house elves and laundry

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 88132

>Katie wrote: 
> Maybe, like scourgify, there is a simple spell that automatically 
> cleans your clothes. The students don't have to buy many school 
> robes, and if they had to wash them every few days, they would never 
> have them back in time for morning classes. I have always wondered 
> about trivial things like this, and I have an annoying question. 
> Somebody mentioned before about how we have finally heard about 
> somebody getting a shower in this book. Ok, we have that, but how do 
> they blow dry thier hair? Many girls are said to have pretty hair, 
> but how is it possible without all of the electronics. I mean, it's 
> drafty in a castle, and people should not be walking around with wet 
> heads. Do you guys think there is a simple spell for these kind of 
> things? (I know this is picky, and many people will contradict me by 
> saying alot of girls seem to have big and curly hairand blah blah, 
> but still...)
> 
> Katie (who would love to get a letter to Hogwarts that was delayed a 
> few years, but would not know how to survive without hair blow 
> dryers, muggle radio, and microwaves)


Carol:
IIRC, Hermione finds large robes in the laundry for Harry and Ron when
they trasform themselves into Crabbe and Goyle in SS/PS, which
probably means that the House Elves do the laundry at Hogwarts. (Young
snape may have tried to do his own and washed white underwear with
black robes, hence the not so chic grey.

As for hair, Hermione straightens and smooths her hair magically
before the Yule Ball in GoF but doesn't usually bother with it. And
doesn't she turn her wand into a blow dryer of sorts at some point to
dry either her hair or her robes? Or maybe it's wet socks. I seem to
recall that it happened after a walk in the snow to Hagrid's hut and back.

Carol, who apologizes for not looking up the page numbers. I can find
the first two passages easily enough if anyone wants them