socks

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 7716

> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Scott " <harry_potter00 at y...> 
> wrote:
> > Susan McGee wrote:
> > "Given that Professor Dumbledore states that if he saw himself in 
> the 
> > Mirror of Erised, he would be holding a pair of thick wool socks, 
> > might he have been a house elf? Perhaps there is a progressions 
> where 
> > House Elf becomes Wizard, and that is a progresion which is 
> > particularly powerful.

We take for granted the privileges we have, and desire only those we 
do not. The enslaved Dobby would yearn for socks - but what need 
would the liberated Dobby have for them, beside the mere utilitarian 
purpose of keeping his feet warm? Would any person be strong enough 
to look into the Mirror of Erised ("Desire") to see only that which 
he already had? 

I doubt that Dumbledore was ever a house elf. He hasn't the proper 
accent, the proper nose, and has yet to bang his head. 

    - CMC