Harry's clothes (WAS:sloppy school uniforms)

[sophiamcl]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:
> Personally, I've never had a problem with Harry having clothes 
which fit. Whilst this element has been excised from the book, he 
gets his own room at the Dursleys' at the beginning of PS/SS because 
Vernon and Petunia are scared that they're being spied upon. It would 
therefore make perfect sense (although it's not mentioned) that they 
would equip Harry with better clothes because if the "spies" can see 
into the Dursleys' house, it stands to reason that they can see Harry 
outside. As the whole thing is about keeping up appearances, if they 
improve Harry's conditions inside the house, then it only makes sense 
that they should improve his appearance outside it.I'm prepared to be 
corrected on this point, but I don't think there's any mention of 
Harry's outsize clothes once he is given Dudley's second bedroom. 

Alright, prepare to be corrected. But first let me state for the 
record (referring to the thread as a whole rather than Richard's post)
that I have no problem whatsoever with Harry wearing clothes that fit 
him in the movies. I think it would be rather distracting to have him 
running around in clothes much too big for him. He did in the first 
movie and that was enough. Besides, the Dudley of the movies is not 
the grotesque size he is in the books (wider than he's tall)so the 
clothes Harry wore in PS would have been Vernon's old togs.

I also feel the need to say that I have no problem with the new 
uniforms or any other continuity issues, I think the discrepancies 
are what spice the franchise up--different directors, different 
visions. How dreadful to be stuck with a single vision for the entire 
series. They all have Rowling in common and her vision is enough to 
unify the films as a septology. Bring on the discrepancies, I say!

Alright Richard, prepare to be corrected: (though this is a detail of 
distincly minor importance.) Harry does wear Dudley's old clothes 
after CoS,(though in terms of the movies, I think it entierly 
plausible and consistent that following the move to Dud's room, the 
Dursley's would take better care to dress him.) 

GoF p.35 (Bloomsbury paperback): "'You stand there, in the clothes 
Petunia and I have put on your ungrateful back-' 'Only after Dudley 
finished with them,'said Harry coldly, and indeed, he was dressed in 
a sweatshirt so large for him that he had to roll back the sleeves 
five times so as to be able to use his hands, and which fell past the 
knees of his extremely baggy jeans."

There is a reference in OotP to Harry eating at so much at a dinner 
at Grimmauld Place that even Dudleys jeans felt tight, but I'm too 
lazy to go look it up just now.

Sophia