Teeth, braces, and the English Language or variations thereof.

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 190382

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, lynde at ... wrote:

Lynda:
> I didn't talk about my glasses extensively when I was in school, and my friends who wore glasses or braces didn't talk about them either. I've worn glasses since I was 2 years old. They're pretty much a part of me. What I was referring to by saying they would be talked about is that we were teased about our glasses and/or braces by other kids. Even today I hear kids on the playground teasing other kids about their braces or glasses. I've even had to retrieve brace (leg) for one of the kids in a class I was in when I had yard duty once. He'd put it back in his backpack to keep us from putting it back on him when he got ready to go home and then taken the backpack out with him at lunch because his lunch was in the backpack too, Back on track, my thought was that had Hermione been wearing a brace, Malfoy would have more than likely remarked on it as a part of his goading of her.

Geoff:
I tend to think that Draco made Harry his primary target for goading and Hermione
usually got drawn into it from the periphery so that anything directed towards her
was usually some sort of spinoff as a result so that braces were not the main concern.

Geoff
(writing from a sunny Toronto on his first visit to the west side of the pond.