OOP: Wizard's robes

[the firey chasm from whence it came...]

No: HPFGUIDX 65293

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rose_in_shadow"
<rose_in_shadow at y...> wrote:
> Minor 
> 
> Spoiler
> 
> pace
> 
> For 
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> OotP
> 
> I suppose it is movie contamination but I've always pictured the 
> wizarding robes as a coat-like garment. But, as we now know from 
> Snape's Pensieve scene, the robes are, apparently, a set of clothing 
> with nothing worn under them except... erm... the nesecaries. :o)
>  
> This is actually rather alarming as it states in several of the books 
> that the Trio changed *into* their robes on the train. I don't 
> suppose there is a changing room on the Hogwarts Express? Or did JKR 
> simply forget this fact of her characters' clothing?
> 
> ~Moira

Ha! I've wondered the same thing myself. And remember in GoF when
there was that old guy who didn't want to wear trousers because "he
liked a healthy breeze around his privates"? 

I think I'll assume that they put their robes on over their clothing,
then take their bottoms off while they have their robes on. Also,
there might be a bathroom on the train (I'm not sure but I *think* I
remember some mention of one) and maybe they use that to change in. 

It seems like though that it would get awfully chilly wearing just
robes and no trousers underneath them in the winter. Brrrr!

~dream