Dobby servant for life

[christi0469]

No: HPFGUIDX 36853

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Kendra Grant-Bingham <kendra_grant at f...> 
wrote:
> kellybroughton said
> >"It state in COS chapter two--- "The Wizard family
> >Dobby serves, sir... DObby is a house-elf... bound to
> >serve one house and one family forever."~~~~~
> 
But house-elves do sometimes have to be relocated, or ther we be no 
Office for House-Elf Relocation (FB&WTFT)for Newt Scamander to work 
in. It doesn't happen very ofter, as the years he worked there 
were "tedious in the extreme", but it must happen. I imagine that 
house-elves normally transfer like any other property after the 
death of an owner and would go to the next of kin, but could not in 
Harry's case, as he is a minor going into the care of Muggles. 
Perhaps the Malfoy's would had to pay for Dooby, and that money 
(less a transaction fee to the House-Elf relocation Office) would 
have gone into Harry's account, and Dooby's relationship with the 
Potter's would have been legally severed. Legally, Dobby would have 
belonged to the Malfoy's. Of course, Dobby may just have belonged to 
the Malfoy's all along, but I can see him having belonged to the 
Potter's.  

Christi