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I see no difference

Summary:

Wizards and witches have different ideas about how they age, and their image as they do so (Malfoy Snr's hair aside). Here an older Hermione is unexpectedly confronted by this realisation.

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I blame Lucy_S, who knows why.

Originally posted in 2016 for GS100's Moustache challenge. Set in Hogwarts, if you squint.

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Hermione held up a hand mirror, peering at her upper lip. Severus walked in unnoticed.

"What on earth is the problem, woman? One of the dunderheads hex your nose?"

Hermione jumped, then turned to him, resolutely.

"Severus, tell me honestly," she stuck her chin out at him. "Am I growing a moustache?"

He sat down, exasperatedly. "What is it with witches of a Certain Age? As if it wasn't bad enough having Pomona asking for something to improve the whiskers on her wart, or Irma--"

He checked himself at her wide-eyed look. "So you're not trying to grow one, then?"