Hermione blaming Dobby

[Kathryn Cawte]

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> Geoff:

>
> If Lockhart hadn't been such a self-centred and arrogant berk and had
> listened to those who told him to let Harry go to Madam Pomfrey, the
> whole incident wouldn't have happened.
>
> You might just as well say that if somebody drops a glass of water
> and spills it that it is also the fault of the person who filled the
> glass.....
>
> Knowing HG's pro-elf tendencies, I'm surprised she even suggested he
> was to blame. <g>
>
K

Your analogy is a bit off there - after all it's Dobby's fault he was
injured. using the dropped glass analogy it's like being careless while
picking up the glass and cutting yourself and then blaming the person who
dropped it - while the injury isn't *directly* the responsibility of the
person who dropped the glass they certainly contributed to it. If Dobby
hadn't caused Harry to break his arm, Lockhart couldn't have screwed up
fixing it. While Dobby didn't directly cause his boneless state he was
responsible for the situation in the first place. While I doubt Harry (or
even Hermione for that matter) actually blames Dobby for him losing his
bones it is true to say that Dobby's plan resulted in Harry losing the
bones. It wasn't a foreseeable consequence but it was easy to forsee that
something bad could happen to Harry because of it.

And the general sentiment behind Hermione's comment, ie Dobby's plans tend
to get Harry into trouble of some kind, was certainly accurate

K

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