WW Cultural bias re clothes and cupboard?
kjirstem
stonehenge.orders at verizon.net
Wed Jan 26 21:39:20 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 123121
pippin wrote:
>
> Y'know, all we can really point to, besides the lack of love, which
> even DD couldn't do anything about, is the clothes and the
> cupboard. But would the wizards recognize those as
> mistreatment?
>
<snip about the clothes, agree>
>
> Ditto for the cupboard. Where do the Slytherin kids sleep? In a
> windowless dungeon, for heavens sake. Arthur Weasley's office
> doesn't have a window either. Bog-standard for wizards, it
> seems.
>
> Would Dumbledore's watchers know that Muggle clothing isn't
> supposed to look like loose elephant skin and it's generally
> considered unhealthy for Muggle kids to sleep in a windowless
> room?
kjirstem:
Not to mention all the magical space expansion that is common in the
WW. I'm thinking of the tent used at the QWC that appeared to be a
small two-person tent on the outside but that resembled a flat on the
inside. There's also the incredible capacity of the Anglia, IIRC.
The WW folks seem to accept that sort of spatial non-linearity without
a second thought, so why would a cupboard be any different? Pippin's
observations make a lot of sense to me.
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