small thing in COS

[fanofminerva]

No: HPFGUIDX 97885

I recall reading several posts about this in the past but could not 
find the ones I remembered.  It is about a small thing JKR mentioned 
was in the movie and the book because it had plot value.  Many 
speculated it was the hand of glory, which made a lot of sense.  I 
just watched the movie again with my 3 year old son and noticed two 
things I had not noticed before and wondered if they were in canon.  
If so, I'd like to add these to the list of speculation.

First, when Dobby meets Harry in Privet Drive, Harry hides him in 
the closet when Uncle Vernon comes upstairs.  When Dobby walks out 
of the wardrobe, he has one of Harry's socks on his ear that he 
simply discards.  Knowing JKR and socks, I thought that was 
interesting.

Second, in the Chamber, I noticed Tom's robe had the Hogwart's 
crest, not the Slytherin crest.  I thought that was interesting 
given the "Small thing" is supposed to have predictive value.  
Couple that with the speculation of combining the Houses makes me 
wonder just which sides will combine them?  I always thought it 
would be to fight against LV (and I still do) but his robe threw a 
kink in my thought.  

So, I wanted to offer this as perhaps of getting this thread going 
again to see if the Hand has the consensus vote or what other 
speculations there may be.

Julie --who has the opening of POA programmed on my PDA