uniforms

[Dennis]

No: HPFGUIDX 84658

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sachmet96" <sachmet96 at y...> 
wrote:
> > 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.
> 

<snip the rest>

Indeed, it was obvious.  In this case, the girl's prefect badge 
should have certainly obviated that she was a Ravenclaw, for it was 
none other than Miss Penelope Clearwater.  This part was a clue for 
the plotline of she and Percy seeing each other and writing all 
summer.  Ron and Harry (in disguise) were down the Slytherin hallway 
searching for a door, so they assumed (incorrectly) that whomever 
they met would be a Slytherin on their way to the dormitory without 
looking first to verify this.  Fifteen minutes later, they bump into 
Percy, who had to allow a discreet amount of time before leaving the 
cozy spot he and Penelope had been visiting all year.

As further evidence, I submit the descriptions of the "long, curly 
hair" found for both the girl coming up from the dungeons, and in 
the hospital wing, where Harry "recognized her as the Ravenclaw 
they'd accidentally asked for directions to the Slytherin common 
room" as McGonagall was leading them to Hermione.  I think the 
suggestion that Percy was only seeking glory by finding the Heir 
himself was a red herring.

To the point, this passage can't tell us anything about uniform 
standards, as we see this girl was clearly marked, even if no one 
else is.  Perhaps prefect badges don't mark a person's house, even, 
but surely the fact that it was a prefect would have let them 
recognize what house she came from.  I mean, prefects are students 
you'd pay enough attention to to know their house, right?

-Dennis

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