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

[June Ewing]

> 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
> 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. <snip> 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.


June:
Then you have a point except for one thing. The new braces blend
in with the teeth and you can't see them, in face I had a friend
who wears them and I didn't know she had them until she said some
thing about them one day.  You can get the old braces still and
they are cheaper than the white ones but I would guess that being
dentists, Hermione's parents would have gotten her the white ones.
And of course as I have said before, it also depends how far she
was into getting the braces. If she was in the beginning stages
then it is likely that she didn't even have them on yet.

> 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.

June
You have a very good point there, Geoff.
(Welcome to Toronto, how are you liking it here?)