Hey you guys why do you think J.K. Rowling picked green for Harry's eyes? The avada cadavra curse is green and it causes death so why not brown or something other than green? Shouldn't Voldemort's eyes be green instead of Harry's?

Yes, but green can also be the color of good and red can be an evil color (at least in America it is). Take stop-lights for instance: Red means stop and green means go. Voldemort eyes are red and that is showing the evilness in him. Plus green is unique and it stands out, unlike blue and brown. Its something different from the rest.

I think she chose green because its a nice colour, and have anyone noticed that in the movies, Harry's eyes are blue! I mean, DISGRACEFUL.

I have a theory on this whole issue. I'm not going to go into it all because we'll be here for pages reading what I have to say =P

Anyway, you mentioned how the Avada Kedavra curse was the colour green. Well I think instead of changing his eyes not to be green because of this, I think this is exactly the reason why his eyes are green. Harry, at the end of book 7, is the master of death, the true master of death as he stands up to it, he intended to sacrifice himself to Voldemort in order to save everyone else, and his bravery in the face of death made him the master of it. So as Avada Kedavra is the killing curse, and then ultimatley would be the curse of death, Harry's eyes being green I think is used to say that his eyes are almost, in a way, the colour of death, hinting at his mastery of it.

There is a better argument for that, but as I said, we'd be here for ages if I full on went into it.

Another, not so symbolic reasoning too in my opinion. I don't like it as much because it's not as fancy or 'his green eyes connote such and such'. But another reasoning that I would quite as easily accept is that his eyes are his mothers, his mother had red hair, green goes well with red and would have looked exceptionally good on her =] And so he needed to have the same colour eyes as his mother for the reasons we all know, and green eyes would have just looked stunning with her hair.
Yeah I said it wasn't as good lol.

Kelly
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Yes I like PottyHead's idea because it has reason and it makes sence (the first one anyway) and I think it may be true. I would love to see someone else with an idea that showes as much promise as his.


Hey guys I just had an idea that could work!

I think that Harry's eyes may be green because of the transition of power that occurred between himself and Voldemort, Voldemort caused much death and this may have effected the color of Harry's eyes because... Well I don't really know any "scientific" explanation but this might be the reason.

I have several theories for that.

One is something I see with my own experiences. I have green eyes, and of the couple hundred kids I know in my school, there are only three others. There is a chance that Harry is green-eyed because that is a less common color.

I do not believe that Harry's eyes are green because of Voldemort's curse. Lily's eyes were green and that is what Harry inherited from her.

I like the idea that Harry's green eyes mean go, and Voldemort's red eyes mean stop. That is something I haven't heard before and is very creative.

I mainly believe that J.K. Rowling chose green because it is a rarer color in eyes.

EDIT:

I was thinking about the rareness thing, and I found this on Wikepedia-

"Only 1-2% of the world's population has green eyes and it is the least common eye color."