Harry's clothes

[joanne0012]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "heathernmoore" <heathernmoore at y...> wrote:
> --- 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? . . . 
> > 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. 
> > 
>  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.

I like the Mme. Malkin theory better -- I'm pretty sure that Harry didn't know 
yet that Mrs. Figg/Arabella Figg was a witch whom he could turn to, and surely 
he doesn't want the Dursleys to know that he has cash in his pockets -- they 
probably assume that he got some sort of scholarship to Hogwarts that also 
covered supplies.   

Or perhaps that nice red sweater was a hand-me-down from Dudley after all 
-- something he had worn in the first grade, LOL!

Yet another possibility is that the Dursleys are so intimidated by the 
wizarding world (viz. moving Harry to the upstairs bedroom) that they don't 
dare send him with those awful hand-me-downs and actually provide some 
decent non-uniform clothes for him, for fear of reprisals if the wizards see 
him in his Dudley stuff.

Isn't it strange that the books talk about socks so much, but are so vague 
about other clothing that it's even *possible* (before the movie, at least) to 
wonder what goes on under the robes?