Crooked/hooked noses

[Carol Bainbridge]

No: HPFGUIDX 44606

As long as we're creating wild speculations, would anyone care to try their 
hand with the meaning of all the hooked and crooked noses?  I looked in the 
archives and didn't see anything there.  Maybe JKR just likes to write 
about hooked and crooked noses.  Snape has a hooked nose.  Dumbledore has a 
very crooked nose.  Krum has a hooked nose.  I can't remember if anyone 
else does.  With the first two characters, JKR draws our attention to the 
shape of the noses all the time.  Dumbledore is always looking down his 
very crooked nose.  Snape's nose shape is referred to equally often.  It 
may mean absolutely nothing at all, but it just struck me last night as I 
was reading CoS for the umpteenth time.  'Course, maybe I just think it's 
mentioned a lot because I've read the books so many times.

Carol Bainbridge
(kaityf at jorsm.com)

http://www.lcag.org