sloppy school uniforms

[huntergreen_3]

Shaun wrote:

>>We didn't look like average kids.

And there's no particular reason to suppose students at Hogwarts
do.

There's also no huge reason to suppose they wouldn't - but don't
make judgements based on the idea that you 'see them wandering
around in clothes you'd never see kids wearing'. Because you would
have said things like that very much about me and my friends - and
we did wear those clothes.<<

It works both ways then...you are making a judgement about what they 
*should* look like in their off times as well. Yes, the world in the 
books are based on a particular model of school (and I agree with you 
very much on that fact), and the world in the movies is a reflection 
of that, but its a reflection only. If the directer thinks that the 
kids would dress more like regular kids in their off time, then what 
huge difference does it *really* make? 

>>Hermione's parents are sending her off to a boarding school they
know very little about, except possibly that it's the best of its
type. The clothes she wears in the first two movies seem to fit
quite nicely with what her mother would buy in the circumstances to
me (-8<<

Well, there is a chance that she could have brought along some of her 
other clothes as well, her more relaxed summer clothes (but this is 
all so rhetorical, that there's no real point in discussing it). 
What about Harry though? No one would have bought him special 
clothes, he would only have Dudley's old clothes, and those would 
most-likely (knowing Dudley) be fashionable. Really, the argument 
with Harry shouldn't be why he's in jeans, but why his clothes fit 
him (I guess that's a detail that will sadly remain ignored).


-Rebecca