[HPforGrownups] Nitpick about Demiguises (and their pelts)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 22811

pbnesbit at msn.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've got a nit to pick with Newt Scamander (I'm also hoping that this
> will qualify me as a L.O.O.N member).
>
> In Fantastic Beasts, under the entry for Demiguises it states that
> 'Demiguise pelts are highly valuable as the hair may be spun into
> Invisibility Cloaks.'
>
> Here's my nitpick: you don't spin pelts into anything.  You *weave*
> them into things like Invisibility Cloaks.  (And to further nitpick,
> you don't spin *pelts* without first processing them--like wool.)

Jeez. You city folks. I'm betting, myself, that Newt didn't think he
needed to state the obvious. A pelt is a skin with the fur/hair still
on. And only fur/hair is spun into anything. So presumably to make a
cloak, the first step in processing is to take the pelt that someone has
brought you, remove the fur/hair from the skin, do whatever you do with
depilated demiguise skins, spin the fur/hair, and weave the cloak.

But the basic thing harvested from the demiguise would be the pelt. You
skin it and take the skin to whoever weaves these things. Either that,
or you take the whole dead animal. So "pelt" is the basic demiguise
product that is then used in the process of weaving cloaks.

--Amanda


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