[HPforGrownups] Re: Teeth, braces, and the English Language or variations thereof.

[Shelley Gardner]

No: HPFGUIDX 190333


> Your point is well taken, Geoff and I would agree under most circumstances. I do have one niggling question, though. Wouldn't Hermione have mentioned that she wore a brace or the presence of a brace on her teeth have been mentioned during the books if she was wearing one? I don't think buck teeth like Hermione's would have used merely a retainer she wore at night. So the presence of a brace on her teeth would have been noticeable and should have been mentioned. Rowling is not that poor a writer that she would leave out that detail!
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> Lynda
I disagree on that last point- Rowling has plenty of other small details 
she overlooks, and it is well known that as she wrote the later books 
she would look up some facts from previous books on the internet so she 
could try and keep things consistent, after she learned how detail 
oriented her readers were. It's not a matter of "poor writer" as much as 
juggling many balls and she dropped this small one. It's not a major 
plot point, really. Maybe she thought she had mentioned braces with 
Hermione's buck teeth before. It's such a tiny detail that is forgivable 
with respect to the story line, unlike Lupin's changes with the moon cycle.

Shelley