Muggle Clothing [Was Newbie Intro and Question]

[Kate Tanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 39205


--- joanne0012 <Joanne0012 at aol.com> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Kate Tanski <shindemo_ii at y...> wrote:
> > Critic Anthony Holden has labeled the HP series as belonging to the
> > 'weary tradition' of school novels a la Tom Brown's Schooldays.
> There
> > are some startling parallels. 
> 
> You need to read Pico Iyer's wonderful article, "Playing Fields of
> Hogwarts," which 
> appeared in the New Yorker in late 1999.  He argues that Hogwarts is
> in many 
> ways an accurate reproduction of the classical English boarding
> schools; as such, 
> it would not be derivative of Tom Brown's Schooldays, but rather both
> would be 
> impressions of the genuine places.  Here's a link to the article.
> 
> http://partners.nytimes.com/books/99/10/10/bookend/bookend.html
> 

Thank you for the link. I have, actually, already read this article and
have found it incredibly useful. Being an American, I was struck
immediately by his statement that Hogwarts 'magical' rites of passage
would seem normal to anyone who has gone through British Public
Schools. Prefects, houses, even robes. I remember being startled by the
official Hogwarts uniforms when I saw the first tralier and thinking
"But those are just like British School Uniforms! Not real Wizards'
Robes!" 

It does make me wonder, though. About the use in the film of Muggle
clothing but the apparent rarity of this as implied by GoF and the
infamous clothing scenes . . . How are these to be reconsiled?

=Kate=


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