[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's hair/numbers/Dobby's pillowcase

[Doreen]

No: HPFGUIDX 13096

Dobby's pillowcase:

There *is* one thing that's confusing me at the moment though.  When we're first introduced to Dobby in Harry's bedroom in CoS, it says he's wearing a pillowcase, with arm and leg-holes cut out.  Does anyone else find this odd?  I can see a head hole and arm holes, and the open end down like a dress,but if there are arm and leg holes, all I can imagine is that the open end is then bunched up around his neck or something.  The chapter illustration used looks more like I imagined it, but that's an artist's interpretation.  Do you think she meant for it to look like a trash bag with arms and legs sticking out?  Curious.

kimberly
This is what I love about this club! For most of my reading life, I thought that I was the only one who noticed quirky things like this. 

Typos bug me too, which brings to mind my total disappointment in the quality of the US HP paperbacks with many instances of missing letters, due to poor printing job. 

As anyone who has dressed a small child as a ghost for halloween, knows, it is not necessary to "cut out" the leg holes... only the head and arm holes, which makes it a great easy costume. What JKR was thinking when she wrote that is beyond me. Like you, I read that line, wrinkled my brow, looked at the illustration, shrugged my shoulders, and read on.

On the other hand, I sailed right past the "ancestor" without even noticing the significance of the use of the wrong term. :)

Doreen, who loves her Sorting Hat bookends which now embrace her books 


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