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Amber Benson by Luigi Novi (promoting Serpent's Storm on 2011, March 5th, at Midtown Comics Downtown) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:3.5.11AmberBensonByLuigiNovi1.png

I've always thought that Amber Benson (who played Tara Maclay on Buffy) was a look alike for young Albus. Her natural hair colour is actually auburn - brown with red hues. She is tall and willowy in built, with a long and slender face and features, except her eyes is more gray-blue than bright blue. Amber Benson is like, "beautiful in a bookish way":

( 63!Albus )

Her character's storyline in Buffy also have some parallel, albeit with the significant difference of her Family Burden being a family that was actually evil-controlling (keeping the family witches under the control of the patriarch with lies) instead of understandably needy controlling (need Albus to be home caring for Ariana). Tara's tragic romance was that the witch she fell in love with, Willow, was power-hungry and controlling, possessive of Tara as the object of affection to the point where Willow actually wiped Tara's memory of the fight they were having over Willow's overkill of power-use! I can't remember if she actually did it, but at one point, Willow suggest that they could look for Dawn easier if she could temporary spell everyone who was not in Dawn's age group to a different dimension.

...and then even if you are not a Buffy fan, you might know what happened next - Tara reconciled with Willow just in time to join the Dead Gays Club, something which drove Willow fully to the dark side, outrage ensued. Frankly, I wish they had gotten the Buffy-Angel treatment instead - eternally starcrossed due to one partner's evil baggage.

ETA ( I'm Under Your Spell )