Dobby & being picky

[joanne0012]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "PrncsPnut" <jprescot at u...> wrote:
> Though the book does mention that Dobby isn't the best looking 
> creature in the world, i thought he would have been a bit more cuddly.
> I guess my vision of Dobby was that he was so ugly, he was cute.

Exactly.  IIRC, the books mention several times that Harry feels emotionally 
sympathetic towards Dobby, which is difficult with this animated creature, who 
seems almost mechanical.  It's as if the animators went to a palette of skin 
textures and accidentally chose "dinosaur" or, eek, "Jar-Jar" rather than 
something relatively human like "old lady" or "goblin".  Dobby is a weirder shape 
than the Gringott's goblins, hence the animation rather than actors, but still he's 
at least equally deserving of being portrayed as a, um, humanoid.