Grey laundry

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 76574

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sara_ELL" <sara1412au at y...> 
wrote:
> Wanda wrote:
> 
> > There's been lots of commentary on Snape's grey underwear, 
> 
> <SNIPPED a very sensible discussion about the comfort of old, 
> possibly grey clothes>
> 
> Wanda, 
> 
> As much as I hate to admit it (slurring the name of Snape and all 
of 
> that), I have to point out that in order for laundry to become 
> laundry, it has to be removed from the wearer's body and placed in 
a 
> designated location, usually called "a laundry basket". Lily's 
> retort to troubled-teenage-upsidedown!Snape is of course, is the 
> implication that he has not managed to acquire the level of 
hygiene 
> associated with regular laundering of undergarments, hence greying 
> underwear.
> 
> Actually - as an aside, this may be another thing that troubled-
> teenage!Snape has with highly-troubled-teenage!Harry, if you read 
> the article put out on "The Leaky Cauldron" website which recalls 
> the number of times Harry is mentioned bathing or cleaning himself 
> in the series and finds it... lacking. 
> 
> The long grey nightshirt is, by extrapolation therefore somewhat 
> troubling as in my deepest of hearts, I really, really would hope 
> that Snape would have mastered the art of bathing by the age 35 
(or 
> however old he is meant to be). I shall comfort myself with the 
> thought that Snape's nightshirt, neither black nor white, is a 
> reflection of his character itself - mysterious and grey.
> 
> ***
> Sara-ELL (who cannot argue with your logic of nice, soft and comfy 
> old flannel jammies)

I think we are reading too much into all this - let's face it it 
would have totally destroyed his image if he'd had "a dazzling white 
freshly laundered and starched nightshirt" or "silk pyjamas and a 
maroon silk dressing gown" or "bikini scanties".  He may crave good 
nightwear and underwear the way I crave good red wine of a night, 
but he's is just not going to cut it as the resident spooky guy if 
he dresses up better.  My own advice to him would be that black 
undies and nightwear would improve his image a helluva lot - and 
would go with all his other black stuff.  

Just a thought.

June

"It is a comfort in wretchedness to have companions in woe"
Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus