Grey laundry

[Sara_ELL]

No: HPFGUIDX 76683


Melpomene wrote:

> 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.


Me:

I didn't think that it was possible to find a theory that would be 
found over the top on a board where Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer 
was discussed in relation to OoTP (such a post, and a very funny one 
at, does exist somewhere in the 7000 odd posts published in the last 
month and a half). 

For the record(extracting tongue from confines of cheek), I 
honestly, really, truely do not believe that the description of one 
Professor S. Snape's night-time attire in one paragraph of a five-
book series is meant to provide us with any great insight into the 
story other than to demonstrate that this same said S.Snape is 
an 'older-fashioned' gent. It also probably reflects his 
estrangement from the world of muggles (no muggle-wear jammies for 
former Death Eaters, apparently). I shall extract the slur put on 
said professor's hygiene and state that for the record, I think that 
he is as frugal with his clothing as with his words and probably 
just gets the same two or three nightshirts washed by the house 
elves over and over again... which makes me wonder what he does with 
his wages (if he gets paid for teaching at all, come to think of it).

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Sara_ELL (in fuzzy bunny-slippers but, alas, no grey pjamas and in 
complete agreement with Melpomene about disturbing images of Snape 
and bikinis)