Grey laundry

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 76642

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sara_ELL" <sara1412au at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> 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


That was a good article, I personally believe it was written under a 
nom de plume by none other than Severus Snape as retaliation against 
Harry's snooping.

. 
> 
> 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.


Oh come on...maybe that nightshirt CAME grey. It is possible to buy 
grey clothing you know. I don't have either book with me now but 
wasn't a distiction made about the underwear--that it "greying" to 
indicate it wasn't new/clean or however one chooses to read that? The 
nightshirt was just...well grey. I agree with the other post...what 
ELSE could JKR have written Snape in as far as nightwear---ok a 
velvet smoking jacket perhaps but I just don't see it.

Besides as it's been mentioned 1,000 times, the house elves at HW do 
the laundry. Unless Snape is wearing this nightshirt under his robes 
every day to hide it from them just to see how grimy he can get it, 
(ok, yes it's a possibility) the house elves are keeping it as clean 
and as grey as it was the day it arrived in its 3-pack from the 
Wizarding World's version of the Sears catalog.


Melpomene--who knows a little about single men of the scientific type 
and how little value they place on fashion, especially fashion no one 
else is supposed to see--and who actually owns grey jammies that came 
that way from the store (NOT in a 3-pack)--and who is a raving 
Snapefan who would rather NOT entertain that bikini picture.