SHIP: Dobby/Winky

[rosie]

No: HPFGUIDX 39974

I don't know if this has been suggested before, but what about Dobby/Winky?

They are the only house elves we actually know anything about, and while
they seem to have very different attitudes in GOF (Dobby loves freedom/Winky
thinks it's very shameful), now the Crouches are dead, maybe Winky will
loosen up a bit?
Even though Harry says its hard to tell the sex of house elves, they do seem
to have families etc - Winky talks about her mother and grandmother serving
the Crouches before her. Dobby seems to be a strapping young house elf
making his way ahead in the WW. Could his next stop be a lovely,
squashed-tomato-nose girlfriend?

They paired up to seek work - suggesting friendship, at least - and he
certainly seems very concerned about her: at the end of GOF, when Winky is
distraught, Dumbledore advises in a meaningful sort of way that Dobby will
probably look after her. Why Dobby? Assuming Winky knows any of the other
elves at Hogwarts yet, wouldn't her girl-elf friends be in a better position
to comfort her than Dobby, who Winky is always saying is "bad"?

Dobby is definitely someone who is very caring and protective (the Gillyweed
episode, the beautiful hand-knitted socks), and with Crouch Jnr out of the
picture, Winky needs someone to look after. She was used to a more personal
involvement with people than the rest of the house elves, who seem to just
cook and clean. Could Dobby and baby elves be the way ahead?

Rosie