Ravenclaw Student

Harry Potter

Robe by: Licensed costume (Universal)

Vest by: iPlayCos

Skirt by: Store bought (Land's End)

Custom wand by: Galdurwand

Appeared: New York Comic Con 2016

I've had the sweater vest for so long that I'm not 100% sure where it comes from--I think it was a Christmas gift from iPlayCos. The same goes for the tie, which I believe is licensed, but bought off eBay ages ago. The white shirt, of course, came from the approximately three million I have left over from my Catholic high school days. I bought the robe new--I had originally bought an XXS from a buyer on Bonanza, but the hem and the sleeves were just a bit too short, so I ended up reselling it, and buying an XS from Wizarding World Orlando's online store, complete with patch. The skirt was tricky; I wanted the Prisoner of Azkaban style, because my vest is a dark charcoal gray, rather than the lighter grays of the earlier movies, but that meant I needed to find an A-line box pleated skirt instead of the regular pleats. Land's End sells a wide variety of school uniform skirts, and I managed to find one that hung almost the exact same way, that was a close enough shade to my vest that you really can't tell the difference in person. DJ Ranma S had linked a pair of Mary Jane flats he found on AliExpress to me while I was shopping for my Maki - maid costume, and while they were wrong for that outfit, they were perfect for the PoA school uniforms. Finally, I asked my soul-sister's husband to make me a custom wand; after asking me a bunch of questions, and discussing it in depth with Hime-chan, he created two wands, one that lights up but it slightly stockier, and one that doesn't but is slightly more elaborate and slender, both of which are just gorgeous beyond belief.