What confuses me is that they can't seem to discover things about the Muggle worlds. At all. They have some kind of mental block, so that obvious things fail to occur to them. There are Muggle-born wizards. Surely they'd be consulted regarding clothing. It's heavily implied Ogden himself is half-blood, so why couldn't he ask a parent?
I was actually thinking about dialogue, too. Half of it is in semi-current (if slightly idealised) British slang. I thought perhaps Muggle-borns would bring in new slang, but that would mean somehow, wizards pick up inherently Muggle phrases, yet miss out on clothing. Even if Muggle-borns adapt to wearing wizarding robes thanks to their obvious magical superiority, there would be some, somewhere, who would continue to wear the clothes they're comfortable in for a while at least.
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Date: 2005-12-08 02:06 pm (UTC)I was actually thinking about dialogue, too. Half of it is in semi-current (if slightly idealised) British slang. I thought perhaps Muggle-borns would bring in new slang, but that would mean somehow, wizards pick up inherently Muggle phrases, yet miss out on clothing. Even if Muggle-borns adapt to wearing wizarding robes thanks to their obvious magical superiority, there would be some, somewhere, who would continue to wear the clothes they're comfortable in for a while at least.