Movie vs. book, was Re: Wizard clothing

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No: HPFGUIDX 21979

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jeremy Griffin" <daumas2 at y...> wrote:
a whole bunch of interesting stuff about English public school attire.

While I mostly agree with peoples explanations of why and how the 
various pieces of Hogwarts attire are worn, one thing I am pretty 
sure of is that there is a DIFFERENCE between the movie and the 
books, in terms of what they wear.  In the books, the students always 
seem to wear their robes, whereas in the movie there is one scene 
(Harry and Oliver Wood outside with the snitch) where they are not 
wearing them.  However, since attire is not mentioned in every scene 
in the book, I suppose it is possible that sometimes they take their 
robes off.  Maybe it was hot out that day.

There is at least one classroom scene in one of the books where 
someone (Seamus Finnegan?) sets fire to something and Harry has to 
put out the fire with his hat.  This implies that students generally 
wear their hats to class, whereas in the movie the students rarely 
seem to wear their nice, witchy-pointy hats.

Also, in the movie students wear ties and have Hogwarts crests on 
their robes, neither of which were mentioned in the books.  If ties 
were required, wouldn´t you think it would have said that in Harry's  
letter?  I don´t think that kids in the early 90s in England 
ordinarily wore ties.  

The movie seems to have gone for a much more "typical British 
boarding school" look, rather than the "traditional folklore witches 
attire" look implied in the books.  Maybe the moviemakers thought 
that they would look too freaky in their witches outfits, and kids 
watching the movie wouldn´t be able to relate to them.

--Joywitch, who can relate better to someone in a pointy hat than to 
someone wearing a tie