15 Things In Harry Potter That Don't Make Sense

6. Harry Doesn't Have His Mother's Eyes

All throughout his time at Hogwarts, Harry looked very much like his father, James. In Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry thinks it's his dad casting his patronus rather than the time-turned version of himself, and in Half-Blood Prince, Professor Slughorn remarks on the striking resemblance between the two.

Except for the eyes, of course. Even more so than looking like James, Harry was always told he had Lily's eyes. This was one of the reasons Snape was able to stay loyal to the boy who lived, because he could see something of his beloved Lily in him.

Except, he didn't have his mother's eyes in the movies at all. Though Harry is explicitly described as having green eyes in the book, Daniel Radcliffe is blue eyed. With CGI not quite where it needed to be at the time, and the young actor apparently having a bad reaction to trying contact lenses, the character's eyes were kept blue.

This wouldn't have been a problem had they just cast Lily Potter as having similar eyes to Daniel Radcliffe. Instead however, they bizarrely chose an actress with brown eyes. This completely nullifies the important concept of them having the same eyes that follows through the entire story, and is doubly nonsensical because in any situation, Lily's eyes were supposed to be green, not brown.

If they weren't bothered about keeping the colour true to the books, why not simply cast a blue-eyed actress? For such a pivotal part of Harry and Snape's dynamic, surely the attention to detail should have been better than this.