Dobby is all powerful and mighty, sir.

[Serena Moonsilver]

No: HPFGUIDX 59633

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kenney" <kenneyjohn at y...> 
wrote:

> If house elves can use Apparition, even though wizards cant inside 
> Hogwarts, does this mean house elves are more powerful than we are 
> lead to believe? 

I've always believed this to be the case.  I think that's why they 
are so subservient.  It's a balance of power thing.  If Voldemort had 
the power of house elf, he could rule the world.  But house elves are 
wise to the fact that such power, when used wrong,can cause great 
misery and suffering, so instead they channel it into a more 
constructive purposes.   

That's why they are so mortified by Hermiones suggestions.  They're 
lives of servitude are a choice that they purposely made.

That said, I would look for Winky to become a serious threat--she's 
powerful, she's free, and she has a very definite grudge against the 
boy who lived.