[HPforGrownups] Dobby's attire

[Scott Smith]

No: HPFGUIDX 192260




> Brad:
> I'm sure someone somewhere has addressed this, but a recent re-reading of CoS made me wonder. Chapter two makes it clear that Dobby's improvised garment is a pillowcase (it's first referred to as being "like a pillowcase," but later is unambiguously a pillowcase).

> Dobby has made rips in it "for his arms and legs".

> But...wouldn't he wear it by sliding it down over his head (presumably there is a rip for his head, too)? Then there wouldn't need to be rips for his legs.

> Unless he pulls it up like a sack...but then the "neck" would be way too big and there would be a need for something to close it, which is not mentioned.

> I know, I obsess over strange details....


Z:
I seem to remember a drawing in one of the books where Dobby had
pulled a pillow case up and tied knots on either side to make the
opening smaller and a wide almost scoop neck.  That would account
for the arm and leg holes.

-Z

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