[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Amusing comment from Cuaron

[Shaun Hately]

On 29 Jun 2004 at 9:48, huntergreen_3 wrote:

> I think what Krissy was referring to was an interview with either 
> Cuaron or JKR about the PoA film. (sorry, I can't really remember the 
> specifics...I'm sure someone else here rememebers this interview, I 
> think I actually heard it mentioned more than once). It was either 
> that the kids wear regular clothes under the robes or that they wear 
> regular clothes when they aren't in class (can someone with a better 
> memory help me out here?). 

I have vague memories of this myself - the problem is though, I've 
heard so many cases of people saying something was said in an 
interview and then nobody can find the interview that it's hard to 
know if it really did exist or not. If anyone can dredge it up, 
that would be good.

Whether they wear their regular clothes under their robes or not 
from the books is an open question.

>From Philosopher's Stone:

"Harry woke at five o'clock the next morning and was too excited
and nervous to go back to sleep. He got up and pulled on his jeans
because he didn't want to walk into the station in his wizard's
robes - he'd change on the train."

This suggests that he wouldn't be wearing the jeans if he was 
wearing the robes.

P.82

"'You'd better hurry up and put your robes on, I've just been
up to the front to ask the conductor, and he says we're nearly
there. You haven't been fighting, have you? You'll be in trouble
before we even get there!'

'Scabbers has been fighting, not us,' said Ron, scowling at
her. 'Would you mind leaving while we change?'

suggests that they have to undress somewhat to change as well.

But by Goblet of Fire, there is no mention of them separating to 
change on the train. P.151.

"Ron's bad mood continued for the rest of the journey. He didn't
talk much as they changed into their school robes, and was still
glowering when the Hogwarts Express slowed down at last and finally
stopped in the pitch-darkness of Hogsmeade station."

They could have - but by fourth year, they might not care about the 
others seeing them in their underwear perhaps - they are pretty 
close.

P. 608:

"'He'll be fine,' said Madam Pomfrey, giving Harry some pyjamas
and pulling screens around him. He took off his robes, pulled on
the pyjamas, and got into bed."

also suggests nothing under the robes.

As for wearing Muggle clothing, GoF also suggests that students 
don't wear Muggle clothing in term time:

"Harry felt a slight sense of foreboding. He had rarely seen
Mr. or Mrs. Weasley wearing anything that the Dursleys would call
'normal.' Their children might don Muggle clothing during the
holidays, but Mr. and Mrs. Weasley usually wore long robes in
varying states of shabbiness." 

really does suggest that the Weasley children only do it in the 
holidays.

> Of course, as you said, books are books, 
> movies are movies, so it doesn't matter *that* much anyway. 
> AS for the book references though, I wonder if "robes" and "uniforms" 
> are the same thing. I got the feeling from the books (and this is 
> echoed in the first two movies), that their robes are used the same 
> as a coat; ex: Harry wishes that he would have brought his robe with 
> him the first time he sneaks to Hogsmeade, because he's cold (btw, 
> that means, of course, that he wasn't wearing his robe *that* time). 
> This is still is changed in the third movie, as when they go to 
> Hogsmeade, all three of them are wearing coats.

OK - uniforms and robes do seem to be the same thing.

>From Philosopher's Stone, p. 52.

"Uniform
First-year students will require:
1. Three sets of plain work robes (black)
2. One plain pointed hat (black) for day wear
3. One pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)
4. One winter cloak (black, silver fastenings)."

And Harry wishes he'd brought his 'cloak' with him when he first 
goes to Hogsmeade:

"Harry shivered; unlike the other two, he didn't have his
cloak. They headed up the street, heads bowed against the wind,
Ron and Hermione shouting through their scarves." Presumably the 
black winter cloak with silver fastenings.


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