[HPforGrownups] Re: OT: Garment Shop

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 1984



Kelley wrote:

>
>
>  I would so love to see lots of people out and about dressed in cloaks.
> Pre-HP, I
> probably would have felt like Vernon Dursley at the beginning of SS.
> Now, however, I'd want to join in.
>

I'm actually looking forward to the first day I'll be wearing it to the
office (I work at a law firm).  I mean, it is so much NOT firm legal wear,
which is part of the reason I like it.  At times I really chafe over having
to work where I do, just to pay the mortgage.  So I wear funky clothes, I
get a hair wrap once in a while, just to push the envelope.

And ahem, yes, Amanda, I suppose you could say I was a fool to spend so much
money on it.  Couldn't make it myself--don't have a sewing machine or to the
time.  And, yeah, I could have hired a seamstress, but I didn't.  I chose to
do it and I'm not sorry.  Once in a while, I firmly believe, you have to be
a fool with your own money.  Not often, just occasionally.  I have to be
responsible in so many areas of my life (Mom, chief breadwinner, full-time
extremely mundane job), that sometimes, I just have to do something
absolutely crazy once in a while.  Like buy an expensive cloak.  Or rob
hours from my own sleep, writing essays about the seven deadly sins and the
HP books.  Or write fantasy novels.

Sometimes, I really get tired of being a responsible muggle.  So I pretend
I'm something else.

Peg