[HPforGrownups] Re: Why buy Ron Maroon? (Was: Why buy 5 sets of Lockhart's book?

[Kethryn]

No: HPFGUIDX 113816

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> 
wrote:
>>>Maybe Ron has never told her that he hates that color. If he had I 
think she would have given him a different color. (I think orange is 
an ugly color, myself.)  Maroon goes more with the Gryffindor colors 
than orange and maybe Maroon goes better with his other clothes. 
Also, I know a large family that had a different "favorite" color 
for each kid. So if the 5th one came along and blue and green and 
red was already taken.. they had to choose another color. Seems odd 
to me, but that is the way that family did thing. So maybe it is 
something like that. Also with a large family if each kid has his 
own color it would be easier to do the laundry and get it back to 
the right person.

As to the robes. Molly like most adults probably doesn't know what 
is "in". And this is the wizard world. Men might well wear lace on 
their robes, we don't know.

I think Molly is a kind and loving mother. Like most teens Ron shows 
that Mom just is not in touch with the younger generation and their 
styles. That is not unusual in the Muggle world and I doubt that it 
is any different in the wizard world. <<<

Hi guys, again new to the board here and I don't know if anyone 
mentioned this in the thread so far but the Weasleys (senior)
are fairly notorious for having bad clothing tastes...mostly they 
"wore long robes in varying states of shabbiness" (GoF p 40).  So 
Molly could have no clue but I also think it's a part of that whole
"you get what you can afford and you like it" thing that is part of
being in a large family.  And, if the second hand stores in Diagon
Alley are anything like the Goodwill, for example, then there won't 
be a whole lot of selection.  Of course, why she just doesn't make
them is beyond me...maybe sewing is not something that can be done 
with magic or maybe you have to learn it as a muggle skill first or
something like that...

Anyways, my two cents...

Kethryn









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