Dobby (ST parallel?)

[Anne]

No: HPFGUIDX 53801

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "manawydan" <manawydan at n...> 
wrote:
> 
> I tend to see house elves' minds as being hard wired a particular 
way: as
> you rightly say, to be working and serving.
> 
> Just possibly, they also have some sort of collective "hive mind" 
which
> explains how Dobby and Winky are aware of each other and what's 
going on. It
> would also explain why they are so self effacing, don't step out of 
line,
> etc, and even why Winky was so devastated when she was cut off from 
her true
> nature as house elf to the Crouches.

So... perhaps house-elves are kind of like The Borg in Star Trek (TNG 
and later) -- except they're mostly nice and kind and helpful and 
benevolent and *not* bent on assimilating everyone and dominating the 
universe ... at least we hope they're not. I hope we don't find them 
on Voldy's side. Actually I expect at least some of them to rise up 
against their *DE* masters in one of the upcoming books.

> 
> But Dobby is very different. Although he still tends to refer to 
himself in
> the third person, he has individuality and independence of thought.

Like "Hugh", the Borg (probably named something like Three of Six, 
Secondary Adjunct of Unimatrix Four) who got separated from the Borg-
hive and ended up being examined in Beverly Crusher's medical lab. 
Hugh was (AFAIK) the first Borg to call himself *I*.

 It's
> hardly surprising that [Dobby] found refuge at Hogwarts, where 
misfits seem to> find a place.
>  I agree that we will see him again, and that he has much more to do
before
> the end...
 
As did Hugh in a later episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation...


Anne U
(when it comes to HP, resistance *is* futile :-)