Hogwarts Hunks

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 191588



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
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> > Dear Pippin
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> > You say "Yellowish fabric needn't be dirty --  cheap cotton discolors with age and exposure to sunlight on the clothesline."
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> > OH STOP!!!  Even Lily told him to wash his underwear sometimes! This was after Harry's father and Sirius had been tormenting him. It was in the memory that Harry Saw. How long are you going to deny what is fact. It wasn't yellowish, it was GRAY! And Snape still apparently had not discovered Shampoo by adulthood-- or for that matter a charm to clean hair.
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> Pippin:
> Argh! You are right and I apologize -- that's what happens when I decide I'm too busy to check the books before posting a theory. Serve me right. 
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> Dirty blood vs dirty underwear, nyah, nyah, nyah. Not one of the great moments in Hogwarts intellectual discourse. But Lily's sneer is no more a fact than Snape's was -- they're both expressing an opinion. 
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> Pippin
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> Pippin
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Nikkalmati

I'm puzzled.  I thought the House Elves did everybody's washing, so no one would need to wash their own underwear.  Grey underwear is typical of old underwear that has been washed many times (probably without being sorted into whites and colors).  I think it showed that Snape was too poor to buy new stuff.  Lily?  I hate to say it, but I think she was just being nasty in a way she knew would hurt Snape.

Nikkalmati