Harry's hair/numbers/Dobby's pillowcase

[rcraigharman at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 13114

> 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.

The pillowcases on my bed right now have an opening along the
middle back of the case, rather than at the end.  One folds the
pillow to put it into the case.  Maybe JKR had something like that
in mind, or perhaps she was thinking more of something like the
duvets I knew from my stays in France and Germany, where the cases
button along the one end.  Then the house-elves would indeed wear
them "upside down" with arm and leg holes cut into the sides and 
closed end and the buttons up along their shoulders....

....Craig