Fear the grime, not the Grim! -DDs finger nails

[Diana]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Gretchen Crumpacker 
<gcrumpac at p...> wrote:
> Saw the movie this morning for the first time . . . yah, it was 
sure grittier.  Dumbledore's fingernails did bug me.  Bob Dylan was 
wearing his nails the same way (long, nasty & yellow) in the mid to 
late '70s.  Perhaps it's some weird Dylan tribute?  He's the only 
guy I've ever seen wear his nails that way apart from the new 
Dumbledore.
 

I was a bit startled when I saw Dumbledore's long, yellow (and 
dirty) nails, but then a thought occured to me... Dumbledore is a 
genius, or at least we're told several times that he's the 
greatest/most powerful wizard of his time.  A lot of extremely smart 
people don't concern themselves with issues of physical appearance.  
I can remember a documentary about geniuses I'd watched a few years 
ago and there was one super-smart guy who only had a couple 
different outfits, but both in triplicate so he didn't have to think 
at all about putting an outfit together, I think it might have been 
Albert Einstein.  
Proper nail care may be something Dumbledore just doesn't think 
about because he's so busy thinking about too many other more 
important things, such as running the school, the Order of the 
Phoenix, answering Fudge's many owls and, of course, protecting 
Harry from Voldemort.  For all we know, he might magically trim his 
nails and just be too pre-occupied to remember to do it more than 
every six months.    

Diana L.
dianasdolls