Fantastic Beasts, Monks underwear or lack thereof, and Costumes

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 45814

Risti writes: 
> what are everyone's guesses on which creature will come up in 
> COMC in the next book. My vote is for the Griffin, because of the 
> line in the book, 'Though griffins are fierce, a handful of 
> skilled wizards have been known to befriend one.' If that's not a  
> call outfor Hagrid, I don't know what is.

They're also described as being employed to guard treasure. Which 
does suggest a few possible plot lines to my mind, yes (now which of 
the Trio would be really *keen* on finding treasure
).

Lethifolds do seem to be similar to Dementors – described as 
resembling a long black cloak, so maybe the cloak is part of the 
Dementor, or alternatively, the Dementor's black cloak is made of 
Lethifold skin? Errgh!

My vote for the funniest beast is the Pogrebin; especially the 
comment that `Kicking has also been found effective.'  (p. 33)


Jacob Lewis points out (as does Pippin): 
> Tut, tut. As the Rule of St. Benedict, which is in the minds of 
> all othermonastic orders when they make their Rules, so 
> illustriously puts it:"Each monk needs only two each of tunics 
> and cowels, [...]. Anything else issuperfluous and should be     
>  banished."


Oops! Bad Pip!Squeak! 

::::Goes and bangs her head on the oven door whilst repeating "I 
must not rely on secondary sources. I must not rely on secondary 
sources
"::::

Apologies. You're both quite right. I thought that when my old 
textbook said that the Benedictine rule specified clothing down to 
details of undergarments, it meant that monks *had* undergarments. 
But obviously, they didn't.

Veering dangerously towards OT:
Ing says: 
> What they were wearing over the uniformish outfits _were_ 
> robes, not cloaks.

This seems to be a terminology thing here. The sleeved black 
garments that the children are wearing in class in TMTMNBN are what 
I would call academic *gowns*, not robes. They are part of the 
uniform. 

There is also a cloak, sleeveless, which is used for outside wear. 
That's what I meant when I said `cloak over uniform'.

The only secondary school in Britain that still has a similar style 
of gown as part of the uniform is the public [trans. `private and 
far too expensive for the likes of me'] school Radley College. 
Otherwise, Oxford and Cambridge Universities still have them in 
everyday use. 

One of the publicity pics for what presumably will be called 
TSMTMNBN [The Second Movie That Must Not Be Named] shows Draco 
wearing his Slytherin cloak over a plain black costume. 

Leaky Cauldron link for the pic is 
http://www.mantissa.org/~lcauldron/images/2002/10/LuciusDraco2.jpg

The definition problems for Draco will probably give you an idea why 
black on matt black is such a bad idea in movies. Note that they've 
used nice shiny buttons and  different clothing textures to try and 
avoid the problem with Lucius.

Pip!Squeak
[who sincerely hopes she's got her facts right this time!]