socks

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 3104

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Susan McGee" <Schlobin at a...> wrote:
> Assuming Dumbledore was telling the truth about seeing himself
> with socks in the Mirror of Erised, what could he have meant?
> 
> Susan

There is a small discussion of this on the Harry Potter Lexicon's 
Mysteries page. I think the socks just might represent Dumbledore's 
desire to set the house-elves free from their enslavement so they can 
use their formidible magical powers against Voldemort. But hey, maybe 
sometimes a sock is just a sock and an earmuff is just an earmuff 
(remember him telling MacGonagall that Madam Pomfrey embarrassed him 
by complimenting his new earmuffs? Same sort of statement...)

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon