Teeth was Re: teachers' personal lives

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190265

> Potioncat:
> I didn't say anything about Hermione having rotten teeth. SSSusan
> started out by asking why so many witches are described as having
> rotten or yellow teeth and wondered why that would be.
>
> Several posts later Geoff offered an article about British
> attitudes on elective dental care and how that compares to the
> US attitude. I brought it back to canon by discussing Hermione's
> parents who are British dentists and their opinion about adjusting
> Hermione's teeth. I don't think Hermione had braces at all, but I
> don't have the book available to check. Anyway, she was able to
> use magic, so it was done without their input.


June:
Page 352 to 353, Chapter The Yule Tide Ball, British/Canadian
version Hermione, said Ron looking sideways at her, suddenly
frowning, 'your teeth..." "What about them? " she said. Well,
they're different...I've just noticed..." "Of course they are -
Did you expect me to keep those fangs Malfoy gave me?" "No, I
mean, they're all...straight and-and normal-sized" Hermione
suddenly smiled very mischievously, and Harry noticed it too:
it was a very different smile to the one he remembered. "Well...
when I went up to Madam Pomfrey to get them shrunk, she held up a
mirror, and told me to stop her when they were back to how they
normally were,' she said. And I just...let her carry on a bit.
She smiled even more widely. "Mum and Dad won't be too pleased.
I've been trying to persuade them to let me shrink them for ages,
but they wanted me to carry on with my brace. You know they're
dentists, they just don't think teeth and magic should-look!
Pigwidgeon's back!"