Who do the Hogwarts house elves answer to?

[siriuskase]

No: HPFGUIDX 71026

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pitaprh" <jwright at a...> wrote:
> 
> This could also come back to the idea that some how Harry is
related 
> to the Malfoys.  There has been some speculation that the reason 
> that Dobby could come to Harry in COS is because he is related to
the 
> Malfoys.  Like how Kreacher went to the Malfoys in OOP because of 
> Narcissa.  So maybe that is why Dobby still in some ways will take 
> orders from Harry because he is related to the original family 
> who "owned" him.  
> 
> "pitaprh"

This is similar to my theory that Dobby was the Potter house elf and
only became the 
Malfoy elf because Harry went to live with muggles.  that is why he
suffered mixed 
loyalties in the second book and continues to be loyal to Harry even
though his legal 
connection to Harry was severed when he went to live with the Malfoys.

How could this happen?  Malfoys could be close enough kin to the
Potters, but I 
prefer to believe that Lucius knew the right person to bribe at the
Office of House Elf 
Relocation (referred to as a previous employer of N. Scamander in
FBAWTFT)

Sirius Kase