To those who are commenting about Dan’s hair, I agree. It was best in POA and GOF. The cut he is sporting nowadays (which we were first unfortunate enough to gaze upon in OOTP), is revolting in comparison.

I can only assume it was done to make it easier to maintain, but for goodness sake, grow it out again Dan. Bring back the old hair for Deathly Hallows. ^_

Aw, that’s a shame that OOtP didn’t win but I bet the other two films were really good as well (I still need to see them).

Dan is a lot taller than I am; I bet I would come up to Daniel Day Lewis’s elbow or something, hehe. ;)

hi i am a big fan of harry potter and the fifth movie of harry potter is brillant and great to see.

Is anyone listening to Radio 1 at the minute? They have a clip of Dan from the BAFTAs, it’s absolutely HILARIOUS, he’s talking so fast that he makes no sense whatsoever because he’s really excited!

On the topic of hair – as some of us Snape fans have been commenting in other threads, it’s great to see that his new wig is longer for HBP! :)

As for Harry, I know some of you like it short, but I would say that around 90% of the fans commenting in HP forums, etc., hate it short. Here’s something I found “explaining” the yukky short hair. It makes no sense at all – long hair makes him look boyish?? Uh, Sirius, Dumbledore, Lucius, & Snape, etc., have long hair, & none of them look boyish to me!!!! With that attitude, it’s a miracle that Snape now has longer hair – I sure hope no one ever decides that Snape’s hair should be shorter!!!!!

Source: Newsweek, 2nd October 2006

Colin Jamison, hair designer in the Harry Potter movies, comments on Harry’s new look for the fifth installment:

Meanwhile, girls around the globe will note in these exclusive first-look photos of "Phoenix" that Radcliffe, 17, has short hair again after growing his locks for the last film.

"The longer hair made him look boyish," says the film's hair designer, Colin Jamison. "We needed to progress him in age. He's older now, and looks more handsome with the shorter hair."

Radcliffe is happy to be done with the mop, too. "It looks great at the end of the fourth film, with sweat and blood matted into it, but we can't have every scene like that," he says, laughing. "And I like to imagine that Harry went home over the summer, angry, and chopped into it himself."

So this Colin Jamison is the reason Dan looks like a nerd in OotP. The character’s hair is not short. Did he even read the book?

i loved how dan looked at the awards show. he is cute, charming and shorty in front of dan-day lewis

Dan looks as cute as ever, tho a littled peaked. Maybe they’re working him too hard?

Daniel day Lewis looks awfully like book-Snape to me, a curtain of dark, greasy hair. Agree with the writer who said he’d be great as Greyback!

awwww, I have to say it. So cute, so teensy next to DDL!

but you know, as someone who saw Equus, I agree with one of the Equus reviewers who described Dan’s frame as ‘diminutive but perfectly formed’! :D

haha Keith, I’ve just read your post about Dan’s response to what he was wearing. That’s priceless!

Hi Rachel – yeah, dumb, isn’t it? All the boys had shorter hair in OotP – GOF had a different hair designer, “obviously.” LOL HBP has a different hair person also, but for some reason they decided to keep Harry’s hair short – someone must have gotten into Snape’s potions! LOL

And why should a hair designer (or even a director) get to decide what a character looks like? Especially when they’ve looked a certain way in 4 previous films & their appearance is clearly described in the books the films are based on?? JKR obviously likes long hair – that’s why her fantasy world is full of wizards with long hair!

On the hair thing, I too preferred POA out of all of them, much more like I imagine in the books. I wasn’t at all keen on GOF. I don’t think Harry’s hair is necessarily meant to be long (except in DH when it is described as shoulder length), it’s just messy. The designers should still have been able to make his hair messy for the films. That can’t be so difficult can it?

I do hope they give him the rugged ‘sleeping rough’ look, stubble and long hair for the DH film.

Omg i watched the BAFTA’s last night and LMFAO Daniel Radcliffe’s speach when he was presenting an award to Michael Balkan was utterly terrible, he’s the worst actor in the world, he can’t even read a speach from a monitor without sounding stupid! and he’s so odd looking now! My mum was laughing at him and all lol. And Daniel-Day Lewis slagged him when he got his award haha it was great, saying his kids wouldn’t take him seriously anymore after being in pictures with Daniel Radcliffe. Speaking of Daniel Day-Lewis, omg i really want to see “There will be Blood” now, it looks amazing, Daniel Day-lewis and Pual Dano are such good actors! like amazing! Anyways, Dan Radcliffe has totally ruinied the Harry Potter books for me coz of his terrible, terrible acting. I’m actually angry at the producers for keeping Daniel, they should have replaced him after Prisoner of Azkaban. If Deathly Hallows is ruined by Daniels acting i may have to kill someone lol. I will also have to kill someone if Mike Newell or David Yates directs Deathly Hallows coz they were crap directors and Yates left out sooo much and there was not character development in OOTP! BRING BACK ALFOSO CUORAN, He’s the best director ever!!! He presented an award at the Bafta’s last night too and I nearly jumped up and down with joy when he came on stage. My mum thought i was crazy haha i was like pointing at the tv going “OH MY GOD ITS ALFONSO CUARAN!!! BEST DIRECTOR EVER!! haha

Anne: Thanks for saying that POA was the best and more like the books then any of the other films. I 100% agree, I love Alfonso Cuaron, he’s by far the best HP director. Although i dissagree on the hair thing. They ruined Harry’s hair and Nevilles hair in OOTP. Their hair was the best in POA. Why did Mike Newell have a sudden urge to make everyone grow their hair. It was really weird. Like every single male character had longer hair in GOF, Harry, Neville, the twins, Ron. It was totally mad! Altough Harry’s hair must be shoulder legnth for DH or it’ll ruin the illusion that they were camping for months. But Dan Radcliffe would look creepy with shoulder length hair, i mean he’s already short, long hair would make him look like a dwarf lol.

Kerrie, take your ritalin, please. No need to be nasty, by the way. I think you misunderstood what Day-Lewis said…what a surprise.

Okey dokey, wasn’t trying to be nasty just giving my opinion. I’ve never seen December boys or Equus so maybe Dan Radcliffe is a good actor in them i dont know, but in Harry Potter and My Boy Jack in my opinon he was truely awfull. You can understand how someone would be annoyed if their favorite books were ruinied by bad movies right? Oh well…just my opinion, i know a few people who think OOTP is great but the majority of people i know think it was dissapointing.