Albus Dumbledore and the Socks

[sylviablundell2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 80454

I was quite charmed by Sandy's sweet explanation but wonder if we are 
all looking for something that isn't there.It seemed to me on reading 
this passage that DD simply doesn't want to tell Harry what he sees 
in the Mirror of Erised, and says the first light-hearted thing that 
comes into his head.  It does say at the end of the chapter "It was 
only when he was back in bed that it struck Harry that Dumbledore 
might nothave been quite truthful.  But then, he thought, as he 
shoved Scabbers off his pillow, it had been quite a personal 
question."
The next thing, of course, is to speculate exactly what DD did see in 
the Mirror if it wasn't socks.
Sylvia (who really likes Sandy's theory, after all the ghastly things 
that have been happening in Harry's world and our own)