Hermione's Prettiness: was Gender balance

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 14959

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Sofie 'Melle' Werkers" <minerva at f...> 
wrote:
> <<Hermione is good at *lots* besides school.  Besides, her being so 
good at 
> school is itself against stereotype, >>
> <snip>
> 
> Also, Hermione is't pretty. She has bushy hair and big teeth so she 
isn't 
> the 'Cinderella' type of female character, either. You know what I 
mean, 
> right, the kind of smart, bookish, non-attractive girl who is 
transformed 
> into some sort of vamp because a boy/man decides to notice her 
and 'clean 
> her up'.


She's pretty now.

She had her teeth minimized after a misfired curse got her and gave 
her superlong chipmunk teeth.

She let Madam Pomfrey reduce them to a much more fetching size, by 
not telling her to stop reducing her teeth when they were at their 
original size, but only saying "okay now" when they were at a size 
Hermione considered more agreeable.

And Hermione can have non-bushy hair as she showed at the Yule dance 
when she dolled up.  She just said it's too much of a pain in the 
neck to do that every day.  

So she is conscious of her appearance, and changes it on her own 
terms, if and when she sees fit. But her education still takes front 
seat.

Attagirl, Hermione!


Indigo
[who got dreadlocks to do away with the bad hair days because a 
relaxer every three weeks is TOO EXPENSIVE and too much of a pain to 
set every night]