Imagine my surprise and delight when I saw that Opal yarns has come out with a line of Harry Potter sock yarns! Imagine my disappointment and dismay when I realized that they were just regular sock yarns with a Harry Potter label on them. The colorway shown to the left is called "Lupin". Really? I don't see anything particularly Lupiny about it. In fact, it looks like a sunrise, which is the exact opposite of what you'd think of when thinking of a werewolf.

The "Harry" colorway is just some blue stripes, "Tonks" is just some pink stripes, you get the idea. The only one they happened to get right was 'Ron" (orange and brown stripes) but only because it looks like some of the outfits he's worn in the movies. The "Hedwig" colorway is probably the furthest fetched. Despite being pretty, there's not a hint of snowy white to be found. For some reason they chose browns and greys instead.

I know that Hogwarts house colors is kind of an overdone theme at this point, but would it have KILLED Opal to give us a burgundy and gold stripe? Or anything not made up from thin air, like Snitch-gold? Dumbledore's-flamboyantly-cut suit-purple? Snape's-underpants-gray? What a rip off.

(I'll probably end up buying some anyway because I am a sucker.)