No Robes? and a Plea for Assistance

[rj_anderson]

Some people are already carping about these pics from the Prisoner of Azkaban set. "The kids aren't wearing robes!"

Well, no, and they aren't wearing their hats (thank goodness -- those things are ugly!) or carrying book-bags either. Hermione might have a book with her -- it's hard to tell -- but if she does it's only one book. Which, given H.'s unusually punishing schedule that year and her need to carry a full bag of books to all her classes, implies that this scene takes place after classes, or possibly even on a weekend. In which case the students wouldn't be wearing robes anyway.

I would be surprised if Cuaron (the director) had banished the robes entirely.

And I also like Draco's newly floppy hair, but that's a different story. :)

In unrelated news, I am now editing Personal Risks to bring it up to OotP standard. I don't suppose there's anybody out there who's read the new book a couple of times already and would be interested in looking through my revision to see if I've missed anything? I keep checking the Lexicon to try and avoid any glaring mistakes, but I have a nervous feeling I'm overlooking some important considerations...

Comments

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I think the thing that's bothering us about the no-robes thing is that they seem to be wearing Muggle clothes *more* often than in previous movies-- and in situations where they wouldn't.

It looks to me as though pretty much all the pics we've seen so far are from the same part of the story, and the events they portray take place on the same day. The kids always seem to be wearing exactly the same outfits. So I don't know if we can take one day's events as "wearing Muggle clothes more often". All we can say is that on the day the Trio enters the Shrieking Shack and confronts Sirius, etc., they are wearing Muggle clothes. And that at some point during that day McGonagall stops Harry to speak to him... but like I said before, it could easily be a weekend, or after classes.

Anyway, it's certainly not the first time we've seen the kids wearing Muggle clothes when they're not in class -- such as the whole "we've got to stop Snape getting the stone" sequence in PS/SS, when Hermione is wearing that ghastly 80's looking sweater.

I'll reserve judgment until I've seen the film. But to be honest, I don't really care. As long as the kids still wear their robes in the classroom, it won't bother me a bit.