Enervate: to deprive of vigor, force, or strength; to render feeble; to weaken

[rotae]

*appropriate icon is appropriate* XDD

DUDE. So, I've been given The Forbidden Forest (Chapter 15 PS/SS) as my chapter for the HP Art Project, and I was just double checking heights and looks and stuff of Harry, Hermione, Draco and Neville, because that's who I'm drawing... and...

Did anyone realise that JKR said Neville is BLOND?!!

Ms. ROWLING: [...] Now, to me, Neville's short and plump and blond, but that's what's great about books. You know, she's just seeing something different. People bring their own imagination to it. They have to collaborate with the author on creating the world.

0.o WHUT?!

I HAVE BEEN SO BRAINWASHED BY THOSE MOVIES, MAN. LOLOL. I was SO SURE he was canon brunette. Srsly.

Oh and I was watching some M*A*S*H* the other day, and Colonel Potter (no less! LOL) said, "SILENCIO!!!" at one point!!!!!!!!! OMFGGGGGGG GEEK OVERLOAD XDDDDD

I swear these Chinese gymnasts are four years old, man, srsly. LOLOL.

Peace,
Rotae

Comments

[masterofmystery.livejournal.com]

Wait wait. WHAT! I don't remember reading that in the interviews ANYWHERE, and that was NEVER stated in the books. Hell, she even drew Neville out once and he had dark fucking hair.

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/images/jkr/duel.jpg

Where is that quote from? I don't believe it.

[tellemonstar.livejournal.com]

OMG! *is brainwashed*

And I must say, I agree about those Chinese gymnasts. Most of them are my sister's age (9) or just slightly older. Definately not 16.

[hazy-crazy.livejournal.com]

LMAOOO I did hear that his canon hair is blonde. But I simply and outrageously REFUSE to write him with blonde hair or picture him with blonde hair. o______O I don't really like blonde guys you see haha but even so, dark hair suits him better. Seriously :/

[fernwithy.livejournal.com]

I swear these Chinese gymnasts are four years old, man, srsly. LOLOL.

Heh, no kidding. Sorry, but there are body and facial changes that come with puberty, and most of them haven't gotten there. Even slow development of curves isn't going to change the facial progression! (I don't know if you get any of our commentary down there, but Bela Karolyi was on with Bob Costas, and just said, absolutely matter-of-fact, "Oh, yes, of course, half the Chinese team is underage, but you can't prove it, so oh, well." He's against the age restriction in the first place and respected the team, but he just basically said, "Duh. Who do they think they're kidding?") It would be petty for another team to complain, and the time for the IOC to do it is over. I wouldn't want a medal that we'd only have by disqualifying the best competition, anyway.

JKR never described Neville as blond in the books, and the quote seems to imply that she doesn't care that much, so if you want a brunette Neville, I think it would work.

[svimmelhet.livejournal.com]

JKR is a crack smokin' ho. ....just saying.

[munanna.livejournal.com]

Ahahahhaha, I've been writing him as blond in my fics for years! At one point I was actually lectured by an angry reader that Neville was brunette, dammit, and how dare I change canon!!! XDDDD

(ofcourse, letting him be enthusiastically molested by Draco was completely canon.)

[musyc]

Dudley's blond too, man! All these blonds in canon!

[cambryn.livejournal.com]

I always thought he was a dark blonde. :) That's always how I've drawn him- I thought it was canon, but couldn't find where it said that. :/

[cesaretech.livejournal.com]

Pansy's also described with blonde hair. I remember so long ago someone writing a big paper about how J.K. Rowling was trying to send a bad message about blond people (Draco, Pansy, Zacharias, Dudley), and even poor Neville was thrown in there (pre-DH). Yet, it hasn't stopped fanon from taking over his or Pansy's hair color.

Yeah, those Chinese girls have to be underage. We're not stupid, China.

[opaleyes.livejournal.com]

I think when I first drew him (way back in high school?) I gave him dark blonde hair. I'd forgotten about that! I do totally picture him as having dark brown hair now. Oh, Matthew Lewis, for you I will ignore canon. (Same with the Weasley twins, and how the Phelps are technically too skinny.)

[lady-game.livejournal.com]

He's blonde? Weird. But I just read the comments... Petunia's blonde?! I've always seen her as a brunette!!

Hmm I could've sworn some of those Chinese girls look about 12 too. You have to remember though that Asians in general look young... I'm twenty and people constantly think I'm seventeenish. Which isn't that much of a difference I know, but it's about the difference between sixteen and twelve :) But yeah, one of the girls looks like she's eight. I didn't know there was an age limit!

[birdseyeview.livejournal.com]

I did but I'm so used to seeing him with brown hair.

I get really confused when people show him with blond hair but thin that to me = Draco. (Or maybe Zacharias Smith.) I nearly flipped (not in a good way) when I saw a picture of some skinny, blond dude taking out Nagini but it turned out to be a rather skinny, anime-pointy Neville.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

For serious? I thought he was canon brunette too! Even when I recently did a re-read, I didn't pick up on that! I don't care, he's still brunette to me. :/

[finchburg.livejournal.com]

The problem I have is that JKR gives all these interviews and questions are asked to "fill in the fanon gaps and spell everything out" and it just turns out to be a huge mess. Yes, learning Dumbles leads the parade is just a pain, but still very fabulous.

I've always pictured Pansy blonde because Draco is the child of perfect pureblood breeding and Lucius and Narcissa are both blond so it seems really logical that he would either be drawn to or told that he should get together with someone of the same hair color persuasion.

Now, all this interview ish also doesn't get digested properly and people forget how to read and are unable of applying what she says to what canon says.

For example, over in sorting someone mentioned on an application that children conceived under Love Potions make them incapable of love. BUZZZZ! Time out, that is never said in the books.

I questioned where they heard that from and they in turn quoted an interview where JKR says that the potion is symbolic. No matter what way you shake it Riddle grew up without a nurturing influence so why would he ever be able to understand/comprehend an emotion as complex and simple as love w/o that exposure? His mom never really knew love either, he was pretty much SOL from the start. But that can all be derived from canon, you don't need her clarification in an interview to get that. So all this extra stuff does nothing but muddy the waters.

Except for the question I asked her about what happens to the dark marks after Volde's defeat in the live chat after DH dropped. That is not fluff xD

[vivid-memory.livejournal.com]

Neville's BLONDE?!? Whaaat? How did I never hear about this before?

Oh my, the Chinese gymnasts do look really young. I know that not everyone looks the same at 16 and that gymnasts tend to be of smaller stature...but a few of them look like they're 10!

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

HELL YES! I was told for AGES that my blonde Neville was non cannical in my OOTP chapter illustration but HAHAHAHHAA
I was right

*dances*

[mizzmoonyluver.livejournal.com]

LOLWUT.

...So basically he's Peter's brother from another mother?