Privet Drive Safety Zone and Dobby

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No: HPFGUIDX 36723

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ecuman24" <ecuamerican at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "uncmark" <uncmark at y...> wrote:
> > I have a question about the supposed safety zone at No. 4 Privit 
> > Drive. According to Voldemort himself in GoF, he could not attack 
> > Harry at the Dursley's "Dumbledore invoked an ancient magic to 
> ensure 
> > the boy's protection as long as he is in his relations care." 
GofF 
> > Ch. 33.
> 
> 
> Dumbledore may have put the "ancient spell" against only Voldemort 
> and his Death Eaters and any enemy.  That way Dobby, a lowly house 
> elf and therefore not an enemy of Harry, could not have been 
> affected.  Dumbledore had access to Voldemort and DE paraphernalia 
via 
> the loveable Snape to put the spell.

But wasn't Dobby an agent of Lucius Malfoy, who was a known Death 
Eater?

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