knitting (was Re:Online excerpts from the audio books

[Zelda Zunk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...>
wrote:
>
> , "Zelda Zunk" wrote:
> >
> > My local yarn shop will be doing a knit-a-long with the Harry
Potter
> > audio books.  We will be knitting "Mrs. Weaseley's Bag of Stitch
> > Witchery" from Charmed Knits as our first project.  I've heard
> nothing
> > but great things about Jim Dale and the audio books.  I'm so
excited.
>
>
> Potioncat:
> I was once attempting to write a post about the symolism around
Snape
> in HBP: spiders/spinners/weaving/knitting. Never managed to write
the
> post but realised that most of Snape's canon supporters are
knitters:
> Molly, Hermione, Hagrid, Dumbledore.
>
> Kathy


Kath,  indeed there has been a lot of symbolism surrounding the
knitting in Harry Potter.  I think that Jo Rowling has definately
made an impression with all the knit symbolism.  I love how the Mrs.
Weasley has made everything.  Clunky, chunky knits.  That homemade
feeling of a mother's love.  Home, home, family, family.  Harry's
lack of love in the Dursley home.  Harry's search for home, family,
love.

Another interesting fact is that most of the people in the knit-a-
long are sorted into Griffyndor and Hufflepuff.  The other two houses
are barely represented.  However, when it comes to groups online,
Snape is by far the most loved/feared/admired. I hadn't thought about
the spinning, weaving but the same terms apply to telling a story.

spinning a tale, oh what a wicked tale we weave, tangled web/skein.
All related to knitting.

curious,

Zelda Zunk
Corsets & Capes