[HPforGrownups] Re: Teeth was Re: teachers' personal lives

[Shelley Gardner]

No: HPFGUIDX 190310

June:
> You guys are both absolutely right (and my logical side said that
> to me when I first read it) however, I decided in my mind that
> somehow while they were being shrunk the spell moved the teeth
> and straightened them or the braces had done most of it and she
> was close to having them off anyway. Either that or Hermione is
> leaving out the fact that she did some straightening magically
> herself or told Madam Pomfrey that the spell she was hit with also
> knocked her teeth crooked.
Shelley:
In my mind, the scene goes like this:
Hermione walks into the infirmary, huge teeth immediately giving away 
the problem. Madam Pomfrey hands Hermione the mirror while she gets out 
her wand and points it as Hermione's face. She tells Hermione to signal 
when they are back to normal, and Hermione lets them shrink to what she 
thought looked like a proper size. Then Pomfrey stands back and says 
"Dear Child, that's still not quite right!" and then proceeded to use a 
different spell- a straightening spell- to finish fixing Hermione's 
teeth. Pomfrey would have no way of knowing what they looked like 
before, but she knows what result she would be happy everyone seeing. 
It's her reputation on the line here, and she doesn't want Hermione 
walking out the door with crooked teeth and have everyone think she's a 
poor healer.

Reminds me of my sister in our teen years, who was in a car accident and 
needed a million stitches on her face. (I'm exagggerating, but the final 
count ended up being over 200.) They called in a plastic surgeon, who 
instead of just slapping down some sloppy stitches as any normal doctor 
would have done, did a wonderful job and gave my sister a really cute 
new nose to go with it. Hers was large and crooked beforehand, but this 
reset of the broken nose was this plastic surgeon's reputation on the 
line, and so the new nose is absolutely perfect and adorably cute. I can 
totally imagine Pomfrey wanting Hermione's teeth to be her walking 
advertisement to the other kids of "go to Pomfrey, she will fix you 
better than new again".

Imagine the horror later for the "Snitch" that Pomfrey couldn't fix 
because it was a curse rather than a hex, but that's a different subject 
matter entirely!

Shelley