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

[Morag Traynor]

No: HPFGUIDX 17381

John Walton wrote:


>
>Well, Morag, we've never had *this* particular discussion before ::big
>grin::
Yeah, well *g* I'm not making any claims for originality here, I just wanted 
to say some stuff.
>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.

I agree about the hum-drum thing.  There's a point where, at the Burrow, Ron 
tips Harry's stuff onto the bed.  There's schoolbooks, money and socks.  
Nothing exciting (to a wizard, that is - I'd love an hour in Flourish and 
Blotts! :) ), but all essential.
>
>--John
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>"One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place."
>-'Mick Travers', Malcolm McDowell's character in "If..." (1968)
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>John Walton -- john at walton.to
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