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

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190389

Lynde:
> I am curious at different posters views of Hermione's dental
issues--buck teeth, crooked teeth, crowded mouth...I only remember
her teeth being mentioned twice (there are probably more times) One
> is when Harry first meets her ....

> Geoff:
> The PS reference is as follows:

> 'She had a bossy sort of voice, lots of bushy brown hair and
> rather large front teeth.'

> (PS "The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters" p.79UK
> edition)


June:
The description Geoff gave is exact and people tend to think when
they hear large front teeth, buck and crooked etc. That is because
when your teeth are sticking out (buck or over bite) it is because
they don't have the room to be in your mouth properly and they appear
to be large. If you look at pictures of me when I was Hermione's age
and younger, I look like a close relation of Bugs Bunny lol. Now that
my teeth have been fixed they don't look big any more.