[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry Potter, REALLY for Grown-Ups (well, PG-13 anyway)

[OctobersChild48 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 164415




> 
> Then Geoff said:
> > I don't think that proves - or disproves - anything.
> > 
> > I'm sure that on a warm Saturday afternoon or after classes on a 
> summer 
> > day, many of the boys would have their shirts off whiling away their 
> time 
> > down on the grass by the lake,
> >
> 
> 

Sandy responds:

Geoff, while I so hate to disagree with you, there is absolutely no cannon to 
support such a view and, furthermore, I think there is a little bit of movie 
contamination here. The kids at Hogwarts wear wizard robes and, based on 
Snape's Worst Memory, they wear nothing under them but undergarments. When James so 
unceremoniously yanked Snape in the air upside-down you will recall that it 
revealed his dingy, gray underpants. It is only in the movies that the kids 
wear uniforms under their robes. Therefore, if the male students were basquing 
around the lake bare-chested, they would be doing so in nothing but their 
underwear. Even in the second task of the TWT the students entered the lake in their 
robes. 

This is actually one of the things that irks me about the medium that must 
not be mentioned. With each subsequent movie the kids spend more and more time 
in mugglewear and less in wizard's robes. I love the whole concept of the 
robes, so this really irritates me. 

In response to Bart's original message, which I have snipped completely. As a 
mature adult, I take for granted that there is hanky-panky going on at 
Hogwarts, but I, personally, am glad it is off-page. It would add nothing to the 
story but wasted page space, and there was altogether too much of that with the 
endless wasted pages of the Ron/Lavender snogging. I don't need graphic 
descriptions of kids doing what kids do, and JKR is not too strong with that kind of 
thing anyway. As someone who is totally disgusted with Dan's decision to do 
Equus, I am eternally grateful that I don't have to put up with like material in 
the books. 

But, I digress from book and cannon...

Sandy


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