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

[Jenny H]

No: HPFGUIDX 121934



Carol notes:
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?".

Carol 

Jenny here:
There could have been eye slits in hoods. The Klu Klux Klan wore white hoods
(not masks) with slits. It was a hood, as you described, that went over the head
and around the face, but there was an extra flap attached to the top front of
the hood that drapped down to cover the face. In fact, when I read this, that
was the image that immediately popped into my head: KKK hoods, only black
instead of white.

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