Clothes under robes, kilts (was Re: Snape's nationality and worst memory)

[sleepingblyx]

No: HPFGUIDX 76146

Wearing clothes under the robes seems to come about from the film, 
not 
> the book. If they wear normal clothes under the robes, why bother 
at 
> all with the robes? Secondly on the train, why would Hermione 
leave 
> when the boys change into their robes if they are only putting 
them on 
> over their normal clothes?
> 
> "president0084"

I think the adding of clothing in the movies was possibly about the 
pressure to separate Harry Potter from the "Evil Satanic Folk" <g> 
that still renders criticism of the books today. 

Going naked, or with as little clothing as possible, under the robe 
is a tradition synonymous with magic practice. While J.K.R doesn't 
go into what wizards might have been doing in the ancient times, if 
they were perhaps a bit more into ritual, then not wearing much or 
anything at all would have simply been a custom, tradition, etc, 
that carried into the latter centuries.

^v^ Blyx ^v^