[HPforGrownups] yellow teeth...

[Jessica Powell]

No: HPFGUIDX 31156

--- christine breen <kokobreen at juno.com> wrote:
> Why did Rowling go out of her way to mention that
> both Snape and Karkaroff
> have yellow teeth?  Do yellow teeth seem more
> menacing?  I know coffe and
> smoking can stain teeth, so I'm going to assume
> something about being a
> death eater has stained their teeth yellow. 
> Drinking potions?  Do
> polyjuice potions stain teeth?  Are we to assume
> that since yellow teeth
> was mentioned with Snape and Karkaroff, and they
> were both DEs, that
> anyone with yellow teeth is/was a DE?  Maybe it's a
> time delayed
> curst--when someone leaves Voldemort and ceases to
> be a DE their teeth
> turn yellow?  Who knows.
> Christine
> 
I don't think that JKR's purpose behind this was to
tie all the death eaters together, but to illustrate
their overall "yuckyness" and unpleasantness. Like in
the short story , "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte
Perkins Gilman. The entire piece revolves around the
repugnent color and uses it to illustrate depression,
isolation, fear, sickness, insanity, and ultimately in
death. 

I think JKR is using yellow to illustrate how
miserable both Karkaroff and Snape are, and in the
case if Serius, the description of Serius' teeth comes
from Harry's POV before he finds out that Serius is
good. 

So, to make a loong story short, I think it is not an
indicator of guilt or a commonality among DE's but 
JKR's awesome ability to illustrate her characters in
a subtle, yet dynamic manner.









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