one of the things that puzzles me about the HP poster though, is that they've made emma's face more 'smooth' and applied more makeup in the old poster. And they've also made her hair thicker in the old poster... with the stronger colores in the old poster it looks more real then the new one.

Ick. Period. No matter what they did to anyone: ick! Leave people well alone! 

Who you gonna be if you can't be yourself,
you can't get it from t.v., you can't force it on
anybody else.-- Ani Difranco

One would think that since the HP movies are for CHILDREN that advertisers and poster-makers and the like would be, if anything, considering SHRINKING Hermione's bust. 

This is pretty disgusting.

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I don't know why breast size is equated with "sexiness."

I've seen some gorgeous women with tiny breasts and they have a sleek sexiness about them that I find very attractive (Keira Knightley and Cate Blanchett are just two very fine examples :-) )!

I pray that there will come a day when people will accept more diversity when it comes to beauty. Personally, I love variety and my eye is drawn to confident women with unique looks. I could not imagine looking out at a crowd of "cookie cutter" women with identical looks defined by society's concept of "ideal beauty." 

I totally agree with you, Heartsease. Are women with big boobs more attractive and sexier because their chest size? I don't get it... (It all goes south after a certain age.) Don't tell me Hollywood is plotting to have women look like Barbies. I thought that was Hugh Heffner's "job".

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." (Dr. Seuss)

ugh.

You have to admit though, big boobs are nice.

Not that I advocate the photoshopping of people's bust, but really. Stop hating.

There's no "hating" (not on my part).

I just want people to accept women as they are and...
I don't want women to feel they need to fit some "ideal" image.

As I mentioned in my earlier post...I can delight in the variety of "looks."

Some gorgeous women are small and sleek...
Others have luscious curves...
Well...
You get the idea. 
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I absolutely LOATHED "Goblet of Fire" (the 4th Potter movie) for many reasons, but mainly because of what they did to Hermione, Potter's nearly maternal, chops-busting, intellectually nerdy, not-so-pretty friend. Hermione kicks ass because while she was very caring and considerate of Harry, she never failed to tell him when he's being a dick, as well as being a very capable "DA" member, and STILL having the time to ace all of her classes. Readers love Hermione exactly the way Rowling has created her -- why the HELL objectify an adolescent? Honestly, it's made me really uncomfortable to see Hermione so sexualized. Even by the sixth book, Hermione is still a kid in the sexual sense. I understand that with “The O.C.” and all other tv shows, the wider public wants to see more T&A from pre-teens, but this is a book adaptation, and while they should have creative leeway to adapt it as they see fit, objectifying the strongest female character is a cheap, sad, pathetic blow.