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Re: This Description

annafora
2006-06-26 09:44 am UTC (link)

"Harry was not handsome, but the vivid green eyes fringed with coal-black lashes were startling, and the gentleness in them lent unlikely grace to a face that otherwise would have been too thin and angular to be endearing. But it was, and he was, and Ron couldn’t even hate him for this, which was, out of all of it, probably the worst part..."

"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin . . ."

I think you're reaching, tbh. The main similarites are that they have green eyes and black hair, which is hardly determined by CC (Harry is described in this way, yes? I am not very up on HP). The five beginning words are the same. Not nearly good enough to cry plagiarism. Look and feel is similar in some ways, but I think this might be a case of expectations driving conclusions.

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	Re: This Description (Anonymous) 2006-06-26 02:17 pm UTC (link)
	Nope, I don't think it's plagiarism. It just goes to show that all her best ideas are taken from someone else. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: This Description (Anonymous) 2006-06-26 05:10 pm UTC (link)
	The rest of the description comes from Mitchell's description of Melanie Wilkes later in the book. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: This Description annafora 2006-06-26 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	quote away, mousie (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: This Description (Anonymous) 2006-06-26 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	She paraphrases; do you want the whole thing? Crap, here's a link. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-4361905-1680058?ie=UTF8&asin=0446365386) That description is bugging me; it's so typical of Mitchell, but it might be about Ellen Robillard as well. Now I'm going to have to go read the whole book again. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: This Description (Anonymous) 2006-07-01 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	I honestly have to say that I don't think this is gacking either. I'm not such a fan of CC but even I wouldn't go as far as to say that she's stolen this description. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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