ITA--the scenario appeals to me greatly if we're talking about Dark!Fic. But in the books? I just can't see it being handled with that kind of delicacy...
The whole idea of shining eyes reminds me of a story I read once about someone having dinner with Tennessee Williams and his sister--Rose, is it? The one who was mentally ill. The person talked about her eyes showing that...you wouldn't really want to meet her gaze because you could see it in there.
In a way JKR seems to sometimes give Draco the scariest eyes in the HPverse. I mean, Voldemort's are red so obviously more overtly terrifying, and Sirius' are haunted. But glittering eyes are so freaky. I think I read once that people almost unconsciously react differently to them because a) dark eyes give the illusion of dialated pupils, which indicates interest and b) they give the illusion of depth so you feel like there's something in there. Light eyes, like Draco's, seem more flat. Personally, I've always found light-colored eyes the more potentially frightening. If Snape's eyes glitter there's still depth, like "going into a tunnel." Draco's eyes seem more like an animal's sometimes.
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The whole idea of shining eyes reminds me of a story I read once about someone having dinner with Tennessee Williams and his sister--Rose, is it? The one who was mentally ill. The person talked about her eyes showing that...you wouldn't really want to meet her gaze because you could see it in there.
In a way JKR seems to sometimes give Draco the scariest eyes in the HPverse. I mean, Voldemort's are red so obviously more overtly terrifying, and Sirius' are haunted. But glittering eyes are so freaky. I think I read once that people almost unconsciously react differently to them because a) dark eyes give the illusion of dialated pupils, which indicates interest and b) they give the illusion of depth so you feel like there's something in there. Light eyes, like Draco's, seem more flat. Personally, I've always found light-colored eyes the more potentially frightening. If Snape's eyes glitter there's still depth, like "going into a tunnel." Draco's eyes seem more like an animal's sometimes.