Dark Lord, Dobby as a Spy

[bohcoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 55292

Dark Lord:  Has anyone else noticed that whenever anyone refers to 
Voldemort as "The Dark Lord" it is a tip-off that the person 
speaking is either a Death Eater or supporter? No one else uses the 
term "Dark Lord" in reference to Voldemort:
 
GOF, ch. 35: Moody is taking Harry to the hospital wing after the 
return to the mouth of the Triwizard maze:
    "Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Up the marble stairs. . ." (Chilling,huh?)
    "The Dark Lord was there? What happened then?"
    "The Dark Lord got his body back?"
    "You dueled with the Dark Lord?"
    "What did the Dark Lord take from you?" 
     And so on.
(This was the sequence that made me realize that "Dark Lord" was a 
clue.)
 
GOF, ch. 33:  Snape: "Every Death Eater had the sign burned into 
him by the Dark Lord. . .  Karkaroff fears the Dark Lord's vengence."
 
GOF, ch. 30:  At one of the Death Eater trials Harry witnessed in 
the Pensieve:  ". . .the woman with the heavy-lidded eyes looked up 
at Crouch and called, 'The Dark Lord will rise again, Crouch!'"

POA, ch. 19: Pettigrew:  "Sirius, Sirius, what could I have done? 
The Dark Lord. . . you have no idea."
 
POA, ch. 16: Trelawney, in a trance: "The Dark Lord lies alone and 
friendless, abandoned by his followers." 
(Since she was channelling from the dark side, I'm not sure this 
brands her as a supporter. . .)
 
COS, ch. 10:  Dobby:  "Harry Potter survived and the Dark Lord's 
power was broken, and it was a new dawn, sir. . ." (This could 
just be a clue that Dobby belonged to a dark wizard family and was 
repeating the name he heard frequently.)
 
However. . .
 
Dobby as Spy:  The whole Dobby thing just rang a bit false to me. 
I reread the books with the thought in mind that he might have been 
acting as a spy for Malfoy, sent by Malfoy to somehow get close to 
Harry Potter and uncover the secret to Harry's survival over 
Voldemort so he could tell Malfoy and Malfoy could gain the power 
granted by knowledge. (Scabbers did the same thing by hooking up 
with the Weasleys. . . The Trio did the same thing with the 
Polyjuice potion, etc.) --  Dobby is bound to serve his wizard family 
and to keep their secrets and silence. Dobby had nothing to gain by 
alerting Harry, even going so far as to tell Harry that when Voldemort
left, his lot in life didn't change one speck. So, why do it? 
 
He says he was doing it to keep Harry safe, that Harry is too 
important to be placed in peril. Well, Harry had thwarted 
Voldemort's comeback in SS and this may have concerned Malfoy as he 
plotted to reopen the Chamber through Riddle's diary. So, Malfoy 
sends Dobby to use his elf's brand of magic to keep Harry Potter away 
from Hogwarts, not for Harry's safety, but to ensure success in 
opening the Chamber, implicating the Weasleys and thus destroying 
Arthur Weasley's Muggle Protection Act.
 
Malfoy wanted Harry out of the way and sent Dobby to do it.
 
In COS, ch 2, Dobby tells Harry: "There is a plot, Harry Potter. A 
plot to make the most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of 
Witchcraft and Wizardry this year," whispered Dobby, suddenly 
trembling all over. "Dobby has known it for months, sir. Harry 
Potter must not put himself in peril. He is too important, sir."
 
But, it wasn't until ch. 17 that Riddle explains to Harry, "Haven't I 
already told you," said Riddle quietly, "that killing Mudbloods 
doesn't matter to me anymore? For many months now, my new target 
has been -- you."
 
Okay -- how did Dobby know that Harry Potter, in particular, would 
be in danger when Riddle himself didn't decide to go after Harry 
until after Ginny wrote all about Harry in the diary, months after 
Dobby's warning to Harry? Some kind of elf magic that can look into 
the future? Or, just a fib that Harry would buy as to why Dobby came 
to him in the first place?  

I truly believe Malfoy sent Dobby to prevent Harry's return to 
Hogwarts so he, Malfoy, could make sure Harry didn't interfere 
with his plans to have Ginny Weasley open the Chamber, discredit 
Arthur Weasley and perhaps get rid of some Mudbloods in the process.
 
Watch out for Dobby.
 
 Bohcoo