Privit Drive Safety Zone and Dobby

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 36740

--- 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.
> 
> So HOW did Dobby get in in ChoS? Agreed, he didn't physically harm 
> Harry, but he was able to intercept mail, cast magic on a pudding, 
> and do some elf-magic equivalent of Apparation. Shouldn't the magic 
> protect Harry from this?
> 
> Opinions?
> Uncmark

There has been quite a bit of talk about the powers of Dobby in 
particular and elves in general, and the theory I prefer is the one 
that states that elves posses much more powerful magic than humans. 
That would explain why they can apparate in Hogwarts, and how was Dobby 
able to do all the magic at the beggining of CoS. Whatever the ancient 
magic may be, it doesn't affect elf powers (nothing so far can affect 
it except for the explicit order of the elf's owner).

Of course, now you can be thinking (at least _I_ would be thinking): 
Why these creatures, holders of the most amazing powers, allowed 
themselves to be enslaved? The complete theory can be found in message 
34879 (my theory, that is), but boiled down it says that elves were too 
powerfull to control themselves and voluntarily placed themselves into 
thralldom to stop themselves from missusing their powers.

Hope that helps

Grey Wolf