[HPforGrownups] Re: What motivated Dobby in CoS?

[SeventhSqueal]

No: HPFGUIDX 53602

>From 7thSqueal's request for ideas...
What motivates Dobby in CoS to prevent HP from going
to Hogwarts?
Three: Add your idea here.

bboy_mn:
 
Perhaps it is a simple as this- 
Everybody needs a hero. 
Everybody needs hope.
(little snip)
Sometime heroes are the only thing that give us the
strength to carry on.
 
DOBBY:
"Ah, if HArry Potter only knew! If he knew what he
means to us, to the low, the
enslaved,.(snipped)...Harry Potter shone like a beacon
of hope for those of us who thought the dark days
would never end, sir...."  
(snip)
Then he hears a plot, (snip)
It took a monumental effort for Dobby to go
against his very nature, and attempt to save his hero,
his beacon of hope. 

I'll take a living hero over a dead martyr any day,
and I think Dobby would too.

7thSqueal snaps her fingers in appreciation like a
beatnik then scrounges in her pocket retrieving $1.37
in change and puts it in bboy_mn's House Elf
Liberation Front can and responds:

Very nice. You suggest that we take Dobby at face
value. He's the house elf equivalent of a misfit
social visionary. O.K. 
This still bothers me, though, because this makes him
such a behavioral mutant. His own house elf comrades
treat him like a St. Mungoloid and social pariah for
seeking fulfilment outside of the traditional house
elf status quo. What makes Dobby so anomalous, such a
social freak? Can he be Polyjuice!Dobby? If so who is
he?


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~SeventhSqueal

There's no earthly way of knowing / Which direction we are going / There's no knowing where we're rowing / Or which way the river's flowing / Is it raining? / Is it snowing? / Is a hurricane a-blowing? / Not a speck of light is showing / So the danger must be growing / Are the fires of hell a-glowing? / Is the grisly reaper mowing? / Yes, the danger must be growing / 'Cause the rowers keep on rowing / And they're certainly not showing / Any signs that they are slowing!

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