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

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 190395

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:44 AM, June Ewing <doctorwhofan02 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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.

Just as a matter of curiosity, when did the "invisible"/white braces
come in?  Given that the books are set in the 1990s.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean56 at gmail.com>