[HPforGrownups] Dobby

[Starling]

No: HPFGUIDX 18744

I am studying for my history final tomorrow (Modern and Contempoary US History) and came upon a very interesting tidbit while reviewing my notes on McCarthyism, which i somehow overlooked before.

in 1970, a young lawyer named Doris Brin Walker was elected the first female president of the National Lawyers Guild, a leftist group.  She had trouble over the years finding jobs because of her leftist activities and support of unions, and ended up being fired from her position as a label clerk at a plant for Cutter Labs in Berkley, due to her attempt to organize a union.
Her nickname:  Dobby.

hmmm.. <g>  I saw that nickname and started frantically reading.  I think there's a whole section of the Bartle Library that wants me strangled now ;-).  I know the odds of JKR having encountered a reference to Ms. Walker is rather slim, but then again, she has so many puns and references in HP that I would not at all be surprised.

Abbie, who is heading back to her all-nighter, hoping there'll be more fun HP tidbits to relieve the boredom.
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