Is Harry a good-looking boy?

[Mr Ollivander 382]

OK , I almost had a row with some of my female friends about this issue .
Is Harry a good looking boy .

as a male , I could'nt care less , but I always pictured him as that nerdy normal looking boy , nothing special .
I argued that JKR didn't mention anything about him being handsome or anyone else mentioning it to him .

which is good in my oinion , I don't want him to be good looking .. I want him to be normal .
the broblem is the covers of the US books , they all showed him as normal , the GoF cover showed slightley goofy .. but normal nevertheless .

however , the American OoTP cover totally departed from the normal picture of Harry into a more handsome one ... !!


http://images.amazon.com/images/P/043935806X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg


I wasn't pleased at all ... Harry is supposed represent that you don't need to be good looking and fashionable in order to be cool .


so a question to the girls in this forums , as if there are that many boys here anyway :D ..... it's so unfair :

How did you picture Harry in your mind while reading the books , leaving Dan Radcliffe out of it please ........ ? ........ ;D

did you picture him as good looking , normal , ugly or nerdy .... ?



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[Dedalus]

I always picture him to be more sort of normal looking. I mean, the way she describes him ... skinny, unhealthy looking with big black thick glasses and tatty hair ... not too much a heartthrob, eh? So just normal, verging on nerdy (with the glasses and the baggy clothes, which, to be fair, aren't really his fault).

[Guardian Angel]

I don't think the cover shows Harry as more handsome guy, I see him as a more mature and older guy on that picture.

[dumbleedore]

I've always thought of Harry as a tall, gawky kid who is unsure of himself. Same with Ron. And Hermione has always been really really pretty in my mind. And Cho looks like the rear end of a truck. And Cedric was handsome... but to answer the question, no I never thought of him as good looking (my god, I left DR out of it)

[jitjian]

Harry doesn't look handsome in the cover, Mr.Olivander. You must be getting old. Time to change your the power of you spectacles lenses with a flickof you wand(s);)

[Mr Ollivander 382]

jitjian

I didn't say he was looking 'handsome' in that cover .... !
I said he was looking 'more' handsome in that cover ......... :D

it's about relativity , he was looking 'better' in this cover than the previous ones ... does that help ........ ;D

and yes , I am getting old ......... I'm almost 25 ......... :D


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[Cat]

I imagine him as gawky, scrawny, scruffy looking teenager. I think his main charm, and the reason why so many girls at Hogwarts like him, is that he's rich, famous and a top Quidditch player.

Well, no, we all know that his main charm is his personality... except when he's throwing a temper, the moody so-and-so.

[MagpieOnaga]

Yeah, I see what you mean. He is rather more endearing on the new cover than the old ones. However, I thought this cover, for the first time, really captured how I imagine Harry to look. He's not your typical heartthrob, but he's not goofy-looking either.

I must admit, when I read the description of young James -- thin face, slightly longer nose, ruffled hair, etc. -- it made me think more about the way Harry looks. James isn't like Sirius, who had the whole hair-falling-perfectly-in-place thing going on; he's no heartthrob. But he still seemed attractive to me; perhaps more-so than Sirius because of his dissheveledness. And, after reading James's description, as well as the description of Lily, I definitely don't see Harry as unattractive -- I mean, if he's a mix of his parents, he can't be goofy-looking. Am I making sense? Basically, I'm saying that I sort of see Harry as leaning towards the attractive side now. He's just got goofy accessories (glasses, baggy clothes), and he's not tall or muscular. But I still see him as a nice-looking boy, not unlike the cover picture.

[pineapple]

I don't see Harry as ugly. And, I think that I might make him more handsome in my head than he is described to be. In my head he's actually pretty good looking...

I've always though James was pretty handsome too. I think that might have been because he had a mischevious personality, and people like that always seem handsome to me. sigh.

[R3mus Lup!n]

I see harry as normal-looking.Looks a little nerdy with glasses.He isn't unatractive or anything.Its just in terms of looks,he's ordinary,but in terms of personality,he rocks.

[Neveregwen]

Honestly, I don't see what all the hype is about his looks anyway. Some girls like it, some girls don't. Does it really matter?

[dumbleedore]

^ not really, but it's a talking point! It'll get us through till book 6!

[vickygirl4]

I always saw Harry as normal, a little on the nerdy side. Now Draco on the other hand, hubba hubba! Sirius too!

[Nick]

Harry's normal looking in my eyes, although it's hard to imagine him different to Dan Radcliffe, since I saw the movies before I got the books.

Potter is not cool, btw. I will maintain that until one of us dies.

[majo]

I've always pictured Harry as being relatively "normal" looking. Meaning that he's not incredibly handsome, but he's not ugly either. So, I guess I agree with everyone else who's posted.

[Virtuousdream]

I see him as normal. Just out of interest, did James have glasses whilst he was at school...nothing against glasses because I need then I just wear contacts, but would Harry be better looking if he found a magic way to cure his eyesight?

[Padfoot_Uk]

ok, not going really from the book covers at all because all over the world and from book to book they vary so much, id say i am actually not sure.

although we do find a lot of girls that have an interest in Harry, like his date for the yule ball and everything, im not actually clear on whether its for his personality, his fame or his looks.

he is described in a rugged way and in my opinion a lot of girls like that. but everyone has different tastes, so what one person would find horrible the next person could absolutely hate. so im my opinion its all up 2 the eye of the beholder, the way you interpret it and your own tastes.

[Eruanna]

i don;t think hes that hot...i guess he;s just normal...although he does have balck hair....

sirius is way hotter than Harry.....dunno why...its not just about looks....i don't like harry....

[Janine]

Well, I've always seen Harry as 'cute' more than anything else. I mean, with messy black hair and piercing green eyes, he's gotta rate at least a 'cute', right? ;)

[PrtVeela]

I always picture male characters cute (its a downfall)

hehehe Janine, you can't go wrong w/ messy black hair and green eyes in my opinion. That def. gets a cute rating on my scale ( i don't really have a scale it was for the sake of the post :) )

[lufc_chic]

I don't care how he looks like... with his accent anything looks good to me... I love british accent....

[Sweetie]

Of course he's hot...I always thought of him looks-wise as maybe a younger version of that "grown up, rugged guy" that appears in just about every movie ever...

[FatalBeauty]

Originally posted by PrtVeela (original post (http://www.cosforums.com/a/showthread.php?postid=405869#post405869))
I always picture male characters cute (its a downfall)


Same with me! The way I imagine the characters, there's not a single ugly guy in the wizarding world! Harry's definitely a hottie, but he's not as hot as his father James.....And Sirius is probably the hottest of them all! :D

[Fleur]

Harry was not bad looking, but not gorgeous or anything. Same with Ron, but I think in my mind Ron is cuter.

The characters in Hp that are really hot in my mind are the Marauders (minus Peter). :drool:

[fawkesthepheonix]

[quote]Originally posted by PrtVeela (original post (http://www.cosforums.com/a/showthread.php?postid=405869#post405869))
I always picture male characters cute (its a downfall)

Me too! :lol: So that means that I picture Harry as a good-looking boy.

[jmk623]

Not drop dead gorgeous, but a bit cute, I imagined. Harry has messy hair and a bit short and skinny for his age; I thought that meant a bit on the cute side.
But he's growing up. I imagine a more darker and mature look than he was 11.

[Dark Fallen Pride]

I have personally always seen Harry as this guy I used to know he had jet black hair, glasses, green eyes and was poorish looking and he is really cute so the Harry in my head is really cute too not that Dan guy I think he is very ugly but this probably has alot to do with that he looks like my grandmothers friends son who is a very creepy looking guy who I think tried hitting on my mom and who always happens to look stoned out of his mind...back to the subject now...and I have just noticed how stupid Harry looks on the first 3 covers...

You have to remember he is growing up in this cover he looks more normal not um..."special"

[Bee]

I saw the movies before I read the books so I pictured all the charcters and Hogwarts as what I saw in the movie... lucky for me because people who read the books first said they were diappointed because they'd just lost the magical world they made in their heads.

[Capella]

Oh, Harry's certainly not ugly. The messy dark hair and the big green eyes - rather cute. He's better looking than the other Gryffindor boys at least (well, maybe not Seamus ;) ). Sirius is the greatest looker of them all though.

[Hammi]

Good thing ur not gay because the cover of the american ootp def does not depict an abercrombie hottie which makes harry neither fashionable or handsome

[Amadeus]

I don't think he is good looking on the covers... but if James attracted a lot of girls... why wouldn't Harry since Harry looks just like his dad... except for the eyes

[NeedAM!nT]

I always pictured Harry as tall and lanky with big hands and feet (sort of like Clay from American Idol, but a bit shorter) Then with messy black hair and huge glasses.

[Padfoot_Uk]

Originally posted by NeedAM!nT (original post (http://www.cosforums.com/a/showthread.php?postid=414725#post414725))
I always pictured Harry as tall and lanky with big hands and feet (sort of like Clay from American Idol, but a bit shorter) Then with messy black hair and huge glasses.


lol soudns like me except ive got blond hair,

but back to topic as ive said before, it all depends on opinion becasue some girls might like that

[andreadelacour]

Yes, I like that. =)

[Celestine_Adams]

They show Harry as being a bit of a "pretty boy" in the illustrations in the American edition of OotP, IMHO.

He's not ugly. He's got the "cute-nerd" look about him, instead of someone who just looks repulsive *coughSnapecough*. :D

[ashley]

Harry has a somewhat rough edge to him which makes him rather good looking in a strange way (not the tradition handsome pretty boy) ..if you know what I mean.

[HPviolinist85]

Daniel Radcliffe looks "neeter" and more handsome than Harry's description in the books

[Buckbeak]

I think Harry has a sort of something about him that makes girls like him. in my oppion he's not ugly and he's not drop dead gorgous, but pretty boys can be sort of annoying anyway so thats good. i kind of like the way his hair is always messy, like someone said he is described as 'rugged'.
i think that its prehaps his personalty that makes him more interesting and the fact that he has courage, cause any guy that would risk his life for his friends like harry is certainly worth the attention.

im also glad harry isn't 'beautiful' cause it makes him more real, thinking of him as a brooding misunderstood teenager so being sort of on the geeky side makes it his charm.

[Becca]

No matter what a guys appearance is like, there will always be a girl who thinks he's good looking. Personally, I've always been attracted to that nerdy/average looking guy, so I would consider Harry adorable. To gals who prefer that Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise look, they most likely would look over a fella like Harry.

[Hermione Cosplayer]

I think book Harry is not as attractive as movie Harry currently. But I see book Harry as the kind of skinny ackward teen that will really be something when he finishes maturing and filling out.

(My husband was like that)

[Harrys_Lil_Owl16]

I think Daniel gives Harry appeal to girls ages 3-30 honestly I have seen women who think he is very cute and that as for the Harry in the books I think He may be a very normal boy who wouldnt stand out from a crowd with scruffy hair and specs yet his scar would make him different. Special. I think he would be the kind of lad who would keep him self to himself and do what he is meant to.

[evaluna]

A light topic for a change. I will say that I picture Harry as I feel he is conveyed by the author. That is, probably handsome [per Rita Skeeter's "otherwise charming face" and "startlingly green eyes"] but nonetheless lean and scruffy with somewhat tatty hair [and tatty clothes offhours] and not giving a fig about his looks and not at all acting "the pretty boy". And regardless of the fact that he probably is handsome given descriptions of his parents, it's still his character and his actions that define him. In all honesty, people tend to look on the surface [per the Slytherin girls' comments when he was out with Cho in his tatty civvies] and they see Harry's glasses [=nerd but obviously he's athletic, so he contradicts the stereotype there that you can only be a geek or only an athlete]. So even with his appearance, which is secondary, Harry disregards or breaks down stereotypes, which I think is brilliant.

[JKRIAG]

i imagined him as normal looking.....but yea the front of that book def. doesnt make him look gorgeous

[Prophet]

In my mind, he's cute in a messy-haired way, I can't help it. Maybe it's because I'm also getting old... I'm as old as Harry would be now, if he was real.

Prophet

[WeasleyIsOurKing]

I always imagined Harry as kind of boyishly handsome. Not drop dead gourgeous, like Cedric was supposed to be, but just kind of cute.

[shanobyl]

i dont think harry is meant to be good looking. he's just a regular kid...
"im just me.. harry"

[Jessie]

I suppose at first glance Harry's not what a girl would instantly call 'cute' - maybe just 'okay', but not immediately 'cute / handsome'. Depends on the person, really. People who like Harry more tend to think the boy is good-looking, while people who can't really stand the sight of him tend to think he has the worst possible face in the world, ain't it so? But all in all, I can somewhat picture Harry as being the kind of boy most girls would probably pet around, like a little brother or something. Not a heart-throb, no. I guess what might make him really attractive to some is him. Him himself - him inside.

[Dedalus Diggle]

The constants for Harry have been the bright green eyes - not merely hazel, more like bright moss - and the very scruffy hair, like a really bad case of pillow hair all the time. In the first book he's basically a runt - very scrawny and short. In POA of course, Marge is still calling him a runt, but she is not necessarily a dependable source. Clearly he is still supposed to be quite skinny, and significantly shorter than Ron. He does not seem to be described as handsome in any particular way. He doesn't look like 'the hero' the way Cedric did. But of course a recurring theme is that things are not always as they appear.

As much as Dan Radcliffe does not look quite like Harry (straight hair, blue eyes), the Weasleys are a further departure. The twins are supposed to be short and strongly built - that's why they are beaters. Ron is tall - he's supposed to be as tall as the twins even when he is only 11 and they are 13.

Aah, well, let's not get hung up on showbiz standards. That's not the real world - okay neither are the books, so what the heck: the books are in the mind while,movies are visual, so what do you expect!?

[Niffler_8882]

Harry is iffy..i mean he's not disgustingly ugly but he isn't gorgeous either..i guess you could say that he is okay pretty good looking, in my point of view that is

[LumosSoleil]

I imagined him to be skinny but lean. And yes, if the HP books kept its pace, Harry would be the same age as me. I guess when you asked that question, the first thing that came to my mind was Daniel Radcliffe. Cuz, well he looks prettier than how I imagined Harry to look like, but all in all, I think his body type is like Orlando Bloom-which is really skinny, but with a little lean muscle.
Harry, IMO, should be about like 5'9'' or taller by now in OotP. His hair is scruffy but cute scruffy. His eyes are reallly emerald green. I like the idea that his physical description goes against the stereotype. Same for his dad.
But I guess that the personality will make any unattractive person seem attractive. I usually go for guys like Harry. I'm not really into pretty boys.

[strwznbrry]

I always imagined him as just a regular looking kid with the potential to look really good when he is older. I think thats the way I pictured all of the student characters. When someone is that young they don't look how they will when they are an adult but you can tell somewhat what they will look like. I think thats what JKR did with the trio. She made them all out to be kind of awkward and funny looking at the beginning because they were in that stage of life and as they get older and more mature they kind of grow into their good looks.

[Zachary1993]

He's looks okay I guess. I would not call him ugly.

[Weatherby]

I think he'll grow into his looks. He could easily be popular in the emo music scene at least.
He's skinny, glasses, jeans.. Yes he'd be quite dreamy by my standards. ;)

[Loz]

I think Harry's the most handsomest boy in the series - startling green eyes, beautiful pouty lips, aquiline nose, toned muscles from Quidditch, fairly small and then gangly later on. That beautifully scruffy and always fashionable hair. Not to mention the snitch tattoo.

Oh wait, that's fanfiction.

JKR only describes Harry's cursory appearance. As the novels are from his perspective and he doesn't spend all day and night in front of a mirror (well, except for Erised), naturally we're not going to have indepth descriptions of well formed lips and chiselled bone structure. We can imagine him for ourselves.

In my imagination he is fairly good looking, but also insecure and often looks like the [zit ridden] teenager he is.

[Picko]

Harry is short and badly groomed with a bad attitude, in short he's an ugly bugger.

[Loz]

Harry is short and badly groomed with a bad attitude, in short he's an ugly bugger.

Like you, you mean?

I don't think there's any textual evidence that he's 'ugly'. I guess it depends on what you call ugly.

[Picko]

Like you, you mean?

You could say that, I've been trying to get a lawsuit up for ages claiming JK is using my looks for her fictional character and hasn't asked me for permission :D

[Loz]

You could say that, I've been trying to get a lawsuit up for ages claiming JK is using my looks for her fictional character and hasn't asked me for permission :D

Of course, she took down every detail of your appearance for her novels, especially the snitch tattoo.

[Cindy]

I always picture Harry as a nerdy looking guy with glasses. So even though when I read the books I picture Snape as Alan Rickman and Flitwick as Warwick Davis, I couldn't picture Harry Potter as the good-looking Daniel Radcliffe. Harry Potter's....nerdy. :p

[rotsiepots]

I don't think he is good looking on the covers... but if James attracted a lot of girls... why wouldn't Harry since Harry looks just like his dad... except for the eyes

Exactly. I think we can safely assume that most people regard Harry as rather good looking. He also managed to attract the affections of Cho Chang who, by all accounts, is very pretty and dated the equally pretty Cedric Diggory before his untimely death. If we're using Cedric as a yardstick then Harry must be vaguely attractive.

Similarly, Harry also managed to get Parvati Patil to go to the Yule Ball with him. The Patils were referred to as the "best looking girls" in Harry's year. Parvati seems quite shallow so I'm sure she wouldn't go with someone ugly (heavens above!).

I wouldn't say Harry is the descendant of Roman gods, but he is handsome.

[Cat]

I don't think he is good looking on the covers... but if James attracted a lot of girls... why wouldn't Harry since Harry looks just like his dad... except for the eyes

I'm not sure it was James' looks that attracted girls so much as his Quidditch talent and cocky attitude.

Harry has Quidditch talent and fame as a hero. It's not wonder Parvati went the the Yule Ball with him. In those circumstances, she'd probably have gone with him if he looked like Mad Eye Moody.

People were all over Krum, after all, and he's suppose to be a bit ... not entirely pretty.

[giantsquid28]

At this point, I imagine him as being slightly geeky looking, but still kinda cute [like Ross Gellar on Friends]. However, I think Harry is going to "grow into" his looks as he matures, so that when he is fully grown he will be hott.

[FoolOnTheHill]

I don't think Harry's the pretty boy that Cedric was, or the really hansome young man that Sirius was, but I definitely don't think he's ugly. He's probably just a normal looking boy, good looking to some people and not so much to others. But loving him as I do I imagine that I'd think he was cute. A good personality makes a person a lot better looking than a really attractive jerk.

[Dorkus221]

i don't think harry in real life would be bood looking he seems like a boy that never bathes and just puls on whatever is closest to him :td: like in the books J.K says his hair grows very fast and he cant brush it neetly to me if i saw him i'd think eww give me a brush his hair is a rats nest!!

[LumosSoleil]

Looks like almost everyone's describe Harry the way I imagined him.
Isn't it a shame he isn't real? I guess Daniel Radcliffe didn't start off good-looking either, though he was adorable, but he got handsome too fast.
The character seems to grow into his looks in GoF and OotP the way the girls gush about him.

[DrummerboyDT]

He kind of looks like Toby McGuire to me. I think he should look like a normal boy. If he gets all too pretty for the ladies, he won't seem like Harry Potter.

[SoftballChik]

When I first read the books, i didn't think of him as ugly, but defidently not anything special... I mean, some skinny kid with baggy clothes and broken glasses? Nothing extraordinary about that.......but that was her point, make him seem not much different from anybody else, and make you feel a little sorry for him too, having to wear dudley's old too-big clothes and such. But as the stories progressed, so did how I pictured him. Still not great, but pretty good looking... it's just the accessories (as somebody else said). If he could just get some clothes that fit, and some new glasses, he'd be great!

As for the Book 5 cover, i don't think it makes him look really really good-looking... He has matured a lot (emotionally and (probably) physically too), and the picture shows it. He's had to go through a lot the past year, and it's made him a lot braver I think, which is why he looks more like the "average hero 'I'll save you' bravery" type of look going on.
~victoria~

[hermione_fan]

I always thought of him as normal. I mean I think he's going throuhg the growing up stage now. He's tall and skinny and everything. Like every guy goes through that. He's also really unsure of himself. It happens to everyone.

[Violet Tonks]

The way he is described in the books sounds exactly like my uncle, so I don't think of him as anywhere near handsome. But ol' Voldie had the best look of them all.

[potterfan300]

i myself have always thought of him as being "normal" but that crack in book 5 when harry went out with cho chang

"harry was just starting to feel comfortable when a gang of slytherin girls passed him and cho....."ugh chang i dont care much fo your taste at least Diggory was good looking"(Pansy Parkinson) that made me feel bad for him cause that kind of implied that harry was ugly
see what i mean?

[giantsquid28]

i myself have always thought of him as being "normal" but that crack in book 5 when harry went out with cho chang

"harry was just starting to feel comfortable when a gang of slytherin girls passed him and cho....."ugh chang i dont care much fo your taste at least Diggory was good looking"(Pansy Parkinson) that made me feel bad for him cause that kind of implied that harry was ugly
see what i mean?

Look at the source of the quote- Pansy. She's gone out or is going out with Harry's enemy and she's probably jealous of Harrys looks. Even if he is "normal" looking. Harry has said she has a face like a pug and Hermione has called her a cow. Which, in my opinion, means that she looks bad. I think she had some idea of how inferior Harry felt to Cedric and was trying to play off that.

[jasper]

I have always thought the cover art got it wrong. Harry looks way too nerdy and awkward on the covers of the books. But maybe he is. I think if he was handsome, JKR would have said so.

[Mirtilla]

Actually I think that Harry is handsome and charming.
There's something about Harry that's unusual, and he managed to have a date with the popular Cho Chang. It is my belief that Cho liked Harry in PoA, that famous meeting on the brooms, she seems to be attracted to him.
Now let's take a peek on these quotes:

"'Are you going to report me?' Harry asked her (Hermione), grinning. 'Oh - of course not - but honestly, Harry -'"

Harry grins and Hermione is incapable to speak.

"'Oh well ... I'd been thinking ... if you had died, you'd have been welcomed to share my toilet.' said Myrtle blushing silver."

This is what Myrtle said, Harry have success not only with human girls but also with ghost-girl

"At that moment there was a diversion in the form of a small, redheaded figure in a long nightdress, who appeared in the kitchen, gave a small squeal, and ran out again. 'Ginny,' said Ron in an undertone to Harry. 'My sister. She's been talking about you all summer.'"

Ginny talked about Harry all the summer and as soon as she saw him she become quite crazy

"'Hermy-own-ninny talks about you very often.' said Krum looking suspiciously at Harry."

Same situation with Hermione, another girl that seems to talk often about Harry.

"Lavender Brown let out a shrill giggle. Parvati Patil nudged her hard in the ribs, her face working furiously as she too fought not to giggle. They both looked around at Harry...."

Now we have both Lavender and Parvati that as soon as McGonagall just announced the Yule Ball was approaching they looked at Harry

"'Parvati? Will you go to the ball with me?' Parvati went into a fit of giggles....'Yes, alright then.' she said finally blushing furiously."

Parvati seems to really like the idea of going to the ball with Harry

Fleur bent down, kissed Harry twice on each cheek (he felt his face burn and wouldn't have been surprised if steam was coming out of his ears again)..."

Wow Fleur Delacour kissed Harry, when she have always said that he was a little boy.

'good-bye, 'Arry,' said Fleur, turning to go. 'It 'az been a pleasure meeting you!'

Again Fleur seems to like Harry and to respect him.

"Her eyes ranged over Neville and came to rest on Harry. She nodded......she stared and stared at Harry, who had taken the seat opposite her and now wished he hadn't. 'Had a good summer, Luna?' Ginny asked. 'Yes', said Luna dreamily, without taking her eyes off Harry."

Luna stares at Harry and she doesn't take her eyes off Harry.

"She (Cho) was even nearer to him now. He could have counted the freckles on her nose. 'I really like you, Harry.'"

This one speak for itself, "I really like you Harry"

"'Oh… well… that was nice of her.' But Cho did not sound as though she thought it was nice at all. On the contrary, her tone was cold and all of a sudden she looked rather forbidding."

Cho is jealous that Harry wants to meet another girl during their Valentine's Day, not to mentione their first(and last) date.

So well I guess that Harry in his own way impressed girls and girls seems to be interested in him, romantically or not.

So based on canon I guess that Harry is handsome and charming, he's charming in his own way.

Mirtilla

[Doggy]

Mirtilla, I'd say what you just wrote should go in the Love Thread also. :)

Personally, I never saw Harry as incredibly good-looking (even though looks are a matter of opinion). Never as incredibly ugly either, just as a normal-looking guy. The average guy which exists in every class.
The way he's described in the books has never been the way that made me think of him as stunningly handsome. I can agree that there are some parts that can make him sound pretty good-looking, but that doesn' have to mean that he is as good-looking as he sounds. If I were to describe myself in a book, I'd end up seeming a lot more good-looking than I am.

[Mirtilla]

Doggy, this topic has already brought up on the Love Thread :)

Well my point was that girls find something in Harry without doubt, good looking or not they still fascinated by him in some way. I always saw Harry as charming then good looking, as you said not stunningly handsome but still charming.

Mirtilla

[LumosSoleil]

Hehe, I'll sort of repeat what I said in the love thread, somehow I have a huge suspicion there's going to be more than one girl crushing on Harry. I have to say I still see him as good-looking from the descriptions of his parents and the tiny mention of Rita Skeeter's article. But yes I don't think he's drop dead gorgeous but his whole appeal of kinda an outsider, a rebel, that attracts girls.

[giantsquid28]

Hehe, I'll sort of repeat what I said in the love thread, somehow I have a huge suspicion there's going to be more than one girl crushing on Harry. I have to say I still see him as good-looking from the descriptions of his parents and the tiny mention of Rita Skeeter's article. But yes I don't think he's drop dead gorgeous but his whole appeal of kinda an outsider, a rebel, that attracts girls.

He's dark, mysterious, and a bit of a rebel, I'm not surprised that he attracts a lot of attention. Most girls like "bad" boys. I think a lot of the girls already think Harry is pretty special. Several asked him out the the Yule Ball after all. I don't think that was just because he was a champion.

[Doggy]

Doggy, this topic has already brought up on the Love Thread :) Oh sorry, Mirtilla (:blush:), I hardly ever go there myself, so I don’t know what happens there.

Well my point was that girls find something in Harry without doubt, good looking or not they still fascinated by him in some way. I always saw Harry as charming then good looking, as you said not stunningly handsome but still charming.

Mirtilla
Personally, I think the reason people stare at him a bit, is that he’s famous. Yes I agree, you might think that they’ve gotten over him by now after five years, but the only people who see him that much are the Gryffindors mainly. The rest of the (apparently) one thousand students are probably a bit thrilled about him.

[true_heir_of_slyth]

Hmm, good question. For me, Daniel Radcliffe isn't good looking, but the Harry I imagine when reading the books is. I saw this amazing piece of fanart here on CoS somewhere (OK, it was James, but never mind :lol: ) and that picture sort of stuck. Aside from that, he does seem sort of sweet and charming...and he's famous- what more could a girl want? ;) :lol:

[Mirtilla]

Originally posted by Doggy
Personally, I think the reason people stare at him a bit, is that he’s famous. Yes I agree, you might think that they’ve gotten over him by now after five years, but the only people who see him that much are the Gryffindors mainly. The rest of the (apparently) one thousand students are probably a bit thrilled about him.

Yes, I agree with you the fact that Harry is famous is also one of the reason why people (male or female) stare at him, however Harry managed to have a date with Cho Chang who seems one of the most popular girl in Hogwarts, and Cho's ex-boyfriend was Cedric, a really nice guys, so Cho must have find something attractive in Harry, I'm not saying that Harry is a beautiful guy but I think he's definitely handsome.

Mirtilla

[Picko]

Yes, I agree with you the fact that Harry is famous is also one of the reason why people (male or female) stare at him, however Harry managed to have a date with Cho Chang who seems one of the most popular girl in Hogwarts, and Cho's ex-boyfriend was Cedric, a really nice guys, so Cho must have find something attractive in Harry, I'm not saying that Harry is a beautiful guy but I think he's definitely handsome.

Mirtilla

It is however worth considering for a moment that the fact that he is famous makes him good looking. There are countless example of genuinely unattractive celebrities having thousands of people think they are gorgeous just because they are famous and this could quite possibly be the case with Mr Harry Potter.

[Mirtilla]

It is however worth considering for a moment that the fact that he is famous makes him good looking. There are countless example of genuinely unattractive celebrities having thousands of people think they are gorgeous just because they are famous and this could quite possibly be the case with Mr Harry Potter.

Oh yes but I never said that since Harry is famous he's also a good looking. I think that he's handsome, I don't think that Cho dated Harry only because he's famous; then of course there are people that only because someone is famous automatically he/her is beautiful, in GOF we have a great example of this: Krum. Krum isn't a good looking guy however girls would have liked to go to the Yule Ball with him. But I don't think that this is the case with Harry Potter, after all bright green eyes as a fresh pickled toad are very beautiful eyes

Mirtilla

[WeasleyIsOurKing]

I personally don't see any evidence in the books that any girl is attracted to Harry in the sense that many were attracted to Cedric, Bill, or Lockhart. No one drools over him or sighs or is intimidated by his appearance. I think that the attraction Cho and Ginny shared toward him was due to his personality and partly his fame.

However, I do think he would be attractive. His parents were good-looking themselves and since he looks a lot like them he can't be ugly. :eyebrows:

[giantsquid28]

I personally don't see any evidence in the books that any girl is attracted to Harry in the sense that many were attracted to Cedric, Bill, or Lockhart. No one drools over him or sighs or is intimidated by his appearance. I think that the attraction Cho and Ginny shared toward him was due to his personality and partly his fame.

However, I do think he would be attractive. His parents were good-looking themselves and since he looks a lot like them he can't be ugly. :eyebrows:

Harry seems to be kind of oblivious to that type of thing. I really doubt that he would notice if girls were gawking at him. Even if he did see them, he would probably blame it on his scar.

[CraZy_Kender]

I never really thought he was handsome, I pictured him the way he is on the Danish covers (perhaps not the one for OotP):
They're in the order
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3
2
4
5

[giantsquid28]

Is it just me, or does the Harry on that first one look a lot like Dan Radcliffe?

[thinkpink38]

I don't think he's good looking, not that he's ugly, because nobody is really ugly. But I geuss he's just not my "type". He's certainly cute, but in a geeky way. And if people stare at him its probably because he is famous, perhaps.

[chochang2021]

I think he is not handsome. I mean, he wears glasses, is really short and thin, he has a scar on his forehead. But I think Harry looks really loveable, like, you want to hug him all the time. ;)

J.K. said, when describing Sirius, that he actually was handsome and looked better then James Potter. As Harry looks really like his father, I think J.K. has indirectly stated that Harry is not handsome.

[Mirtilla]

Originally posted by chochang2021
J.K. said, when describing Sirius, that he actually was handsome and looked better then James Potter. As Harry looks really like his father, I think J.K. has indirectly stated that Harry is not handsome.

Not necessary, she stated that Harry and James could never be graceful as Sirius which doesn't necessary mean they aren’t handsome rather that Sirius was a very good looking boy.

Mirtilla

[chochang2021]

Not necessary, she stated that Harry and James could never be graceful as Sirius which doesn't necessary mean they aren’t handsome rather that Sirius was a very good looking boy.

Mirtilla

Well, I thought handsome means very good looking. :huh:

[Mirtilla]

Originally posted by Chochang2021
Well, I thought handsome means very good looking.

Oh yes but my point was to show that the fact that Sirius was more handsome then Harry and James doesn't necessary mean that Harry and James aren't/weren't good looking boys.

Well Harry is not a boy that is conventionally handsome like Sirius, he has something however that makes him charming and appealing, his bright green eyes are unusual just like him, his dark hair and his and he's definitely athletic since he played Quidditch, he's definitely handsome in his own way

Mirtilla

[Mad Macca]

I never imagined Harry as a total troll :lol:, but he's not your prince charming either.
When there's talk about how good looking Sirius was, they never mention that James was terribley good looking either, and I always thought Harry to look like James, as everyone says. I tend to think of him as just looking average, not that it really matters.

[Cish_hp92]

daniel is really good looking imho
about harry though...i think he must be really good looking too but that's just me...green eyes and glasses and unruly hair really appeal to me somehow....
but then i think he isn't like a jock or pretty boy or anything but in MY eyes...i always imagined him to be appealing in a shy,mysterious sorta way...maybe that's just me, i hardly ever go for looks in a guy and harry is decribed exactly as "my type" but i don't think other people might think so

[CraZy_Kender]

Is it just me, or does the Harry on that first one look a lot like Dan Radcliffe?

I don't think he does... And the picture was made in 1997 or 1999 when they hadn't even started making any movies at all...

[koli]

when i read the books, i thought him to be good looking, not like gorgeous or anything, but i don't like dan radcliff for it exacly... :shrug: oh well

[Discordia]

I think that he is probably good looking. Not a prince Charming but in book 5 they described him as having the look of someone who'd grown alot in a short time. Rowling said in one of her interviews that Harry had inherited both of his parents good looks. I wouldn't call him a stone fox but he probably does have a degree of cuteness.

[Godrics_Heiress]

Yes, he is. Although not strikingly good-looking, he must be quite a charmer. Him being popular adds to his charisma. I'd like to think that whoever has dark hair and green eyes is really handsome, but tha's just me. And I can see adorable!Harry in Mirtilla's sig--he's really cute in that illustration.

[Mrs Padfoot]

I've always imagined him as good looking. But I think (as shallow as it might seem) that everybody imagines main characters as good-looking, although not nessessarily really handsome.

[Jessica Malfoy]

I wouldn't say he is ugly or I wouldn't say hes good looking either he's just a normal average boy.

[feshnie]

I always picture Harry Potter as a skinny boy who has a jet black hair and green eyes. I din't really picture him like Dan R. The fifth book cover dosn't look handsome. It looks kinda like the rest except that the face is longer and he looks ugly. :p

[Rinn Shiryuu]

He's not my type, althought I love boys with black hair.


I just don't like Potter. XD Eh, He's just a normal-looking boy, nothing special.


Bah. *snugs her Draco plush* Rawr.

[Ginevra Weasley]

I've never pictured Harry as an teen-movie-style hottie,but I've never thought of him as unattractive either.My experience is,most kids (unless they're the HP ones lol) tend to be rather unprepossessing,looks-wise,till they're about fourteen or fifteen (I speak from personal experience).Maybe Harry's that way too.And anyway,the messy black hair and green eyes-who wouldn't want to reach out and rumple it,just a bit?Anyone with the combined genes of James Potter (who may have been a prat,but doesn't sound ugly) and Lily Evans doesn't have a very high chance of turning out ugly.I don't have a problem with Dan Radcliffe portraying Harry.Rupert Grint is exactly as I imagined Ron to be,in my head.And I don't think I could ever accept anyone but Emma Watson as Hermione,or Bonnie Wright as Ginny.
So,to sum up,I don't think of Harry as some cutie-pie-he's got more character than that....the thing is..he himself doesn't think he's particularly good-looking.I think that's what some of us are having problems with.

[Aramina]

I know some guys that look like I've imagined Harry to be, and I think they're rather attractive. So it might just be my personal preference, but I think he'd be good-looking. Add green eyes and black hair...I think he'd be stunning once he'd grown up and filled out a bit (I've got a thing for green eyes; what can I say?).

[misaki]

I've always thought of Harry as cute in a disheveled unkept kind of way. In my head he looks nothing like the Harry in the movies but neither does Ron, Hermione or Malfoy.

[Doggy]

We don't have enough information on him to judge if he's goodlooking or not. All we know about his looks is that he's got green eyes, messy black hair and he's skinny, and that doesn't tell us if he's handsome or not. A person can have all those features and still be terrifically ugly or stunningly handsome.

Yes, he's popular, and people stare at him in the corridors, but that can have just as much to with the fact that he's the Special Harry Potter With The Scar, as with the fact that he's drop-dead gorgeous.

[LunaGoldstein]

I have very different standards for attractiveness than many of my fellow females, so I shouldnt speak for all women :) I picture Harry cute in a boyish/nerdy sense that I can't resist, rather than just classicly handsome or something. Like he's someone you can cuddle with while watching Monty Python (*sigh* I'm such a geek) Skinny, nerdy guys with disheveled hair just turn my crank.
And as weird as this sounds, the uniforms and robes dont hurt either! Well minus the robes at least, cause in my mind there's somethign so oddly sexy about a guys in a shirt and tie, bonus points if the tie is undone :drool:
But stepping outside my perverted little mind, I think that if Harry wasnt famous or a star Quidditch player he'd attract quirky, nerdish girls who are into equally geeky guys.

[SilverStar]

It depends on your own personal opinion. Some girls like Brad Pitt and some find him disgusting.

I, personally, would like him. There is this guy in school who looks exactly like him and I had a huge crush on him all year. So there.

Especially (in the movies) in those Quidditch uniforms....... :eyebrows:

[Zenith]

I imagine Harry to be good looking. Not handsome, or hot, but just good looking in a scrawny, young male kind of way. His glasses and apparently nerdiness only appeal to me more. Harry CAN'T be ugly, IMO - it's not in his genes. Even if James' wasn't as handsome as Sirius, he was still, apparently, good looking and going by Lily's description, I'd say she was too.

I wouldn't call Harry average or normal looking, because normal is a very vague way of describing someone. I like skinny guys better than big, rough wide-chested guys, anyway.

[Bouncing_Ferret]

I don't think I ever really thought about how good looking Harry was... Well, obviously he's not Lockhart good looking of course, but I think he's definitely growing into his looks. I picture him as quite a cutie really - not handsome, but with good features.

Plus, he's had a few 'girl' experiences - so girls obviously don't find him completely repulsive! Sure, Cho only really went out with him as an attempt to get over Cedric, but I doubt she would have even gone out with him in the first place if he wasn't mildly good looking.

And, Draco's always making fun of Harry's 'foul scar' - apparently that's the only bad facial feature Harry has then, if Draco can't find anything else to occassionally make fun of instead! Therefore, Harry is a good looking young chap! :D

[mevam]

I don't picture him as being ugly or anything less than average in my mind, because Lily was attractive and James was supposed to be fairly okay-looking as well. I've always pictured Harry as being alright looking, someone who wouldn't stand out in a crowd for being exceedingly handsome like Cedric Diggory was, but also not someone as goofy looking as Neville (who stills rocks!).

[Knight Bus]

I saw the movies before I read the books so I see the actors when I read. However when I picture them from books descriptions I have never thought of any of the characters as unattractive, but JKR has only described three characters as good looking Cho,Fleur and Cedric.

[HarryPotter]

I think that Harry is a common boy... not too handsome, not too ugly... simply average...

[Picko]

I saw the movies before I read the books so I see the actors when I read. However when I picture them from books descriptions I have never thought of any of the characters as unattractive, but JKR has only described three characters as good looking Cho,Fleur and Cedric.

You can add Sirius to the list and you would be able to assume that Gilderoy Lockhart is at least handsome for a middle-aged man.

Plus, he's had a few 'girl' experiences - so girls obviously don't find him completely repulsive! Sure, Cho only really went out with him as an attempt to get over Cedric, but I doubt she would have even gone out with him in the first place if he wasn't mildly good looking.

However, he is the most famous wizard in the world and if we judge from real life senarios it's clear that he could look like the Elephant Man and young girls would still lust over him because of his profile.

[Polychrome]

You could say that, I've been trying to get a lawsuit up for ages claiming JK is using my looks for her fictional character and hasn't asked me for permission :D

Heh. I could probably argue the same for myself, and I'm a freakin' GIRL! Top it off with me being a clone of my dad who wears glasses for that matter...

And what the hey? There's a reason I draw my eyebrow the way I do. LOL

It's the reason I refuse to cosplay for any HP characters. The only character I remotely look like is a guy. :P I'll stick to my Jedi costumes for Comic con...

Well, anywho, back on topic. When I first read the books, I imagined Harry looking a lot like Enzo from ReBoot. Boyishly cute face, if a little on the skinny side. Up until Goblet of Fire, the book covers made me cringe. I mean, Mary Grandpre's color interpretations all made him look like he was wearing some really bizarre makeup!

[ilvjp]

Yes. Definitely. I wouldn't call him Sirius but definitely cute. I think Dan Radcliffe is cute in the movies too. :eyebrows:

[flucias1]

I've always pictured Harry as pretty normal looking, not startlingly handsome or modelesque. But he's not ugly either. The author makes a point of emphasizing that Harry has black, black hair and green, green eyes and that usually makes for a stunning combination. The glasses add a bit of nerd-iness to him but don't make him any less attractive, I don't think. Since his parents are so positively described, in the physical sense, I don't think Harry is unattractive in any way.

Now, Sirius.. whoo lordie! That description of 15-y.o Sirius in OOTP had me squealing like a fangirl...

At the end of the day, though, I think I'd rather have Harry's understated attractiveness than Sirius's in-yo-face good looks.

[padfootgrim]

see im weird I always saw harry as hot... well just because a)he has a british accent (and i find that very hot) b) he has a combination of green eyes and black hair c) hes pale and scrawny (yeah i have a thing for scrawny guys) and d) the nerd glasses (im a nerd)

ron wasnt hot to me... neither was draco (i always saw a peter pan looking kid) and crabe and goyle were just disgusting... snape was balding and had yellow teeth... but sirius james and lupin were really hot (especially sirius) in my mind...

hermoine was just nerdy... well until the 4th book when she shrunk her teeth.. but maybe thats cause im a girl

but i dont find daniel radcliff hot.. well besides the accent... i always though tom felton and sean biggerstaff were cuter... oh and rupert grint.. hes cute... :)

[Hogwarts Lake]

I've always thought Harry to be normal looking but leaning towards the good looking side - great green eyes, jet black hair =) And he is very charismatic so it's his personality that is extremely attractive too

Also, no matter what I do (and I am really grateful for this) I can't imagine Dan as Harry while reading the books, to me he is just not Harry Potter. Harry Potter is skinny! Like in JK's doodles ;)

[Aschenputtel]

Hi,

first at all I think it doesn´t no matter. Harry isn´t too handsome. But he is an interesting character, his looking isn´t important at all. He is a normal guy, an ordinary boy.

Please take a look at Hurricaneum´s fanart. She painted James and Severus at the Whomping Willow and I think she fits the looking of Severus and James .

http://img36.photobucket.com/albums/v109/Adelie/Grudgecopy.jpg

[Ron Lover]

I always picture him a just a normal kid. You know, not the typical look, but still cute in his own way. And I know we're supposed to leave Dan out of this, but if Harry looked like him, he's very cute then. Actually, I can't help but picture Dan and the others in the book now.

[Secretofshadows]

The more Harry gets older in the movies the more he get cuter. I think Draco is a cuttie.

[xoMelaniexo]

I've wondered about that myself actually but I'm not sure!

[Azazel]

I've always been in to the tall, thin guys. so as harry has gotten older and stuck with that general description, I've always thought of him as good looking. He is your typical case of "tall, dark, and handsome". plus, his personality only makes him more attractive. I read Roald Dahl's "Esio Trot" when i was young and he describes all beauty as coming from within, so I think harry has to be very good looking.
since my mother has blue eyes and my father has black hair, my mom used to always say she wished for a black haired, light eyed child. but no, my sibling and i all have dark hair and dark eyes. i suppose that standard of beauty has been with me since i realized i didn't live up to it. ;-)
in short, yeah, harry is a hottie, much more so than draco who is the epitome of the aryan nation.

[Duckboy]

*bangs head against wall* *repeatedly*

I am SO tired of hearing how effing "hot" harry is.

[Albusdaughter]

*bangs head against wall* *repeatedly*

I am SO tired of hearing how effing "hot" harry is.

Why not read a different thread then?!

[Classical_Wizar]

*bangs head against wall* *repeatedly*

I am SO tired of hearing how effing "hot" harry is. do i sense someone being jealous?

[Albusdaughter]

I think Harry is not conventionally good-looking age 11-15 but that anyone who knows him well thinks he is because he is so adorable. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Having said that as he grows older I think he is getting better looking. If he grows tall, like James did and stays physically fit, he has the whole messy black hair and green eyes thing going for him so he will be quite a looker by 17. But he will never be a Sirius, Lockhart or Cedric, but considering how they ended up, who'd want to be?!

[ToMsGurL]

well harry potter came to my mind as a normal looking person. i just want to also say, i live in Australia and out cover of OotP is different to the one Mr Olivander 382 showed. Ours is a pheonix and it dosen't have harry on the front. in the acctual movie he (Daniel Radcliffe) is good looking (well to me he is) and that is just my opinion, some people do and some people don't. it just depends.

[IleaFearnow]

In my mind, Harry was a normal, scruffy looking teenager. I think they did well casting Dan Radcliff as Harry because (and don't argue with me), he's nothing special. Neither is Ron, but red hair counts for something. Hermione is meant to be beautiful, but because she was seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy, the first two books make you believe she's plain and maybe even ugly. but by GoF, you see that she really is beautiful, and I think Emma Watson plays up this transition. She's turned into a really pretty girl! I wish I had looked that good when I was 14!

[Duckboy]

Why not read a different thread then?!

Because I'm talking in general, not just people in this thread.

My ex always said things like how she'd have sex with Harry (dan) in a heartbeat, and all that, and how hot he was, and how she was going to marry him and everything. And it just annoyed the **** out of me. It's AMAZING how hypocritical women are. They get all upset with a "So, you want THAT do you?" atittude whenever the guy says a girl on TV or something is hot, yet women have NO problem running the fact that they think the guy is gorgeous and would "so do him" into the ground.

[Creatively Evil]

Because I'm talking in general, not just people in this thread.

My ex always said things like how she'd have sex with Harry (dan) in a heartbeat, and all that, and how hot he was, and how she was going to marry him and everything. And it just annoyed the **** out of me. It's AMAZING how hypocritical women are. They get all upset with a "So, you want THAT do you?" atittude whenever the guy says a girl on TV or something is hot, yet women have NO problem running the fact that they think the guy is gorgeous and would "so do him" into the ground.

Wow..! I would never say that to my bf, if I had one lol. I'm getting off topic. I never thought Harry as hot, but I didn't see him as ugly either. I thought he was pretty normal, looks sorta like Dan Radcliffe.

[Dawn_Potter]

I always wanted Harry to look normal... to be honest I am fed up with the kind of story-heros who are perfect all around.
I prefere to think of Harry as a really average looking boy!

[Kaleigh]

I've never thought of Harry as exceptionally good-looking, I've always imagined him as a normal teenage boy.

I'm into more of the Sev types anyway. (long black hair, but minus the grease. :))

[mevam]

In one interview with Katie Couric over a year ago, JK Rowling tells us something about what she imagines Harry to look like:
Couric: “Does he have zits?”
Rowling: “No he doesn’t. I see Harry as someone who has great skin. That’s the one thing he’s got going for him, thank God. I mean, spots on top of everything else would be too horrible for him. And yes, he does have certain adolescent rights of passage happen to him.”


So he's got glowing skin, maybe that might add to his attraction? However, with all the hero aura flying about him, I'm surprised that more character in the story haven't taken a liking to him, besides Ginny and Cho. You'd think he'd be immensely popular and a heartthrob of some sort if he was at least remotely good looking since he has the fame and riches going for him.

[OmarGama]

I see harry as normal-looking.Looks a little nerdy with glasses.He isn't unatractive or anything.Its just in terms of looks,he's ordinary,but in terms of personality,he rocks.

that' right, I agree with you he is normal-looking.

[Darkillness]

I see him as kind of nerdy, but lately he's been growing into himself, maybe it's those hormones, lol. :p I'd like to think of him as normal looking, cause I'm tired of all the heroes being really cute. And I didn't see DR as cute until recently, I think Harry's/Dan's looks kind of grow on people, it's kind of a bizarre beauty.

[shortie]

i doubt he's great looking. maybe average. afterall, if he were really good looking, then he wouldn't have been such a loner in muggle school.

[Dark_Light]

Well... he is good looking but I think that Dan Radcliffe is cutter when he isn't like Harry (without glasses and everything). Draco in the last movie is... hum... horrible... I'm sorry Draco fans, but this is what I think.

Have fun... :D

[Grint07]

When I read the books, I always pictured Harry as attractive. I mean, it's obvious he's not ugly nor just ordinary because he's got certain traits that girls notice. Plus there's no way Cho Chang would have ever thought about going out with him if he was ugly. Just my thoughts.

[spiller]

well mabye cho wasn't very shallow
as for harry...dead sexy

[HPFreakette]

Harry...well, ever since I started reading the books, back when I was in 6th grade (am now a junior...how time flies!), I totally fell in love with Harry. He was likeable, the protagonist, and always, I assumed, cute in his own way. And now that he's older, and girls are taking notice of him, I feel that he must be pretty darn cute! I guess I always go for the kinda skinny, cute-nerdy types, so Harry would be quite a catch in my eyes!

I know this is OT for this thread, but...oh. My. God. Draco is...delectable. I could not disagree less with you, Dark_Light, dear.
:-)

Oh, and Ron...totally how I imagined him. Although...Rupert is sadly lacking in the freckles department. Tsk, tsk.

I also think Emma Watson is...almost too pretty for her role. I know that sounds kind of stupid, but you'd think a pretty thirteen-year-old would get a bit of attention, and not just in the form of dear old Ronniekins bickering with her all the time...oh, well.

[spiller]

Well, Hermione has to be pretty good-looking or else why would Krum have been so into her. He could have had any one he wanted but he chose her.

[OOmmpA]

People always say he looks like his father and wasn't his father good-looking when he was Harry's age? ......he looks good in the movies though :eyebrows:

[Samus Erin]

I think Harry must be kind of unsightly if only TWO girls are pining over him, I mean he's famous! So they must not like him because they don't think he is good looking.

That said, I always pictured him just like on the cover: a skinny no-muscle white kid who doesn't brush his hair and, on top of that, has CIRCLE-shaped glasses.

Just thinking, why do his glasses have bandages on them on the GOF cover?

[spiller]

I guess there was a part where Dudley beat him up that was left out of that book.

[springthing4]

i picture him like he looks on the cover and how he looks in the movies. i never really thought about whether he was good-looking or not...but if he was it would be because of his eyes...i love green eyes lol.

[AcrylicDrama]

I see him, because he's too skinny, as having a strong jaw and cheekbones...

So he, in my mind, would be good-looking if you paid attention, but he's certainly not the type of guy girls fawn over in the Gryffindor common room.

He's unconventionally attractive, I don't see him as being ugly by any means, but he's also definitely not heartthrob material.

[michaela]

I think he would be good looking, as when J.K Rowling saw Daniel Radcliffe, she thought that he was her Harry, and his good looking so Harry is.

[IheartLupin12]

I think Daniel Radcliffe is the perfect harry potter...I pictured him to look almost exactly like dan--some people have said hes not skinny enough etc..but he really is pretty skinny....and they do a great job with his hair and everything. I think he is a great interpretation of his description in the books.
Give that boy a few years to grow up and stop wasing his eyebrows..he is gonna be quite the cutie!

[michaela]

He already is!!!

[no1 potter fan]

He just looks normal to me.

[IheartLupin12]

yes, micheala, but if i say he is now...that makes me a petifile!

[Kelfa21]

I never imagined him being anything special...though my image of him has been tainted by those movies and Mr. Radcliff...

However...I'm a sucker for eyes...and with all of those vivid descriptions of his green eyes...I'm sure I would have fallen for him a little

[rmjoots]

I pictured Harry as a boy who was normally attractive due to his description in the book. Not "Cedric Diggory" pretty boy, but definately not unattractive. It helps that I am attracted to dark hair and British accents to men though. And Harry's glasses just make him look more sober then reckless. A happy combination of ruggedness and seriousness. It would take a girl less focused on pretty boys to notice Harry Potter''s physical features.

The way DR looks in the movie POA is essentially the perfect image of Harry in my mind. I saw the movies before the books, but the actor never matched the messy haired part til the 3rd film, Harry's overall look has now meshed completely for me. And *I* personally think Harry is good looking.

[niffler12]

Leaving Dan out of the picture.......I never really thought about it. When reading the books I always pictured something between Dan and this guy I know named Stan.(And he does look like the U.S. cover OotP Harry, weird I know.) But not untill recently did I actually(in the absence of new Potter material) start to think about how I pictured him, how he's shown on the front cover, but mostly how he's described. That black hair sticking out in all places and always untidy (mines never perfect, I could relate) and those brilliant green eyes. I've got to tell you, that contrast is really for some reason.......attractive. So, to answer your question Mr. Ollivander 382, as a female fan, yeah, he's hot. And I've got a thing for guys with british accents. To be totaly honest, it's Harry's personality that's more attractive, his physical appearance only adds to it. But all together, he's one handsome gent.

[DarkThunder]

Many people seem to say Daniel Radcliffe is good looking. The actually Harry the book describes, however, seems to be average looking.

[Devon]

I imagened Harry to be gust as the covers looked, but maybe with longer or shorter less fluffy hair than shown in the picturesand covers.
But I did imagine him rather good looking because I dont want an ugly boy racing through my mind when I wead the books...
Also he's got to be at least halfway decent looking. He went out with Cho, and went to the Yule Ball with one of the prettiest girl in his year Parvati Patil.
Not to mention... I'm a sucker for green eyes. ;-)

-Devon

[jellyjames]

I think he should be at least decent looking for girls to go ga-ga over him. I mean, no matter how famous you are, if you look a mess, no one's going to make a fool of themselves to get your attention, nor giggle like a twit when you ask them to go to the Yule Ball with you.

[crush_daniel]

I think that in the Books Harry was described as a normal looking boy & that his only appealing factor was his Scar & his green eyes.But Daniel Radcliffe is absolutely COOl!!!!!!!] :rolleyes:

[Lavender Brown]

I always imagined Harry as kind of skinny and small but now that he's sixteen I'm starting to imagine him a bit good looking. He plays quidditch which isn't really a "physical" (as in a bulking up) kind of sport, but as it is the only wizard sport, I imagine it does something for him. It doesn't really matter if he's good looking or not though, he's Harry and I'll love him anyway.

[miss7]

I think he can only get more attractive as he gets older, and less dorky. J.K Rowling has never described him as handsome, or goodlooking, but I think he has charm more than beauty. When he went out on that date with Cho, remember (I think it was Parvati and other girls, I can't remember) the girls said: "After Cedric, you could do so much better." So obviously Harry is not a heartthrob or a hottie, but he has a lot of personality and cool eyes. :)

[Kumquat]

I wouldn't describe Harry as "attractive", but not ugly either. I think his looks are pretty unusual, what with his extremely green eyes and his haircut which I imagine looks a bit like a hedgehog who's trying out the punk look. And then there's his "mean stature" as Trelawney might say. So, I don't think he fits into the traditional sense of the word "good-looking", but I do think he's got something, if that makes sense.

But I don't mind if he's ugly either. More ugly fictional characters for the people, I say.

[Albusdaughter]

The books are from Harry's pov which could explain why Harry has never been described as good-looking or otherwise.

[busy91]

I get the impression that he is just your average looking guy. They make it clear that Ron is gauky and nerdy looking, and that Cedric is handsome. They never say anything either way about Harry.

[michaela]

yes, micheala, but if i say he is now...that makes me a petifile!

No it wouldn't!!! But I get the point about his eyebrows, they are quite bad, but that is the only thing which is wrog with him, apart from that his perfect!!! :drool: :love: Sorry I'm a crazy fan!

[Gwenog Jones]

I never pictured Harry as a handsome guy. In my mind, he was a skinny kid, with messy hair and glasses. However, I don't think he would be unattractive either, especially with those green eyes. I'm a sucker for the eyes, and I think I would find Harry cute in some weird way.

[busy91]

It is kind of hard to be objective since they cast such good looking kids in the parts. They make Ron sound unattractive in the books, but it is hard to see Rupert as such.

[Mistress Lily]

In the books they made him sound unattractive(2 me).But in the movies totally cute. :love: Just like Ron in the books sound all nerdy and weird.But movies...... :drool:

[michaela]

Well I agree with you about Harry, but not Ron!

[aggiefan1206]

I would have to say he is decent looking not really hot but not ugly either. Mabe kinda cute

[Stayce]

I think he is cute. they book is a little harsher than Hollywood but then everyone is pretty in Hollywood. but ya I think he is jsut a kid and will grow up good looking.

[T_Z]

Taking off the Radcliffe image... (Which is quite hard after watching the movies that many times)...

Let's go back to the first chapter from OotP. Does the description that JKR gives there looks any handsome to you? It doesn't for me. And let's not talk about cute, since she almost states that he isn't.

[eMMy_026]

i dont know..i think he is cute..
maybe its just the whole dan radcliffe thing...who knows..

[grawp66]

Yeah, I imagine Harry as a pretty average-looking person. Daniel Radcliffe isn't a bad Harry, actually ( sorry, I'm some kind of freak and don't find DR attractive, just average looking ) except I imagine Harry's face being thinner and his hair much messier. DR's is too neat.

But all in all, I think Harry's just normal looking. I agree that he shouldn't be too handsome becasue JKR is trying to say you can be cool without amazing looks.

[starlette01350]

I agree that Harry is average looking. I think that once he spends enough time away from the Dursleys, he will fill out a bit and grow up to be handsome (assuming he lives, of course). I think the only two guys described as good-looking in the books are Sirius (pre-Azkaban) and Cedric, so maybe Harry doesn't have a lot of competition...

[Hermywormy]

Okay, I always thought of Harry as cute. Yes, this is not including Dan in my opinions. But let me explain. I know all the descirptions made him sound like a skinny little dude, but my brain doesn't cooperate. He has the personality of someone who sounds cute. Yeah, that's stupid, looks don't make the man, whatever. Plus he's the hero. I normally fall in love with the hero. No clue why. Guess I suffer from teen-heart throb sydrome. Meaning if the hero or one of the main characters is someone I really like personality wise or I feel sorry for (hard not to feel sorry for Harry), then my brain gets a cute dude.

I mean, he wasn't outstandingly hot, but he was a bit better than average. Most of the characters are just average. Just depends. Plus he has messy hair! Messy hair is sexy!

[Kelfa21]

I think so many people are drawn to him because of what he is and was capable of...but if he was just a normal boy...then his general apperance description doesnt flatter him very much.

He is skinny with, very messy hair and glasses...still, he probably has incredible eyes. Dark hair with piercing, green eyes...very captivating.

[dracosdiviner]

Do you know what Harry's parents look like?
Yes. I've even drawn a picture of how they look. Harry has his father and mother's good looks. But he has his mother's eyes and that's very important in a future book.
---From the Leaky Cauldron (Interview with JKR)

i pictured harry to be quite an average looking boy with beautiful green eyes, but maybe this quote from the interview means that he actually might be an attractive boy?

[Insanity]

Well, I love boys with messy hair and glasses. So yeah I was like WOW.

I sorta found him cute-ish, you know?

If anyone's seen Drive Me Crazy, Adrian Grenier looks great there. I sorta thought he's like him.

(By the way, I read the books before I saw Drive Me Crazy so I was just saying I thought he was that type of guy not actually Adrian himself)

I always liked the twins too. :)

[GrangerGal]

I think so. He is at least attractive. We know he looks like his father. We know that Sirius was the best looking of the Mauraders. I think that Harry is nice looking, attractive but maybe not sexy or even beautiful. But yes he does have nice features.

[Parvati]

He must be allright to get it on with Cho. But that accent in the films really put me off, not many English people actually talk like that. But he makes it up in personality and humour well sarcasticness..

[tonkscrazy]

well i like boys with mess hair .Harry for me is a guy who is sexy but has no idea that he actually is ,you know , and that makes him more sexy that he already is ;)

[_Arianna_]

I always pictured Harry as being sort of cute - in a dorky cute way. I think it's probably because his personality makes him attractive to me. I never imagined him as the school hottie or anything... but not ugly either.

[Bratanimus]

I think Harry, as described in the books, is probably a nice enough looking guy, but his eyes must make him rather striking. JK keeps talking about his green eyes. Why? I think what makes him stand out is what he's been though and the responsibility he feels, and I'd bet money if you met him you could see it in his eyes. He feels responsible for the deaths of Cedric and Sirius, and he's just learned about the prophecy about him and Voldemort. Did you ever meet (or are/were YOU) a young person who seemed much more mature than their years? Even if Harry goofs off with his friends, there's always an underlying, palpable heaviness. He is different, and he knows it. That's what makes him so striking.

So I don't think his "looks" have much to do with anything. People will be drawn to, or put off by, his energy. He is the sum of his experiences, and he has the face he has earned because of those experiences.

[luv2read]

Never really thought about whether or not he was cute. I've pictured him (in the beginning anyway) to look something like the cover of GoF, so I guess it depends on whether or not you find that look to be attractive. I'm twice the age of Harry, so I don't feel right about saying if he's cute or not. He isn't ugly. Once I saw the movies...I have to admit, I now picture Daniel Radcliffe as Harry. I will say that in the first film, I thought Daniel Radcliffe's smile was perfect for Harry. He looked so sweet and innocent...exactly as I pictured Harry.

[Jordan]

I think Harry is good looking in his own way...
There are the guys who look amazing in every girls eyes, and the are the guys who catch the attention of only few.
Harry has carm, and thats saying a lot. He is moral, and caring. He could catch any girl's heart...

[bubblesarah]

Since Harry has the type of "thing" I've always had for guys (except for the dark hair) I'd say hes sweet, normal loooking guy occasionally goofy, but.

I think Harry is good looking in his own way...
There are the guys who look amazing in every girls eyes, and the are the guys who catch the attention of only few.
Harry has carm, and thats saying a lot. He is moral, and caring. He could catch any girl's heart...

agreed

[Bratanimus]

Harry has charm, and thats saying a lot. He is moral, and caring. He could catch any girl's heart...

Very good point. The best looks in the world cannot mask a black heart (sorry, Draco), and Harry's courage and good will cannot be ignored. It's true that beauty is only skin deep.

[BluebirdTexas]

I thought Harry as rather thin, messy, but definitely cute. Good guys are always cute, because goodness in their heart brings their beauty out of them.

And since Harry looks almost extraordinarily like his father James except for eyes, he's got his mother's eyes (oh how I get excited every time I can say that :) ), and James was described good-looking and handsome, wouldn't that make Harry handsome too? But I never thought that Harry was going about model career. He's handsome, but not too handsome, so to speak.

[weasley]

I think Harry is good looking in his own way...
There are the guys who look amazing in every girls eyes, and the are the guys who catch the attention of only few.
Harry has carm, and thats saying a lot. He is moral, and caring. He could catch any girl's heart...

Too right. I don't think he looks geeky or hansome, just a normal looking person. But it's someone's personality that really makes you like them.

[Silver_Moon]

I kind of imagine Harry growing more attractive as he gets older and matures more. I don't imagine him as really good looking, but he's definitely not ugly. Just average. But I think that what he doesn't have in looks is made up for in his personality and talent.

[Miss ERB]

I dont know..I always imagine james pretty good looking..so why shouldnt harry be...

Ya I picture good looking( sort of anyway) even if hes not supposed to be lol.

[Aseldar]

I'd say that like Daniel Radcliffe, he's average.

[Dagmar]

I don't remember a description of him as being not good looking.
Messy, unkempt, sloppy maybe. But what kid isn't? Come to think of it does she describe Lilly's looks, other than her eye and hair color I mean ? But she does describe James through Harry's eyes in the "Snape's worse memory" scene. He compares James to Sirius, I get the impression that Sirrius is the looker. James is the cool sidekick.

[92grg92]

i think that because Harry is the protagonist of the story, the hero, we want him to be dashingly gorgeous even if he's not. It all depends on the person, really. Some people think some people are pretty/handsome while others do not. Some people think that Dan R. is totally hott while others think he's definately not. Theres really no way to tell right now. I personally think that both James and Harry are good-looking, but not necessarily the best-looking people in the school. It does seem that Sirius was the one with the looks out of the Marauders, but he did seem to lose his looks as he got older, didnt he? lol

[Goldberry]

I think so. James was one of the most popular kids in school, so he ought to be pretty good-looking. Maybe not to the degree of Sirius, but still attractive. And I think Daniel Radcliffe is becoming a very good-looking young man, myself (egad that is wrong coming from someone who's turning 20 next week). I think he's about the right amount of attractiveness to play Harry, at least to my way of thinking.

[hp007]

I always imagined Harry to be kinda nerdy and average looking, based on JKR's description of him. I certainly didn't imagine himself as "handsome". I mean, look at how Jo describes him: a scrawny little boy, extremely skinny, big round black glasses, oversized clothes, messy hair thats never neat and tidy...not exactly anybody's idea of "handsome", is it? :eyebrows:

[Holly is Short]

Hey! Hp007! Harry's my kind of handsome!

[niffler12]

Indeed he is, that untidy hair... the contrast of his black hair against his green eyes...athletic...intelligent...all around good guy. Forget the fact the Durselys keep him skinny or in drab baggy clothes...Harry's a HUNK! Cheers.

[waiting46]

i think harry would be pretty cute, but in the way that he doesnt know it. definitely seems to have the angsty dark and deep thing going on...hahhaah
although i have to say i dont imagine him to look like Daniel Radcliffe AT ALL! i think of harry as unusually skinny and while DR is not fat, he's just average size...and his face is two round. Having a long skinny face and being skinny all over are two main things i associate with harry's phsical appearance

ive just thought about it more and i take the 'pretty cute' back:
harry is HOT!