Teeth was Re: teachers' personal lives

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190318

> 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". <snip>


June:
Good one Shelley, that is the best explanation I have seen and it
makes total sense. I am willing to go with that one.