Hermione's teeth mystify me. If they're large and protruding enough to need correcting, why is this the first we hear of it? Wouldn't the time to mention that fact have been before the "I see no difference" scene? For me at least, Snape's hurtful remark fell competely flat because oddly enough, I'd forgotten that Hermione was introduced as having "rather large" teeth three books ago.
It's kind of hard to figure out their problem too. I mean, lots of kids have braces, and if she has an overbite that would do it. Instead it seems like they're too big, which braces wouldn't help.
It feels a little like the black female judge on the cop shows. To cast a double minority actor as the judge sounds nice and progressive, but the screentime will overwhelmingly go to the really important characters, the white male cops.
Yup, though it comes off as just eroticizing the "other" before winding up with good English girls.
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Date: 2007-07-14 08:00 pm (UTC)It's kind of hard to figure out their problem too. I mean, lots of kids have braces, and if she has an overbite that would do it. Instead it seems like they're too big, which braces wouldn't help.
It feels a little like the black female judge on the cop shows. To cast a double minority actor as the judge sounds nice and progressive, but the screentime will overwhelmingly go to the really important characters, the white male cops.
Yup, though it comes off as just eroticizing the "other" before winding up with good English girls.