Magical knitting

[auroraalma]

No: HPFGUIDX 30958

I was just thinking of A Tale of Two Cities with Madame Defarge knitting  a roster of dead people and it made me think, ....

In HP there are a lot of socks and sweaters . Could there be some kind of magic knit into the sweaters or socks, some kind of 
protection. It would be really funny if that were a kind of armor in this story.

Mrs. Weasley knits all of her children and Harry sweaters, surely she wants to protect them. (Though Ron gives his away to Dobby- I 
hope that does not spell doom for Ron-  I like Ron :)  )Maybe the protection wears off after a while, which is why they get new ones 
every year. Or maybe the kids just outgrow them.

Dobby knits socks for Harry. Dobby, as an elf, has some pretty powerful magic available to him and certainly wants to protect Harry) 
and that wouldn't be going against Dumldore's wishes)


And now to the loonier theories:

1) Maybe the sock that Harry gave to Dobby becomes magical somehow because of its role in the liberation of Dobby, now Dobby 
has it so he would benifit from it.

2) A combination of the "somehow staying the Dursleys ( blood relatives) protects Harry theory' and the 'maybe Petunia doesn't really 
hate Harry after all' theory:

Harry wears Uncle Verenon's socks( and I am pretty sure he wears Dudley's as well) maybe they somehow protect him (if they were 
made by Petunia)
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And on another note: a  while back we were talking about how Petunia might have some magical ability that she tries to supress. In 
Cos Harry threatens a hedge with fake magic (hocus pocus etc) in from of Dudley. Dudley tattles and it says that Petunia knew he 
hadn't realy done any magic. How could she know for sure, so quickly, without investigating?

I'd love to hear your thoughts,
 Aurora who wishes her knitting could be protective or at least reasonably even