Muumuus? Kilts? Wah? (WAS Re: Humour)

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No: HPFGUIDX 40615

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> wrote:
> Ye Gods. I guess it falls to a L.O.O.N. to actually get up and get 
the books
> and Look It Up. Here.

Okay, confession time--at this moment, I don't own any of the books; 
I've only rented. (ducks tomatoes, weaponry, etc.)  I'm going off of 
pure memory here--fortunatly, I have this freakish tendency to 
remember completly useless stuff.
 
> From the Brit version (okay, Canadian, but they got the Brit 
version):
> 
> "One of them was a very old wizard who was wearing a long flowery
> nightgown." (p. 77, description of Archie)
> 
> Only other odd clothing description: "'There's a bloke walking 
round in a
> kilt and a poncho.'" (p. 72, Mr. Roberts the Muggle is the speaker, 
as he
> greets Arthur Weasley.
> 
> The US version's wording is the same in both instances. On a quick 
scan, I
> couldn't find any other clothing descriptions (I thought the African
> magicians might have been wearing muumuus in at least one version, 
but in
> both it is merely long robes).
> 
> So the word "kilt" does appear, but not in relation to Archie; 
Archie is
> wearing a nightgown, and nowhere that I could find was any 
permutation of
> "muumuu." Okay?
> 
Okay, my mistake--nobody's memory is perfect.  The point is Archie's 
in a friggin' dress.  And the kilt thing had nothing to do with that; 
it was simply a random comment.

~Christi