we can all inject little bits of ourselves or those we find attractive. And since all three actors are good looking and have clever expressions that the Trio should have, it's all going to be good!
Unrelated aside: a story about Sepp Blatter is on my local TV news. They are scoring each of his appearances wiht Darth Vader's Imperial Death March. This amuses me unreasonably.
Just out of curiosity, how many people do you know of with truly green eyes? I can only name two: my cousins TJ and Boo Boo. They're brother and sister; he's dark, she's fair.
I think about it at times, because so many romance novels have one character or another with green, gray ("silver", la!) or gold/amber eyes. I've known two people in my life with gray eyes, and only one with amber. All the rest of us schmucks have blue or brown.
I am also cursed with "mouse brown" hair. How many romance novel heroines have "mouse brown" hair, I ask you?! I only ever read about one, once upon a time, and part of her appeal (to the dashing hero), was that she was plain. Le sigh.
Eyes are often a color that's hard to pin down in one word. My eyes are blue-gray-green (with an amber tinge around the pupils). I call them green because I can't claim they're blue, and there's too much color for gray. I agree that pure clear green or gray eyes are unusual.
There are several Georgette Heyer heroines with light brown hair (Frederica, in the book of that name, and Sarah Thane, in The Talisman Ring) or mouse brown hair (Jenny, in A Civil Contract, and Miss Morville, in The Quiet Gentleman; and I can't find my copy of Sprig Muslin, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lady Hester Theale also had light brown or mouse brown hair). It's true that they are initially overshadowed by showier (often younger) beauties, or even considered plain, but they are appreciated in the end. And they are great heroines!
I MUST read Georgette Heyer one day. I've tried a few times but always get distracted and accidentally reread Austen instead. But now you make me think on it, I'm pretty sure that Anne Elliot, the greatest-ever romantic heroine, has mousy brown hair :-)
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Maybe the actor for Harry can wear contacts - or maybe most people won't be sitting close enough to tell?
I like Ron's face.
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Gorgeous and clever will work in dozens of ways for Hermione. I agree with you, this actress hits the essential notes!
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What did i miss!
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Unrelated aside: a story about Sepp Blatter is on my local TV news. They are scoring each of his appearances wiht Darth Vader's Imperial Death March. This amuses me unreasonably.
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I think about it at times, because so many romance novels have one character or another with green, gray ("silver", la!) or gold/amber eyes. I've known two people in my life with gray eyes, and only one with amber. All the rest of us schmucks have blue or brown.
I am also cursed with "mouse brown" hair. How many romance novel heroines have "mouse brown" hair, I ask you?! I only ever read about one, once upon a time, and part of her appeal (to the dashing hero), was that she was plain. Le sigh.
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There are several Georgette Heyer heroines with light brown hair (Frederica, in the book of that name, and Sarah Thane, in The Talisman Ring) or mouse brown hair (Jenny, in A Civil Contract, and Miss Morville, in The Quiet Gentleman; and I can't find my copy of Sprig Muslin, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lady Hester Theale also had light brown or mouse brown hair). It's true that they are initially overshadowed by showier (often younger) beauties, or even considered plain, but they are appreciated in the end. And they are great heroines!
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I think Jane Austen is generally pretty vague about what people look like - although we all know that Elizabeth has fine eyes!
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