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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