Dumbledore's Vanity (was: Mostly (but not entirely) MOVIE: Sunday Times)

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 27471

dfrankiswork at netscape.net wrote:

> 1. Dumbledore's vanity.  The costume designer said that JKR sees
> Dumbledore as having personal vanity - he dresses up a lot, so there
> are frequent changes of clothing.  This was new to me, and thinking
> about it, and, while not inconsistent with what we already know about
> him, still gives me, at any rate, a new take on his character.  Is
> this a genuine addition to canon (if proved)?

I'm not sure that it's necessarily a bad kind of "celebrity-esque" vanity,
but rather that Dumbledore was, in his youth, a bit of a sharp dresser, and
that he may, dear man that he is, try to keep that up -- not to a "mutton
dressed up as lamb" extent, but that he might get a new robe made every
year.

We had a teacher like that at school -- the Senior Master, in fact, who was
always impeccably dressed in classically-styled clothes -- nice shirts,
ties, suits and shoes. I've always seen Dumbledore as the wizarding
equivalent of him.

--John

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-"You are drunk, Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk."
-Yes, Mrs Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs Braddock, are ugly, and
disgustingly fat. But tomorrow morning I, Winston Churchill, will be sober.

John Walton -- john at walton.vu
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