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An Albus drabble. One possible (if highly unlikely) explanation for what he sees in the Mirror.

The kinder ones just thought he was crazy. Senility, they’d whisper to each other. It’s quite common with age, you know, and he is well past a hundred and fifty. Perhaps we should ask Poppy...

His less-polite colleagues were certain that it was a lie, that “socks” were a substitute for some dark, perverse predilection. After all, look at his brother. Goats, for Merlin’s sake!

Perverse? Perhaps, but not a lie. When Albus Dumbledore looked in the Mirror of Erised, he did indeed see socks--

--lying at the feet of four entirely naked members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.