Dobby's attire

[Brad]

No: HPFGUIDX 192261

> > 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.

> 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.


Brad:
In the chapter illustration, his pillowcase has rips for his arms, knots at the shoulder corners, and a kind of Nehru collar for his neck(!), but his legs come from the open end of the pillowcase.