Teeth was Re: teachers' personal lives

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190297


> Potioncat:
> Good catch. I recalled it that they were waiting to apply braces,
not that she already had them. Why did JKR wait for 352 pages to
tell us that Herminione was wearing braces? And then, just as they
> were off?

> Shelley now:
> <snip> Frankly, I took this passage to mean that Rowling hadn't
done her homework when mentioning the dental care- either she had
intended Hermione to currently have braces on her teeth already,
or maybe she was envisioning a retainer or device that comes out
of the mouth, which wouldn't correct the buck or big teeth at all.
It's really hard to know what was in her mind when she writes
> mistakes or inconsistencies that appear in the book.


June:
I seriously doubt that it was a mistake, but even if it was (doubt
that) she still wrote that as I wrote it, it is quoted directly
from the book and therefore Hermione had braces and your claim that
it was an error in the book does not change that fact.