[HPforGrownups] Re: What's going on under Snape's robes (longish)

[Lady Macbeth]

No: HPFGUIDX 74543

Art Said: >>> There was a moment at the Quidditch World Cup where a wizard
named Archie is wearing a woman's nightgown. He protests the recommendation
of a MOM official to put on pants.

"I'm not putting them on," said old Arichie in indignation. "I like a
healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks."

So, by wearing underwear, a teenage Snape is being a bit conservative....<<<

Cindy Said :
>>>From all of these descriptions, it is quite obvious that Severus Snape
wears robes, a cloak, underwear and nothing else underneath. Sorry to
dissapoint you, but there are no taylored trousers, or neck-high shirts, no
fingerless gloves, or scarves etc... And I know why. It is simply because
Snape is a wizard, not a muggle, and the fact that he wears only wizard
clothes leads me to believe that he definately comes from  a pureblood
family, as witches or wizards who have grown up as muggles tend to wear
their robes over the top of their muggle clothes, but Snape wears only
robes. The fact that Snape wore only robes as a 15 year old teenager, and
that he still wears only robes (and no muggle clothing underneath) probably
suggests that that is what he has been wearing his whole life, with the
later addition of his trademark long black cloak.This also makes him more
'wizard' to me. I cannot imagine Severus Snape, in anything that resembles
muggle clothes, no matter how 'eccentric' or 'Goth' the clothing. It isn't
him. He is a wizard, full stop. Wizards wear robes.<<<

Lady Macbeth:
These instances all corroborate the idea that I have long had - that wizards
who run the chance of meeting up with Muggles, such as Ministry officials
and children, wear "muggle-like" clothes in their daily work.  Others who
have no reason to venture into the Muggle world would not.

This is also supported by a quote from the first chapter of the first book:

Sorcerer's Stone, American Paperback Edition, Pg 10:

-----"I know that," said Professor McGonagall irritably.  "But that's no
reason to lose our heads.  People are being downright careless, out on the
streets in broad daylight, not even dressed in Muggle clothes, swapping
rumors."

She threw a sharp, sideways glance at Dumbledore here, as though hoping he
was going to tell her something, but he didn't, so she went on.  "A fine
thing it would be if, on the very day You-Know-Who seems to have disappeared
at last, the Muggles found out about us all.  I suppose he really _has_
gone, Dumbledore?"-----

This suggests that the cloaks and "odd" clothing that Vernon had noticed
were normal clothing for wizards, but that they normally wear Muggle
clothing when in areas where they would come in contact with Muggles, so as
to keep their race a secret.

-Lady Macbeth




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