Where do teachers live?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 97576

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> Potioncat:  " What gets me is whether they [the students] wear Muggle
> type clothing under the  robes (as in the movies) or whether the robes
> are their clothes.(as  in the Pensieve scene.)"
> 
> The Muggle-borns wear Muggle clothes under the robes almost for sure,
> and the wizard borns often don't, is my guess.  I think that it's
> little things like this and big things too that offend the
> "purebloods" as they watch Muggle culture influence wizard culture. 


Carol:
That's would be my guess, too, except that IIRC the boys ask Hermione
to leave so they can change to their robes in the first Hogwarts
Express scene in SS/PS, so it sounds as if they intend to take off the
Muggle clothes. I'm guessing that even the pureblood students probably
wear Muggle clothes for the trip to and from the Hogwarts Express but
not the rest of the time--except for shoes, socks, and underwear. The
Muggle-borns probably follow their example after a while--maybe when
they see the lousy job the House Elves have done laundering their
Muggle clothes. ;-)

Some of the older purebloods apparently skip even the underwear:
Remember old Archie at the Tri-Wizard tournament who won't exchange
his flowered nightgown for a pair of Muggle trousers because he "likes
a nice breeze around his privates"?  

I also don't think that the robes are open at the front as they're
depicted in the American editions. I think they're more like a
graduation gown that you pull over your head, which explains how Mr.
Weasley could put his on back-to-front and need help getting it on
right. Also, if the robes were open, everybody present would have been
able to see Harry's mismatched socks at the Yule Ball and Crouch!Moody
wouldn't have bothered to comment on them, and the girls would have
wanted to wear fancy gowns under their dress robes, but we don't hear
any mention of it. No school uniforms, either; just plain black robes
for everyday wear.

Carol, who dislikes the overuse of Muggle clothes in the upcoming PoA
film and wonders why JKR okayed it