Harry's clothes

[heathernmoore]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Tara <taradiane at y...> wrote:
> 
> > I have a question regarding Harry's wardrobe throughout the movie. 
> > We all know from canon that Harry gets stuck with Dudley's oversize
> > hand-me-downs.  In the movie, however, once he gets to Hogwarts, 
> > he's got some nice fitting khaki's, jammies, and a red sweater 
> > (which I don't believe is the Weasley sweater).  Um, where did he 
> > get the new threads?  And for that matter, does it ever state in 
> > the book whether or not he continues to wear Dudley's clothes while
> > at school?
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the new clothes are his school uniform that he 
> bought at Diagon Alley with his other school supplies. In the movie, 
> we didn't see him buying his uniform, so we can guess that Madam 
> Malkin saw the condition of his Muggle clothes and wisely added 
> underwear, socks, and jammies to his puchases. 
> 
> In the book, the school uniform was the robes that we saw him buy (in 
> the scene where he first met Draco) and the uniform robes were a 
> complete garment, like a monk's robe or a caftan or such, so no 
> Muggle outer clothes were worn at school (except shoes (trainers = 
> sneakers) and socks). Now that you mention it, I fear that Harry had 
> to wear Dudley's cast-off shoes, socks, underwear, and jammies at 
> school! Surely Draco would have said quite horrible things if he had 
> witnessed Madam Malkin noticing the condition of the clothes that 
> Harry had worn into her shop.


 Surely in the month between Harry's shopping trip with Hagrid and his day travelling to school, Harry managed to get some tense, unpleasant school clothes shopping in. Gringott's has the capacity to trade between Wizard and Muggle currency, and Aunt Petunia would probably still have had to take Dudley shopping. He could well have persuaded Mrs. Figg to take him secretly at some point when the Dursleys were all out, alternatively. She would have understood what it was all about, although she wouldn't have admitted that to Harry.