socks

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No: HPFGUIDX 3236

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Neil Ward <neilward at d...> wrote:
> Regarding socks:
> 
> Susan said: "Maybe it's a thing about the British not having 
central heating
> and their feet always being cold."
 If Book Seven is
> called "Harry Potter and the Kneesocks of Fear" we'll know for sure.
> 
> Neil
> 

My 2 knuts;
 Thanks to movie stills we know know that Hogwarts students wear what 
to my American eyes look like regular English school uniforms under 
their robes.
 Dumbledore was indeed shooing off Harry's curiosity.
 Therefore, he ALMOST exhorted Harry to "pull your socks up, boy!", 
but realized at the last moment that Hogwarts' boys haven't been 
requited to wear shorts/ knee socks for decades (can't you just see 
Dumble forgetting about something like that, especially if he changed 
the policy himself?).
 Dumbledore being such a powerful wizard, his words have a magic of 
their own, and "socks" just -escaped- knowing it'd be important later.