Magically altering clothes

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 34721

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "jrober4211" <midwife34 at a...> wrote:
> When I read the part about Ron taking the lace off of his robe and 
> messing up the spell by leaving ragged edges, I immediatly wondered 
> why he did not grab a roll of spellotape and have Hermione or Harry 
> help him turn the edge under and tape it to the inside of the robe. 

It didn't cross his mind, that's why. He's never learned of repairing 
clothes muggle-way, because at Mommy or Daddy would do a repair-spell.
(As well as Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred&George). With his wand he just 
HAD to come up with something himself...

> It worked for me in college when I had no time to repair a loose 
hem 
> in a pair of pants or a sleeve, except , of course, i used masking 
> tape instead of spellotape.....lolol.

Ron would think of waving a wand with a repair-spell (which he hasn't 
learned to do yet)

> Another solution I thought of, 
> was for Ron to go to the kitchen and see what the House Elves could 
> do with the robe. Since they can do laundry, he could have taken 
the 
> robe off and laid it on a table for them to fix, or Ron could have 
> left the robe on and let the Elves mend it so they could judge what 
> length it needed to be hemmed at....oh well, just a thought. 

And listen to Hermione's remarks about 'slave-work' or admitting not 
being able to fix it himself? He does not want either. Besides I got 
the idea that Ron complains - not because he *really* dislikes his 
things, but because if *he* points out all the bad sides first, he 
doesn't have to hear *someone else* telling him so. (Like F&G in 
order to get Ron angry).