Albus Dumbledore and the Socks in the Mirror (of Erised)

[jksunflower2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 80386

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "msbeadsley" <msbeadsley at y...> 
wrote:
> siriuskase wrote:
> > What a wonderful post! ....... We can only hope DD survives to 
> > enjoy this world and be given socks for Christmas in the last 
scene.
> > Sue B
> 
> sbursztynski wrote:
> > I agree with Sue, great post.
> 
> Thanks.  As a matter of fact, although I really *wasn't* going to 
say 
> anything:  Steve Vander Ark thought so, too, and my little essay 
> (lightly edited) is now at the bottom of the Lexicon's Dumbledore 
> page.  My head has just about subsided now (unless I've gone right 
> off the mark into delusions of grandeur) from the dramatic 
swelling 
> it did over that (got Steve's email last Saturday).
> 
> > I'd like to comment on the timing of this.  He would no longer 
be 
> > able to answer Harry's question this way.  At that time, for all 
he 
> > knew, Voldemort wouldn't appear for many years, he had many 
years 
> > to enjoy Harry and prepare him for the future which was still 
out 
> > there somewhere in the distance.  I'd like to think that at some 
> > point, Dumbledore's concerns about Voldemort and Harry and the 
yet 
> > to be fulfilled prophecy will be over and someone (Harry?) will 
> > give him some socks.
> 
> So, as of OoP, what would Dumbledore be seeing in the Mirror?  
> Himself sitting companionably with Harry as a middle-aged father, 
> surrounded by a passel of young 'uns, ala Arthur Weasley, and so 
> obviously happy and healthy that there could be no doubt he won?  
I 
> don't know how else a world where Voldemort was nothing more than 
> history would be represented.  (And if the passel's mother were 
> shown, it would certainly solve some of the shippers' questions--
but 
> wait, the Mirror doesn't show the future...does it? <g>) [That 
could 
> be an argument for the G/H shippers, by the way, that Harry, who 
> never knew his family and saw himself in the Mirror surrounded by 
a 
> big one, would choose the wife more likely to be unfazed at the 
idea 
> of that passel.]
> 
> And I'd love to see in the "and they all, the ones who were left, 
> lived happily ever after" chapter, that Harry and Dumbledore 
> celebrate a tradition where Harry gives DD at least one pair of 
socks 
> for Christmas each year.
> 
> Sandy, aka "msbeadsley," eyeballing shelf space appropriate for 
her 
> Hugo, Pulitzer, and Nobel prizes...


I just couldn't bring myself to snip any of the above posts (loving 
the idea of DD surviving and me being an H/G shipper and all ;-))

I can now clearly picture DD as Harry does in GoF, chapter 2, "He 
amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long 
silver beard, full-length wizard's robes, and pointed hat, stretched 
out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long 
crooked nose."  

DD enjoying his well earned retirement.  Of course, now I'm 
picturing him wearing nice fuzzy socks, too.

Toad