uniforms

[sachmet96]

No: HPFGUIDX 84602

> Yolanda 
> They don't wear house specific markings.  Remember in CoS when 
Harry 
> and Ron disguised as Slytherins asked a girl where the Slytherin 
> common room was and she said she was in Ravenclaw.  They never 
could 
> have mistaken a student from one house for another if they wore 
> markings.  They wouldn't have had to guess who was a Slytherin in 
the 
> first place.  House markings would have solved that problem easily.

sachmet96
I just reread the passage and she sounded to me that she thought they 
were stupid to even assume she was Slytherin which implies to me that 
it must have been obvious she was a Ravenclaw.

I still think there are markings on the robes true it isn't said in 
the books that there are markings but it also isn't said that there 
aren't. As it never says plain robes, except in the Hogwart letters 
and that means that the markings are attached later (after the 
sorting).

Also I find it hard to believe that Harry and friend could recognise 
students from different houses (like pointed out in previous posts), 
like a group of Slytherins, even when they are eating with them 
nearly every day. And Ginny did introduce Luna as a Ravenclaw if 
students were able to tell what house others are in simply by the 
looks than that would have not been necessary, esp. as Luna seems to 
be an easy recogniseable person.

And how are professors to distinguish first year students to 
deduct/award points. I can't believe they have such a good memory to 
recognise every single first year student after only a few days to do 
that. And what about teachers who don't teach all students (like the 
ones from the elective classes?) are they going to ask what house the 
student is in and then deduct points? I find that hard to believe and 
it would be easy for the student to lie wouldn't it?

In my school we had over 1000 students and about 90 teachers and esp. 
when I was in a higher class I wasn't able to distinguis the lower 
class students anymore (I simply didn't pay any attention to them) 
and same goes for students of different classes in the same year. I 
knew they were in my year but I couldn't name which class. My primary 
school was a half boarding school so all students had meals together 
and there were only about 200 students and I could also not say in 
which class who was (neither could the teachers btw.). So from 
personal experience I would say that there must be a distinguishing 
feature on which the teachers can recognise the house the student is 
in simply to deduct/award points.

So that's why I believe there are some markings on the uniforms.