Robe Malfunction

[deborahhbbrd]

No: HPFGUIDX 126306


> Angie wrote:
> > OK, the subject is a little tongue-in-cheek but this really 
> > bugs me -- don't wizards/witches wear clothes under their 
> > robes?
>
> Shaun wrote (#126212): 
> By coincidence, during my recent readthrough of the books I 
> gathered all the information I could find on this. There's a
> rather mixed bag of information there.
> <major, major snip>


My guess is that since JKR is Scottish, she'd be (a) totally
accustomed to large, hairy gentlemen (and those who wish to emulate
them) strolling through snowstorms wearing nothing under their kilts,
and (b) accustomed also to all the jokes that this strange ethnic
habit gives rise to. No, I didn't mean that, I meant: all the jokes
that it generates. Er ... maybe I didn't mean that either.

And kilts are shorter than wizard robes - on the knee, or as far down
as the top of knee-length socks. So a wiz in a robe would be better
off than a Scottish RSM in a kilt.

For those who know about cricket, when Dr Ali Bacher was still a
player here in South Africa - late 60s, early 70s - he needed an extra
bowler and got Lee Irvine to oblige, which meant that Ali had to keep
wicket. Down he went behind the stumps, and the crowd erupted in evil
delight: he'd strapped his pads too tight, so his flannels burst, and
he was wearing nothing underneath, as was all too evident! (Apologies
to the rest of you!)

Deborah