Winky and Dobby

[bohcoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 82317

(Thank you to Catlady -- Rita -- for posting the following quote in 
her post #82286:)

Sandy ms*bead*sley wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/82275 :

<< I *still* want to know (I posted this before, I think, and it sank
without a trace) how Winky and Dobby got to know each other prior to
the World Cup scene where Harry encounters Winky and ends up talking
with her about Dobby. "But I knows Dobby, too, sir!" And Harry
(again, confound him) never asks, "How? Why?" How do those two know
each other, bound as they have been to different households? Other
wizarding social events? Ministry affairs? I'm that curious. >>


Bohcoo reponds:
I think you have hit on a significant "clue" in the story. How DID 
Winky and Dobby know oneanother?

What if Malfoy and Crouch were tight chums who were in quiet cohoots 
to overthrow Fudge at some point down the line? It has already been 
mentioned how blindingly ambitious Crouch was and how desperately he 
had wanted to be Minister of Magic. Add to that the numerous mentions 
about how well "connected" Malfoy is. . . Doesn't it make sense that 
they would have socialized over the years, bringing along their house 
elves as their personal attendants, just as Crouch did at the World 
Cup in GOF and Malfoy did in COS? In that way Winky and Dobby would 
have become acquainted and developed a friendship, over many years.

Of course, the implications are that Malfoy is not as loyal to 
Voldemort as he seems. I think he is just using Lord Thingy to get 
rid of those he considers to be in his way, much in the same way as 
Hermoine used the centaurs to get rid of Umbridge. Once that happens, 
Malfoy, who has been quietly building a power base among those of 
like-mind in the Ministry, will marshall his forces and take over 
after Harry Potter takes care of Voldemort for him. I honestly don't 
see Malfoy as the obedient, servant-to-Lord-Voldemort type. He has 
something up his sleeve and, as Phineas told Harry, "...given the 
choice, we (Slytherins) will always choose to save our own necks." 
(OOP, pg. 495) And, further their own ends.

I see the friendship of Winky and Dobby as a "clue"...

Sherlock Bohcoo