Gorgeous Granger

[dfrankis at dial.pipex.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20799

Amy Z wrote:
 The 
> transformation is mostly in Harry's and Ron's perceptions (and 
> everyone else's--Pansy, Draco, everyone's a little stunned to see 
how 
> pretty Hermione is).  It's still the Cinderella formula--all 
> Cinderella needed was a bath and some nice clothes, right?
> 
> Amy Z
> 
'Me Too' to everything snipped.  However, I think that a large part, 
if not most, of the reaction of people generally was that Hermione 
had landed Krum.  Viktor, of course, gets his just reward for 
noticing Hermione is a girl *before* her makeover.

Draco is a different matter, and we await developments with 
interest.  He is strangely silent, not just at the time but also 
later when people tease Hermione about being Krum's sorely-missed one.

Although the transformation thing is a literary (and Hollywood) 
cliche, it has happened to me in real life enough to find it 
believable.

David, who used to feel insecure at school when people had their hair 
cut, in case they'd changed inside.