Dobby's "slip of the tongue" (dialogue error)

[Anne R Urbanski]

Hello all, I just joined this list a few days ago and am really glad I
discovered it! I am also new on the main HP4GU list but am not currently
reading it because I haven't *quite* finished reading GoF (one chapter to
go and I'll finally be finished reading all 4 Harry Potter books to my
6-year-old daughter, which I've been doing since late July ... but I
digress..)

I have a question about one little snippet of Dobby's dialogue in CoS. I
don't recall exactly what scene this was in, but at one point Dobby and
Harry were talking about something, and Dobby referred to himself in
(shudder) the First Person! I thought perhaps I misheard it, but later I
asked my daughter, "Did Dobby say 'I' instead of 'Dobby'?" and she said,
yes he did, one time. Did anyone besides me notice this? I was shocked that
Dobby did not refer to himself in the third person, because as we know,
house-elves always refer to themselves in the third person.

Just wondering. I'll go back into the woodwork now:-)

Anne Urbanski
Madison, WI, USA
(I'm just wild about Harry,and Ron, and Hermione, etc. etc.... what do we
Harry Potter maniacs call ourselves?:-)




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