Clothes/Distinguishing between muggle and wizard things

[hpistheman4me]

No: HPFGUIDX 40747

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "zoomphy" <zoomphy at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Heather Gauen <miss_dumblydore at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> "Do all magic kids wear "muggle" clothes when not in school? If so, 
> why do adults bother to wear robes? More importantly, why don't 
> adults know how to dress properly as muggles? After all, if magical 
> kids know enough how to wear things like jeans and sweaters, how 
come 
> the adults think kilts, galoshes, and women's dresses (on men) are 
> proper clothing?"

Zoomphy, it is very strange because my sister and I were talking 
about the exact same thing the other day also. Enough of the strange 
coincidences...You would think that they wouldn't need to distinguish 
between wizard things and muggle things, but maybe it is mainly just 
the children who do it for the sake of the muggle-born witches and 
wizards. After all, Hermione and the other muggle-borns may not have 
heard of "wizard's chess" before. 

I was also thinking just the other day that it seems that 
we "muggles" seem to be doing just fine without magic considering 
that if we were at school and wanted to find out who a certain person 
was like Harry, Ron, and Hermione were looking for Nicholas Flamel, 
we would just have to get on a computer and look it up on the 
internet. It seems strange that we have such a good resource when it 
took them forever to find it. I also wonder why Ron had never heard 
of Nicholas Flamel before when he was supposed to have collected 
almost every famous wizard card from the chocolate frog's packs. Why 
hadn't he ever come across Nicholas Flamel or at least knew that he 
was missing it like he knew he was missing the Agrippa card? Surley 
Professor Dumbledore's partner and the only owner of the Sorceror's 
Stone would have a card. Sorry if this has been disscussed before it 
was just something that was bothering me!
~Cindy~