House of Gaunt

And...my last submission for the Half Blood Prince celebration! [link] (scroll down past the "character bonanza".)

Here is a scene from Chapter 10, "The House of Gaunt." Bob Ogden travels to the hovel in which live the family Gaunt, to inquire about an attack by Morfin Gaunt on a local Muggle...indeed on Voldemort's Muggle father.

Morfin drops from a tree, wand and knife in hand. Bob Ogen, "expertly" garbed in Muggle clothing, his wand also drawn, looks at the man in startled disgust.

For this I tried to emulate the men's styles of the time, which I partly succeeded at for Ogden. (Morfin's matted, filthy hair was much easier, though the rags of a robe weren't so easy.) The Gaunts' home is set back within the roots of a cpse of trees, and the entire area is dark and dingy.

I was fascinated by the story of the Gaunts, and have been wanting to draw this scene for a while now. The contest was the perfect opportunity!

P.S. - The color might be off...maybe too light are dark or unsaturated. It's tough on some pictures to figure the right kind of lighting because my LCD monitor is very bright. : P

Edit: It won! Yay! Thanks! [link] The other awesome entries are there, too.

#97 on my Harry Potter 100 Themes challenge found here: [link]