[HPforGrownups] Re: timing of DEs' arrival at DoM (was: Snape and Occlumency)

[Jocelyn Grunow]

No: HPFGUIDX 121932

On Friday, January 14, 2005, at 05:58 pm, justcarol67 wrote:

> One tiny thing about that scene bothers me. The narrator says early on
> that Harry could see their eyes through slits in their hoods, which
> doesn't make much sense. Hoods go over the head and around the face,
> not over it. (Even Tolkien's Black Riders merely have huge hoods that
> would throw their faces into shadow if they had visible faces.) Later,
> though, JKR has at least three of them (Dolohov, MacNair, and
> Bellatrix) remove their masks, so clearly it's the mask, not the hood,
> that has slits for the eyes. A tiny detail, but as an editor, I'd have
> pointed it out and asked JKR to fix it or fixed it myself and queried
> it with "Edit okay?".

I was assuming that the hoods were more like the hoods you see in the 
classic depiction of executioners. Rather like a sack over the head 
with a slit for the eyes?  I have always heard that particular garment 
described as a hood, although it is quite different from the hood one 
thinks of in connection with a cloak.

Do you know the sort I mean, or should I try and hunt up a picture?

Jocelyn
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