Socks

[katie_wible]

No: HPFGUIDX 60408


> Laura Metslover wrote:
> 
> << One other mini-thing, I think we're going to find out what's so 
> cool about socks. But maybe I just think that because I'm 
personally 
> dying to know. >>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:

> We may never find out why sock are so cool TO JKR, but my theory 
> about Dumbledore seeing himself with socks in the Mirror of Erised 
> is that they weren't just any old socks: they were a new pair of 
> the hideously ugly hand-knit socks that his beloved late mother or 
> beloved late wife used to give him for Christmas every year, and 
his 
> heart's desire is to still be with the giver, not to have the socks.
> 
Me:

   I think that the whole thing about Dumbledore seeing socks is 
major symbolism. I think that all he really wants is to be free of 
the burden of finally killing Voldemort(or something to that effect, 
like saving all of the wizarding world). It is just like Dobby 
getting his sock from Malfoy Sr. Dobby is now free to do whatever he 
wants, and I think that is why Dubledore wants "socks". He doesn't 
necessarily want the socks, he wants the freedom that comes along 
with those figurative socks. I figure that it is an easy way for the 
Mirror of Erised to show Dumbledore what he really wants, because he 
probably can get the symbolism better than say Harry would if he were 
shown socks. (But i think Dumbledore would not need the Mirror to 
tell him this.)

    I could also be really wrong, and Dumbledore doesn't need 
anything but to relax with a nice warm pair of socks this weekend.

Katie