Plum Velvet Suit

[Carol]

Catlady wrote: 
> By the way, Carol, do we know that there is a temporary and reversible
> beard-removal and hair-shortening spell? Is there canon that wizards'
> hair is not just as resistant to magic as the misshapen lenses (and
> corneas?) of wizards' eyes.

Carol responds:
Well, Harry restored his cut hair to its normal length as a child with
accidental magic, so I assume that there's some comparable controlled
spell. We also have aging potions that can, when combined with some
spell of Dumbledore's relating to an age line, instantly create a
beard. I also assume (though there's no proof of it) that most male
wizards routinely use a spell rather than a razor like the one harry
got for his seventeenth birthday (and never used, to my knowledge) to
shave every morning. It seems more likely that Witches and Wizards who
peel potatoes (and satsumas) using magic would cut their hair with
magic rather than using scissors or a razor of some sort (speculation,
I realize). And appearance can certainly be changed using magic, not
just through Polyjuice (or Metamorphmgic) but through Transfiguration
such as Hermione used on Ron in DH to disguise him as "Dragomir
Sespard." She makes his hair long and wavy; gives him a thick brown
beard, mustache, and eyebrows; removes his freckles; and shortens and
broadens his nose (DH Am. ed. 523). If Hermione can do that, DD can
certainly vanish his beard, shorten his hair, and magically restore
his appearance to normal when he's finished.

Carol, who suspects that Snape magically keeps his hair the same
length and never visits a barber