[HPforGrownups] Re: Mirror of Erised

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 191289

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Geoff <geoffbannister123 at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
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> > On 8/23/2011 3:30 AM, Duane Broughton wrote:
> > > It is easy to say that he sees himself with his sister, but maybe he
> > > sees himself with all the hallows. Maybe he sees himself with
> > > Grindelwald in a world dominated by wizards and muggles as slaves etc.
> > > Remember it shows your desire not your wishes, what do people think??
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> Bart:
> > My belief: He sees himself, looking at the mirror, looking at
> > himself holding a pair of thick woolen socks.
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> Geoff:
> Dumbledore says:
> "It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate
> desire of our hearts."
> (PS "The Mirror of Erised" p.157 UK edition)
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> Hm. Well, sorry, but I just don't believe his greatest and most
> desperate desire is a pair of thick woollen socks.
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> HIs excuse:
> "One can never have enough socks... Another Christmas has come
> and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving
> me books."
> (Ibid.)
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> So what's to stop him nipping into Hogsmeade and buying himself half
> a dozen pairs?

Maybe a pair of hand-knitted woollen socks was his perennial Christmas
present from his mother and/or sister.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean56 at gmail.com>