Dudley Wearing Leather?

[lziner]

No: HPFGUIDX 80716

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Donna" <deemarie1a at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
> <gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> > Geoff:
> > The east side of the UK has a reputation for being chilly and 
> windy. 
> > I live in Porlock in West Somerset in the Exmoor National Park on 
> the 
> > south side of the Bristol Channel. All through August and up to 
> now, 
> > we have had good weather; temperatures in early August were 
> > exceptionally high into the high 20s and early 30s in the first 
> part 
> > of the month. Now, we are still pretty warm during the day but it 
> > gets very cool first thing in the morning and during the evening.
> > 
> > Yesterday for example I was out walking on the moors with my 
family 
> > and I was in shorts without a top for most of the day - 
temperature 
> > about 23. By the evening, I'm into a jumper. If Hogwarts is in 
> > Scotland, they'd certainly have cold nights though.
> 
> D says -
> 
> Whoa!  We are definately in danger of being OT here!  I understand 
> that this year, Europe has been experiencing the worst heat wave in 
> quite a few years.  Sounded pretty much like our normal southwest 
> weather here in the US.
> 
> My point was, that being an American, I just don't get the idea of 
> sweaters and coats in August, whether it is daytime or evening.  It 
> is my fondest desire to visit the UK one day, to experience 
> everything your lovely country has to offer.
> 
> Now to get back on topic, Dudley is being very "Marlon Brando".  
It's 
> COOL to wear a leather jacket.  It is also very sterotypical.  The 
> tough bad dude wears leather.  It is also another way to contrast 
the 
> treatment of Harry and Dudley.  Harry gets the old hand-me-downs 
> while Dudley gets the top of the line stuff.  Leather jackets are 
> very expensive.  And I just don't see Harry getting that when 
Dudley 
> grows larger.
> 
> D


 OT but your last sentence made me smile and I thought that perhaps 
Harry can get some leather when he picks up Sirius' flying motorcycle 
(bg) - too cool! 
lz