Hermione never wore glasses, Septima, and her parents were dentists- she had somewhat large front teeth, but they were always straight.
The only time I was really put off by an actor’s eye color was Bruno Gans portrayal of Hitler in Downfall. Yes, we’ve seen a zillion subtitled rip-offs, but Hitler was well known for his mesmerizing blue eyes. Gans has brown eyes. This was one of the better performances I have ever seen, but I would like for CGI to correct the eye pupil color.
There’s an amusing eye-colour aspect in The Osterman Weekend. Rutger Hauer (who has famously blue eyes) and his wife Meg Foster (who has astonishingly blue eyes) have a son played by Christopher Starr who has… brown eyes. I’m not sure this would be genetically possible.
Starr is Foster’s real son, incidentally, fathered by the dark-eyed Ron Starr.
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Hermione never wore glasses, Septima, and her parents were dentists- she had somewhat large front teeth, but they were always straight.
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You’re right 
No idea where the glasses game from.
However, it is explained that her parents refused to fix her teeth, because it gave her “character” - buck teeth are by definition not straight, they stand out of the mouth because they do not fit properly (ask me if I had buck teeth. Go on, ask me.)
So they may have been “straight”, as in not being twisted left or right, but they were most likely twisted forward, as in had a more horizontal angle then is ideal.
Frankly, I have no idea what her parents were thinking, since buck teeth interfere with chewing and can really screw a person up. But, well…
(this is the reason I don’t feel sorry for them when they get magicked in the last books).
I would disagree. I watched that a few months ago (after seeing all the parodies) and was amazed at his performance. As an American I think it had a lot to do with it being the first (and only) genuinely authentic, quality German production about him that I’d ever seen. I’d seen good ‘impression’ performances of Hitler, Anthony Hopkins and Alec Guiness for example, but they always spoke English. On the flip-side I don’t know how many more generations it’s going to take before an actor yelling in German won’t always sound like an evil Nazi! 
I also think that the vast majority of people today (well, Americans anyway) aren’t really cognizant of Hitler’s eye color, mostly because 99.9% of the footage of him is in B&W. Add to that the extremely positive emotional association there is (or is supposed to be) with blue eyes.
Speaking of LOTR, didn’t Orlando Bloom wear blue contacts successfully throughout the franchise? His eyes are naturally dark brown.
It could be an artifact of the light - several people in my family have eyes that change color depending on their mood and the light, and occasionally it looks like they’ve got different-colored eyes.
It’s my recollection that she did not have buck teeth but instead had large front teeth, something that couldn’t be “fixed” with Muggle dentistry. It seems pretty unlikely to me that two dentists would deny their child dental care for a problem that could be corrected.
I see that the Harry Potter Wiki article about Hermione refers to her as having large teeth that were magically shrunk, not buck teeth. It mentions that when shooting the first movie they did try out fake teeth on Emma Watson to make her look more like the description of Hermione, but this was considered impractical and abandoned.
Just a WAG, but- I’ve seen movies and TV shows where I can tell the actor is wearing contacts (i.e. I can see the contacts during closeups), and while that can be explained away as “they’re wearing contacts” if it’s a movie set in the late 20th century or modern day it’s harder to waive away if it’s set in medieval-ish alternative reality, and going through 90 zillion frames to make sure contacts aren’t visible in close-ups would probably be a major pain. People who’ve read the books already know what color their eyes are (and that this character is taller/older/younger/shorter/otherwise different from the actor playing them) and can edit it if they wish in their mind.
In the case of Daenerys on GOT, I think she does still wear colored contacts. She has very striking green-gold hazel eyes. Still very unique and it works much better for the character than purple/indigo would have.
I’ve been going to a number of Anime conventions the last few years. A lot of the cosplayers are wearing colorful contact lenses. Because I’ve been seeing them so often, I guess I was under the impression that colored contacts had somehow been made more comfortable, but reading here, I guess not.
Is there something about colored contacts that makes them harder to wear? I ask because many of the replies here talk about actors trying to wear contacts but finding it too painful to maintain episode after episode. But when I was a kid and first got contacts, it involved an hour or two of a kind of “scratching” feeling–very minor after the first minute or so–and after that, no discomfort at all. What gives?
Not exactly. Here is what she said after her teeth got jinxed, and Madame Pomfrey fixed them:
Whatever her initial tooth situation, her parents didn’t want to leave them as they were. They just wanted to fix it their way.
It’s not that easy for some people. My wife really wanted to wear contacts, and after a few months and trying a few different brands and types, she finally gave up and went back to glasses full time. So for actors who don’t wear contacts anyway, jumping directly into full day wearing while having to maintain control of your facial expressions when your eyes are itching to like crazy, is too much.
They use their face for a living. Good point! It’d be at best like putting a one pound weight on a pro tennis player’s wrist.
Ok, so I totally misunderstood the dentists/teeth/magic situation (I could have sworn her parents wouldn’t fix her teeth because that would be “cosmetic”).
At least the “braces” bit supports my “buck teeth” hypothesis - you can’t correct the size of teeth with braces, right? Only their angle?
And, speaking from experience here, if her tooth position had been only mildly off-kilter, a muggle dentist would have preferred to postpone braces until after she reached full skull size, since otherwise she would have to wear them for years and years and years to avoid the teeth popping back out. Meaning that her teeth must have been severely bucked for her to be in braces at 11.
-Septima, who was in braces for 8 years.
Yeah… which is why so many people complained when they cast the girl as his mother and still mentioned that his eyes were like hers just moments before showing her, with neither blue nor green eyes, but brown.
That quote about braces is from the 4th book, so she would have been 13-14 by then.
Only if she wears them in every picture ever taken of her.