Dobby's history

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Allison" <nosillaps13 at y...> wrote:
> Florence wrote:
> > I just had a wild idea that perhaps Dobby (or his father/mother) 
> had 
> > previously belonged to the Potters and was relocated to the 
Malfoys 
> > after the Godrics Hollow massacre.
> > 
> > James Potter was from an old wizarding family and might have 
owned 
> a 
> > house elf?  Could this explain why Dobby is such a fan of Harry?
> 
> 
> Maybe, but I doubt it.  Dobby says he is a fan of Harry's because 
> Harry's defeat of V. changed the way house-elves were treated, 
Dobby 
> himself being the exception.  
> 
> And in the 4th book, doesn't Winky say her mother and her 
grandmother 
> both served the Crouches?  I think house-elves probably get one 
> family (or school or business, like Hogwarts) and that family 
serves 
> it until they're released or fired.
> 
> Allison

  Which raises the question of who Winky's father was and, for that 
matter, the one of how house elves reproduce seing as there rarely 
seems to be more than one elf per household. Do their masters get 
them to breed or do they only have one parent ?
  As for Dobby once being the Potter's elf, I like the idea but 
wouldn't the shame of surviving his familly drive even an 
unconventional elf to suicide ? Besides, hell, high water and 
Dumbledore combined wouldn't have kept him from Harry for so long in 
that case.
 
Alice