Wizard (under)Wear

pengolodh_sc pengolodh_sc at yahoo.no
Sat Jan 19 01:54:32 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 33724

--- In HPforGrownups, Barb wrote:
> 
> This is only evidence that it is easier to steal robes than
> additional clothes that would specifically fit C & G.  (They
> can just get any robes that are big enough to accomodate
> the "borrowed" bodies.)  Actually, if JKR really has been
> picturing the students all along as they appeared in the
> film, the reason they would have to segregate themselves to
> change is because of the Muggle-like uniforms they're wearing
> under the robes.  I used to think it was odd for them to hide
> from each other while putting robes on as well, but the more
> formal uniforms with the neckties, etc., make sense of this.
> 
> --Barb

But the following quote, from PS, ten pages or so into Chapter Five 
Diagon Alley, does not mesh with the uniforms shown in the movie:

"Madam Malkin stood Harry on a stool next to him [Draco], slipped a 
long robe over his head, and began to pin it to the right length." 

To me, that quote indicates that the robes cannot open to the front, 
since if they did, it should be more easy to put them on the regular 
way than slipping them over the person's head.  Also, I feel the 
uniforms in the movie are too muggle in style - they are almost 
completely identical to the traditional view of an English boarding 
school's uniforms, with grey trousers, shirt and tie, and grey 
pullover.  The only distinguishing mark is that instead of school 
blazers, they have something more akin to a barrister's court-robes, 
making it look like the school hopes for all the students to take the 
path of law-studies and append Q.C. to their names.  I cannot, for 
that matter, imagine any Malfoy condescending to wearing clothes that 
to that degree are in muggle-style, even if ti is a conservative 
variant.

Regarding the incident with the polyjuice, Harry Ron and Hermione 
removed nothing from Crabbe and Goyle except some hairs and the 
shoes, before locking them in the closet.  It is mentioned also that 
Harry's robes tore, and if he had been wearing shirt and tie, and the 
rest of the ensemble, then there would have been buttons all over the 
room, since the clothes inside the robes are a much tighter fit than 
the robes themselves in the movie.  Most likely both the shirt and 
the pullover would have been ripped (and the tie should be 
strangulating Harry), and new ones required, which would have to fit 
Slytherin.  I am quite certain that they were wearing the uniforms at 
that point, as they drugged Crabbe and Goyle immediately after 
Christmas Tea, which took place in the Great Hall.  It all fits much 
better if they were wearing robes which completely conceal their 
clothing underneath, without having been buttoned up to such a degree 
as is apparently only done when outdoors.

Best regards
Christian Stubø





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