In canon, they’re green humanoid monsters wearing hooded robes,
Um, what? Description from Prisoner of Azkaban, emphasis mine:
“a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, grayish, slimy-looking, and scabbed, like something dead that had decayed in water; the thing beneath the hood, whatever it was, drew a long, slow, rattling breath, as though it were trying to suck something more than air from its surroundings.”
Nowhere does it say that they are green. The best description I can think of is “flying corpses that hide their appearances,” which works pretty well as a symbol of Death.
On a tangential note, despite there being no description to that effect anywhere in them, when I read the first few books I found myself invariably imagining Snape as being purple.
So if MinnibearRex came away with the impression that some entities from the books were supposed to be some entirely different color than the author intended, he’s certainly not the only one.
Um, what? Description from Prisoner of Azkaban, emphasis mine:
Nowhere does it say that they are green. The best description I can think of is “flying corpses that hide their appearances,” which works pretty well as a symbol of Death.
On a tangential note, despite there being no description to that effect anywhere in them, when I read the first few books I found myself invariably imagining Snape as being purple.
So if MinnibearRex came away with the impression that some entities from the books were supposed to be some entirely different color than the author intended, he’s certainly not the only one.
Snape dresses somewhat similarly to Count von Count.