socks

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 3105

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Vander Ark" wrote:

> There is a small discussion of [Dumbledore seeing socks in the
> Mirror of Erised} 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

My friend Lee suggested that Dumbledore himself is a House Elf (that 
explains why he has such powerful magic) who was Transfigured into a 
human by his friend Nicolas Flamel, and the socks represent his own 
desire to be legitimately freed.

I once made up a theory (that doesn't mean that I believe it myself) 
that Dumbledore's late mother (or his late wife!) used to knit him a 
new pair of socks as his present every Christmas. He was never all 
that thrilled with the socks themselves, but sees his current, 
elderly, self holding a NEW pair of those socks in the Mirror -- 
meaning that his wish is that his mother (or wife) was still alive, 
thus able to make NEW unpleasant socks.