other costumes (leaving Snape by the wayside)

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Catherine Keegan <keegan at m...> wrote:
> 
> I understand putting the kids into muggle clothes.  It would 
probably be 
> easier all the way around - especially if the kids came from any 
kind of 
> "mixed" family.
> 
> She didn't do a bad job, she just didn't do a great one.  I did 
love the 
> over robe/caftan things they stuck the kids into.  Hated the 
traffic cone 
> hats.  No wonder no one ever wears them except when required.
> 
> I look forward to seeing next year's film and a younger Dumbledore 
striding 
> about.  


Some of the kids are seen in the traffic cones in almost every Great 
Hall scene- but nowhere else and never any of the majors.

 Other costume-related things I noticed;

-Hufflepuffs and Slytherins are very hard to tell apart- the 
green/gray and blue/white house colors look very similar from a 
distance.

-Very few Ravenclaws can be seen milling around in the background- I 
was looking for non red- or blue/green (see above) scarves in every 
crowd scene last time, and saw none.

-What happens to the black ties and all-gray sweaters? Are they worn 
once and done away with or are they magically turned into house 
colors? (They missed a potentially cool special effect here, imho)

-All the boys wear long trousers with their uniforms. This points to 
the muggle-uniform-under-open-robes policy having been adopted well 
after Riddle and Hagrid's time- had they done so in the 1950s or 
earlier the younger boys would be in shorts and kneesocks. Since 
wizards seem to adopt a Muggle practice once, fix it's shortcomings 
(sorry) magically, and leave it at that, they probably still would 
be.