Well guys, we all learned to know and love Daniel Radcliffe in the HP movie series, right?

But I'm sure you've all noticed something a little disturbing (well, at least disturbing for me, any way... ) in the movies, when it comes to keep the plot as faithful to the book as possible, in the small details...

Let's cut to the chase: the producers, or whoever is in charge of the editing of the movie, didn't pay too much attention to Dan's eyes in the movies- which are b-l-u-e.

And that's wrong... really wrong... because J.K.R said that the green color of Harry's eyes (which are similar to his mothers, Lilly...) is an important fact in the plot, and will effect someone.... at least I think so...

So what's going to happen next in movies?
Are they going to change that awful mistake?
Will viewers of the movies, who did not read the books,
would understand what's up with the plot?
And will I ever stop asking these annoying questions?!?!

Waiting for your replies, The Hogwarts Witch Project (I'm a girl... by the way... if anyone didn't notice that so far... )

No, it's not a mistake...

Apparently Dan is allergic to contact lenses and so couldn't wear them to make his eyes green, so they left him with his own blue eyes...

They did toy with the idea of SFX, but decided it wasn't worth it in the end...

Sorry, I know it's mundane, but that's really the truth of the matter...no great conspiracy or huge mistakes or anything like that.

There are a couple of threads discussing mistakes in the movies though...GoF, General Mistakes in all movies and PoA... But I won't close this because it's specifically about Dan's eyes and I don't think there's another one exclusively about that...although it has been mentioned in another thread somewhere....mmm....

Thanks for the answer, Dana_Scully!

But I have to say... I've never thought there's a "great conspiracy"...

I could figuer it out on my own that there's a logical explantion for that, I just thought it would be a nice topic to talk about... that's all...

Oh, I was searching for the post as soon as I saw the title but you beat me to it in replying, Louise!

Well, we have mentioned about this before, true, and it took quite some time for me to locate that post back! But I've found it at last!

Click here

Although, like Louise said, there's no specific thread for this and the one it was posted before was in a thread on confusing/question on PoA.

Anyway, I hope that'll help!

It's probably true that it is plot important that Harry have the same eyes as his mother Lily, so I guess, when it comes to light in movie 6 or 7, the film makers will probably make sure Harry's mum has blue eyes like Dans?

Thanks for the link, zyra123!

razzberry2- I don't know, and I truly hope that n-o-t-!

That's kind of against the plot, it doesn't belong in the plot...

I don't think it's such a good idea to do that...

And now that I'm rethinking the issue through- they won't do it, because JKR won't let them- it is simply not in the book, it's incorrect, so she won't let them ruin the movie (and the books) plot, just because Dan couldn't wear those eyes contact lenses...

It'll be best if they don't have a close up of Harry's eyes.. Of course, they'll be blue, but they do look a little green. So, his eyes in the movies, can be mentioned that they're green. Didn't Professor Lupin say that Harry had green eyes like his mother in the third movie? I know he said his eyes were like his mother's but I don't know about the color.
Anyway, I don't think J.K. will let them change Harry's mum's eye color, either.

Hmm... One thing we have to keep in mind is that Jk herself has said how thrilled she was/is with Dan Radcliffe as Harry, so I dont think it could be that much of a big deal that he has blue eyes instead of green.

You say that it's the colour green that is plot important. I suggest what might be most important about Harrys and Lilys eyes is that they are the same, not necessarily that they are green.

I just cant see how they will get around the eye colour any other way, and as we know Jk makes sure they include all plot important things in the films in the end.

Look at it this way, Dudleys hair in the book is blonde and so is Petunias, but they both have dark hair in the films. There are all sorts of little discrepancies like that between the books and the movies, so I really dont think it will matter in the end.

Oh well, that's how I see it anyway...

Yes, I'm going to agree with razzberry here.

I can't think of any way that the actual color of Harry's eyes is important; throughout the books, we've not heard of how green his eyes are, but how much like Lily they are. Seeing as that seems to be the connection, and they already changed Harry's eyes from green to blue, it makes sense that they would just change Lily's eyes to blue as well, so that they'd be the same for whatever function the eye's have coming up.

I really hope we get to know why that's important in HBP...

I think that everyone is right in thinking that they will just change his mom's eyes blue because if you think about it i don't think anyone ever says "you look like your father but you have green eyes like your mother's..." they just say "you have your mother's eyes..."

J.K.R said"you look like your father but you have green eyes like your mother's"But in films
"you look like your father but your eyes like your mother's"

Daniel's eyes very beautiful.And if this is a mistake,Emma's hair is a mistake,too.Cause her hair yellow.But it must bu brown

Oh, so that's why., i figured it must be a reason why dan never wore contacts since his green eyes were drummed in in the book.

oh my god...the creepiest thing just happened, and the song behind blue eyes just came on in my iTunes and it's on random.....

Any way creepiness aside...

I don't think the color is ever mentioned as being important, just the fact that he has his mother eyes.

It's a shame...cos blue eyes are boring and common, i would love to have green eyes.

Pretty much everyone i know has blue eyes...infact i know a whole quantity of two people who have brown eyes! and one with green, and one with grey.

Ok, now I've read in one encyclopedia yesterday that a large number of people actually change their eye colour few times in their lives. It also states "It's commonly known that pale skinned people very often have blue or green eyes, and those with dark hair - dark eye colour. But also, exceptions can be found anywhere - people with brown, blonde or black hair having most unusual eye colours and sometimes very rare - emerald green or sapphire blue......"
Now what is this have to do with Dan or Rupert?
I've been watching fresh pictures today and for the first time I realized that Dan has very intense blue and Rupert unusal green eyes.
Ron has deep blue and Harry has emerald green eyes - stated by Rowling herself.
Alright, I'm feeling a little bit stupid right now for writing this useless fact - but it's true isn't it? It would be better if they had switched eye colour. It's not their fault the're growing up of course, it's the filmmakers falut. And I won't even start rambling about Harry's eyes and how they could easly use computer technology to change them in green on screen.
And did you also notice that Ron's eyes were really blue in first two movies and now they turned into green? Yep, that happened to me also.
Well I'm hoping you found that useless fact from my encyclopedia interesting tough
(Sorry for grammar errors! )

jesus christ! i had no idea that eye colors change over the course of years. i guess it`s because i`m asian.. but yeah.

i think dan would be a lot more handsome with brown or hazel eyes. like JAMES! ::sigh::

My eye color actually is constantly changing.
I know it sounds weird, but depending on the color of my clothing and my mood at a particular time, my eyes adapt to a particular color. For example, if I am wearing a light blue shirt, my eyes change to blue. If I change into a grey shirt, my eyes change to grey. It works similarly with my mood. If I am wearing a blue shirt, my eyes will be blue, but If I get mad or angry, the shade of blue turns darker. The opposite happens when I am happy or ina good mood -- the shade turns lighter.

If you look closely at my eyes, you will see that there are actually many different speckles of colors in it, and it looks like there is some sort of flower patter originating from the center of my eye... cool, huh .

Just last week, my friend saw me and said "WHOA! One of your eyes are green and one is blue!" haha...

When I was born, however, my eyes were bright, solid blue (and really, really big well, they still are)...but they have changed over the years! So basically, phoenix lament, eye colors do change...some more than others



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Uhhhhh... Do you really think that it is so important.
As for me, I don't mind watching Dan with his blue eyes.

The movie is not the book, from this moment Blue eyes will be highly important as a plot detail

I noticed that and was wondering why he doesn't wear those colour contact-lenses or change them when they edit the film like they did in PS/SS. It doesn't bother me as much but when people say hes got lily's eyes but that doesn't make sense any more has they are completely different. I just think 'well, no actually.....he hasn't!'

Plus his hair was showing off to be brown instead of the incredable jet black hair that we all love as well

Yeah i noticed it to, in the film they wanna show Harry green eyes but they show it blue.I think our one friend's opinion is right that Dan has allergic to contact lenses and thats why they show his original eyes color.

It's doesn't matter I think the producers can find their way
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Well, I don't mind his eyes blue as long he has done his acting well. It doesn't bothers me much because there aren't really any close-ups and if there are, they can always make his eyes green with the computer, ain't it? And about his hair colour, I think he should change it back into black-- the movie is supposed to be loyal to the book.

And Felix_felicis_444, YOUR EYES CHANGE ACCORDING TO THE SHIRT YOU'RE WEARING??????!!!!!!!!OMG that's so cool! -sighs- I wish i were Europeans or Americans like you guys. Asians miss out all the fun.

I mind when theres a close up. Then I start yelling at the screen, the filmmakers, Dan, the DVD, The Prime minister... but I'm like that whenever they make any change from the book, whatever book.
I still think that they ought to computer graphic it.

i wish he had green eyes like the book. but then again i love blue eyes so it's okay.

I think Dan's eyes are kinda like my eyes. They change between blue and green. In most parts of the movies they look green so it doesn't bother me much. And they're not that blue. No one but major HP fans are going to notice. But we can just deal with it. The only place where Dan's eyes looked really blue to me is in GOF posters. They are still dreamy either way.

I did notice (because it is hard not to) that Dan has rather blue like eyes.
They are most definitely not the bright green lively eyes described in the books.
I mean, how hard is it to get this boy some bright green contacts?

I suppose they could've put him in contacts, but then again - maybe at his age they're not allowed to do that. Even though Dan has blue eyes I really don't think it matters. I'm certain if it was important then Jk would have told them so. There's no doubt in my mind when I watch the films that he's Harry Potter. I have a slightly different Harry in my head when I read the books however. He's got the same voice as Dan - funny enough , and some of the same features, though he has got green eyes. His hair is like Dan had in POA and he's a bit taller, my book Harry is a conglomeration of Dan and Jk's description. He's pretty cool really LOL.

Has anyone noticed that in the films, Harry's eyes are blue, but in the books he has green eyes.

Normally this would be an unimportant detail and i wouldn't think twice about it. But in all the books, we are constantly reminded that Harry has his mother's green eyes (at least 10 times) - so it must be crucial. Many people think that the colour of Harry's eyes will be significant to the series' conclusion.

I was just wonderng what the directors will do if this is the case. Pretend Lily's eyes were blue? forget about it? make Dan Radcliffe wear contacts?

What do you think?

I think this dilema could be easily solved if Daniel would wear contacts for the films.Most viewers wouldn't notice the difference because some don't read the books so they would just be confused or something.

I would STILL like his eyes either way,even though if you asked me which i preferred it would be green!!!

Hi Phoebe!!!I most definetely agree with you.I know I mispelled it.I did it purposely.*sigh*GOSH!!

When Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone movie first came out there was a magazine article on this and I think it said that the director didn't think that the color of his eyes was that important and he didn't want to make Dan wear contacts over such a small detail. I guess he was wrong and it will be kind of a big deal, but they could make him wear colored contacts now, that would solve the problem. Once again, a few ppl might be a bit confused, but he at least needs them when they shoot the final movie, unless they leave that part out. I guess we'll see when we find out how significant his eyes are.

Funny, I was just thinking about this when I watched the Prisoner of Azkaban.. I see his eyes are blue but on the rare occasion I saw his eyes were green? I said "what the heck? to myself and showed my cousin, hes like "yah, weird".. People notice big different Chris Columbus and Alfonso Curaun [Cant spell it].

I noticed that in the first film that his eyes were blue and in the books they should be green.I dont think it is that big a deal though.If he wore contacts that would be cool but, i dont think it matters that much to me in my opinion

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If this becomes an issue, it would probably be safer to just make Lily's eyes Blue. To have Dan put in contacts 5 movies into the series would be just weird. Since they never announced Harry and Lily had matching bright green eyes, they can easily turn it to matching bright blue eyes. All of the avid book fans would know of course, but as a book fan myself, I have come to realize you have to sacrifice sometimes.

I don't think they will become a problem, but you know they could just change them doing computer animation or computer programming or however they do it with computerised equipment. It might irritate Dan's eyes if he wore contacts all the way through the movie.

I think they should make it that the actress who plays Lily has sort of blue-ish green eyes because then they could still say they were green and could just changed the colour of Harry's eyes a tiny bit (make them a bit greener, using contacts)...nobody would really notice.

I noticed this problem right when the first movie was released. Its a very big characteristic about Harry. Almost as big as him being a male. Well, not that big. But that was the only visible characteristic he took on from his mother and the movie has crushed it to nothing! Also, if anyone noticed the cover of the Chamber of Secrets movie, Harry has extroardinary green eyes. Oh wait, that was obviosly just an added effect because throughout the entire movie his eyes still seemed blue to me. I think Harry should just start wearing contacts. It will solve all the problems.

JK Rowling takes a big part in the movies as a consultant, and I read somewhere (Not sure how true it is though, so don't quote me on it) that she had the entire story planned out, start to finish, before starting to write PS. So, I think that if the eye colour was important, she wouldn't have let the movie makers overlook the issue. This could also have a bearing on our theories of how the eye colour affects things in the final book - maybe it's not the colour, but some other aspect of his eyes?

Also maybe it is the colour that is important, but it doesn't matter what the colour is, as long as they are the SAME colour as his mother's?

In the first movie in some scenes Dan has green eyes and in others has blue, well I read it in an article, it was one of the mistakes I think, so I don't understan why they didn't let the green eyes that's a mistery .
But well the last director will know what to do...i hope.

I think i read somewhere that they were going to give Dan contacts to change his eye colour, but they irritated his eyes, so he couldn't wear them.

*Sigh* i wish they noticed these things. I understand it's not an important thing, but wait until that thing that's important about Harry's eye colour crops up in DH-that's going to be a problem.

It will not effect the plot otr story in any way .. All it is, is a colour.. change the green to blue and wallah! Not difficult

I do not know if someone already said that.
if I remember correctly LV has red eyes?!
And Harry in book has green eyes!
And red and green are complementary colours/contrast . (I`m not sure that that is the name in english. I hope it is! ) the same as blue and orange; yellow and violet/purple.
And that pairs of colours, if I remember my art lessons correctly , are opposite and they are painted oppositely in colour circle/wheel. something like 5 and -5 in math.
So I think that eye colour is one more sign of harry`s and LV`s difference. And it may or may have not be important in 7th book

argghh when i saw this thread i got rather annoyed... coz they HAVE SFX in some parts of the movies but not in others which is understandable but then they missed bits with green eyes and left them in
errmmm one point like this is in OTP cant remeber exactly when but i get a feeeling harry is laying on his side when he has the random green eyes

Could it be, rach, at Privets Drive, when Harry's dreaming about Cedric's death? That's because of the green light of the jinx.
I got a bit dissapointed when I found out that Harry actually had green eyes in the books, and blue ones in the movies. Because ... everybody there has blue eyes, heavens sake! Eeeverybody, but Emma of course, and I'm glad she hasn't because that'd be the last straw for fans. And Bonnie ... she's got blue eyes too, and they're supposed to be brown!
I think it'd have been great, really great, if they had made a bit of hocus pocus with the fx and turn blue into green at least.

It's kind of interesting how many people in the movies have blue eyes, then, considering blue eye color is a recessive trait. The dominant eye color is brown, and varying shades of it. So green eyes are more recessive, too, I would think...

Interesting point about the red/green opposites thing. I'd never thought about that. But I don't think it will matter too much. I think the main thing would be to have Harry's and Lily's eyes match (and I can't remember if they do or not).

It would be a rather long time for Dan Radcliffe to wear green contacts, though.

And about the eye color changing part, my eyes kind of do that. They always remain blue, but there's a little ring of color around my pupils that changes from brown to gray to green, depending on what I wear, how I feel, etc. It's really cool.

I think I read on Imdb that Dan can´t stand contact lenses so I do understand that part.
What I don´t understand however is why they can´t just change them in the computer for the close ups at least.

Maybe in thirty years they´ll release anniversary editions of these movies and Dans eyes will be fixed to fit the text although I kind off doubt it.

It doesn't really bother me that Dan has blue eyes and Harry had bright green eyes. Especially since that alleged significance was never mentioned in the books besides that he has his mom's eyes. Since he has that thing against contacts for whatever reason it's understandable.