Hogwarts prep school/Clothing/language/Muggle Interface

[draco382]

No: HPFGUIDX 38559

  > I always sort of thought that the reason they wore Muggle 
clothes 
was 
> because they were kids.  Sort of like...well, like it's a becoming 
a 
> wizard privelage/honor to be able to wear robes and look all 
magical 
> and mystical all the time.  Didn't Ron's older brothers wear 
robes?  
> And I don't think the books have ever mentioned any adult wizard 
> wearing Muggle clothes unless they were trying to go in disguise. 
And 
> perhaps that's why the slightly older generations can't quite get 
the 
> hang of dressing "normaly", because it's been so long since 
they've 
> had to and the styles have changed- and perhaps they just find it 
> slightly insulting to have to do so?  
> 


I agree with aldrea279, but in addition, I think the reason the 
younger generation has caught on with muggle clothes while many of 
the older generation are still fumbling is because of the comment 
Ron made when the trio are in Hagrid's hut after Quidditch practice 
in Cos.  I don't have my book with me for a page number, but this is 
when Ron is puking slugs.  During the discussion over the mudblood 
comment, Ron explains that if wizards hadn't married muggles, they 
[wizards] would have died out.  Ron seems to be implying that this 
is a relatively new phenomenon, so perhaps when wizards married 
muggles, they began absorbing certain parts of muggle culture as 
well, namely clothing, names, etc...  And, like most "new fangled 
ideas" it looks like the younger generation just caught onto it 
quicker than the older generation, who were probably brought up in 
the more traditional wizarding world.  There have been enough 
examples of this in our own world...take the advent of 
the "internet" or "email" for example...
 
~P