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

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 27473

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., John Walton <john at w...> wrote:

> 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.

I agree it's not bad.  I imagined that it's part of his sense of fun -
 he enjoys seeing what he can achieve in the mirror, and then letting 
others see it.

I have always found the description at the beginning of PS well worth 
taking the trouble to imagine properly - if the movie manages it all 
properly we could have a new fashion trend soon.

David