Do trolls have tailors?

[bohcoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 89467

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ladyramkin2000" 
<ladyramkin2000 at y...> wrote:

In message 89461, Sylvia wrote:
> Re-reading The Philosopher's Stone, I came across something that 
> seems to have passed me by on the first umpteen readings. It's on 
> Page 130 when Harry retrieves his wand from the troll's nostril.

> . " He bent down and pulled his wand out of the troll's nose.  It 
> was covered in what looked like lumpy grey glue.
 
> "Urgh - troll bogies."
 
> He wiped it on the troll's trousers"
  
> The troll's trousers...The troll's trousers!!!!I had always 
> imagined that the troll, if it wore anything at all, would be 
> sporting a loin cloth, like the cave troll in LOTR.  So where would
> a troll's trousers come from?  Is there a special trolls' 
> outfitter? I should imagine they would have to be made to order, 
> given the unusual measurements of your average troll. I have now 
> got this damned stupid picture in my mind of the troll wearing 
> jeans.
> 
> Sylvia 


Bohcoo:
I just loved your post, Sylvia! Now that you mention it, where DID 
the troll get his britches? When reading the book, I, too, did not 
picture the troll clothed. In the movie, I was so overwhelmed by the 
fact that Harry wiped the troll boogers on his own robe that I didn't 
give another thought to the absence of the troll's "trousers."

She should have said, "Troll's leg, chest, arm," anything 
but "trousers." So, it seems we had ourselves a GQ troll. . .

Isn't that why we all keep rereading the books over and over? For me, 
something I have read fifteen times and never paid attention to will 
hit me the same way those Troll Trousers hit you. And, then you 
think -- "Is this significant? Is this a clue? Did anyone else notice 
this -- and, if so, what did they make of it?" 

Thanks for the good eye and for sharing yet another little JKR 
mystery to think about!

Bohcoo