In GOF, Ron gets second hand dress robes...but ginny got???

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 135372

Snapeo'phile wrote:
>  In GOF, we learn poor Ron has to have tatty second hand dress 
robes, 
> which of course he is mortified to wear. BUT when Ginny goes to the 
> Yule Ball with Neville, what is she wearing? Because, she wouldn't 
> have gotten dress robes(even second hand ones) because she wasn't
of 
> age to go to the ball. Also, when she is seen at the ball, no one 
says 
> anything about her robes. Is this a case of the only girl getting 
> pampered and her poor brother getting the shaft?

Ginger, remembering days long ago, responds:

Have you ever been in a girls' dorm on a Saturday night?  (Guys, you 
don't have to admit to this if it will incriminate you.)  As soon as 
the call goes out "I have nothing to wear!" about a dozen heads pop 
out of doors, at least half of which are attached to bodies of 
similar size to the one who is purportedly naked.  (That's the heads 
that are attached, not the doors.)  

The next thing you know, the unrobed lass is surrounded by clothes.
Dress robes don't seem to be the sort of thing that people have a 
lot of, but there's no reason why someone with a couple of older 
sisters didn't get 2 sets of hand-me-downs.  Perhaps an older 
student had an outgrown set.  Personally, since Angelina is going to 
the ball with Fred, and is older, I think she'd be a good candidate 
for robe donor.

I'd bet money that a dorm full of girls could do alterations better 
than Ron, who didn't even try until the last minute.

Or...since this popped into my head... Does anyone remember the 
Carol Burnett episode where she is Scarlet O'Hara, and comes down 
the stairs dressed in curtains with the rod still in them?  "I saw 
them in a window and couldn't resist."  Worked in the Sound of Music 
too, come to think of it.  Great, now I'm going to have visions of 
Ginny at the ball dressed in my shower curtain.

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