The torn bag problem.

[Jamie]

No: HPFGUIDX 28607

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., morsethanatos at y... wrote:
> Hi, 
> I was re-reading POA(lost count of how many times a while ago) and 
as 
> I was going through the part where Crookshanks slashes Ron's bag to 
> get at Scabbers, an idea hit me. Bags are getting torn quite often 
in 
> the books. Harry get's his torn by the dwarf, Hermione's bag splits 
> from all the books, Ron's is ripped apart, Harry splits Diggory's 
> bag, and I think there are some more. First of all how do they 
> replace/fix these things? But more importantly is this just a 
> technique that JKR seems to like or could there me something more 
to 
> this? 
> 
> Morsethanatos

Hmmm...I guess I aways just assumed that there was some sort of fix-
it charm like Mr. Weasley uses for Harry's glasses in CoS.  Not a 
very exciting conclusion, but you are right that JKR uses this a lot!