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

[Paige Meeker]

No: HPFGUIDX 135532


> Samantha wrote:
> 
> Hi Potterphiles!
> 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?


Hi,

I've been reading and enjoying all the comments and y'all have made 
me feel better about the Snape/DD ending - I was crushed before!  
Now, I'm intrigued and excited to read the next book.  

Samantha and Potterphiles question Ginny's dress robes here - I know 
as a girl my friends and I would sometimes borrow each other's 
clothes.  Ginny seems well connected and very outgoing - she could 
have borrowed them.  The Weasley's don't have a lot of money for 
frivolous things and except for this reference, I believe that Ginny 
has also always gotten things second hand - her books in COS, for 
example.  However, she will have to obtain somethings new that her 
brothers do not - with 5 others before Ron, I'm sure there are a lot 
of hand-me-downs!

Paige