[HPforGrownups] Everything you've always wanted to know about Socks

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 17163

on 4/19/01 10:44 PM, Morag Traynor at moragt at hotmail.com wrote:

> So, what do socks symbolise?  Love?  Freedom?  Redemption?  Anyway, you can
> be sure they're NOT WHAT THEY SEEM!

Well, Morag, we've never had *this* particular discussion before ::big
grin:: You make some really interesting points -- I particularly thought of
the sock as resembling the hum-drum of daily life ("What's that dear?
Another odd sock?") of which Harry has been deprived during his stay with
the Dursleys, and for which (IMHO) he yearns. Ergo why Molly Weasley washes
his socks, Dobby (the height of domestic servitude) only gets one when he's
due to be freed, etc.

Just some thoughts.

--John
____________________________________________

"One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place."
-'Mick Travers', Malcolm McDowell's character in "If..." (1968)

John Walton -- john at walton.to
____________________________________________