Why Grindelwald's Eyes Are Different Colours - Harry Potter Theory

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Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. In this video, we’re going to be discussing none other than Gellert Grindelwald. Grindelwald terrorized the wizarding world for years and he was one of the darkest and most powerful wizards of all time. While he does show up in the Deathly Hallows film (briefly) - the first time we see him properly is on screen in the Fantastic Beasts films. Played by Johnny Depp, Grindelwald has quite an interesting look, and when the actor was preparing for the role he is reported to have expressed that people kept asking him if he was “ok”. He has spiky pale blonde hair that shoots straight up, extremely pale milky-coloured skin, a blonde moustache (half of the time), and perhaps most notable of all- two different coloured yes.

The condition of having two different coloured eyes also exists in the muggle world and is called heterochromia. Heterochromia refers to a variation in colour, and when it refers to the eye specifically it’s called heterochromia iridium. It basically means that one iris is a different colour from the other. But, provided that the Harry Potter universe is a world rich with magic, I’m hoping that there’s more of an interesting explanation than that.

Now, in my quest to figure out why on earth Grindelwald has differently coloured eyes, I started to think about other characters that also have special traits in the ocular region. The first character that comes to my mind when I think of ‘wonky’ eyes is none other than Mad-Eye Moody, and the clue there that he has an unusual eye is in his name. It’s in plain sight. (dad joke)

From the Order of the Phoenix:

“Mad-Eye Moody, who had long grizzled grey hair and a large chunk missing from his nose, was squinting suspiciously at Harry through his mismatched eyes. One eye was small, dark and beady, the other large, round and electric blue – the magical eye that could see through walls, doors and the back of Moody’s own head.”

Moody’s eye definitely provides a certain level of shock value, but, Moody didn’t always have one magical eye, once upon a time Moody actually had two matching regular eyes- just like the rest of us.

From the Goblet of Fire:

“Mad-Eye Moody was sitting there – though there was a very noticeable difference in his appearance. He did not have his magical eye, but two normal ones.”
However, Moody’s ‘magical’ eye, though quite functional, definitely doesn’t appear to resemble an ordinary eye in any way. It sort of looks like a botched job, and given that Moody got his magical eye many many years after Grindelwald’s time, I can’t imagine that Grindelwald’s eye is artificial in any way. It looks too natural, and while I didn’t think that it was artificial anyway, it’s good to cross that option off of the list.

One theory that I have for Grindelwald’s multi-coloured eyes is that it is somehow linked to him being a seer. In Harry Potter, a seer, as defined the magical world is “a gifted wizard or witch who has the ability to see into the future with their Inner Eye. Seers predict prophecies, which are then recorded and stored in the Hall of Prophecy in the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries.”

When we hear ‘seer’ we most commonly think of Professor Sybill Trelawney, a british half-blood witch that worked at Hogwarts and came from a long line of ‘seers’. She famously predicted the prophecy concerning Voldemort and the ‘one with the power to vanquish him’, and though she gets a bad rap as a seer, she has actually been proven to be quite accurate. Minerva McGonagall was quite open about her skepticism surrounding Trelawney and her abilities as a seer, and once expressed that ‘true’ seers are extremely rare. By ‘true’ I think she means seers that are able to see visions intentionally, when they want to, rather than in the sporadic way that Trelawney functions. And it just so happens that Grindelwald could do this.

From the Fantastic Beasts Screenplay:

“Grindelwald exhales vapor from a glowing skull-shaped hookah. His acolytes watch as the smoke forms a vision of the Obscurus, a swirl of black and flashing red, then resolves into an image of Credence”

So, what does being a seer have to do with Grindelwald’s eyes?

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