Dobby revisited

[scoutmom21113]

No: HPFGUIDX 83765

How does this sound?  When putting clothes into the laundry, the 
clothes are placed either in the laundry basket or just dropped on 
the floor (I have teenagers too!).  There is no intent to discard 
them.  The owner just moves a personal item from one place (his/her 
body) to another (the dirty laundry).  House-elves then handle the 
articles of clothing as personal belongings of the master.  

When Lucius Malfoy "gave" Dobby the sock, he was intending to 
discard the sock.  He certainly wouldn't think of keeping a sweaty, 
smelly sock from a boy he hates.  In fact, he didn't *think* about 
what he was doing in discarding an article of clothing around his 
house-elf.  No matter what the relationship between Harry and Dobby, 
and Harry and the Malfoys, it was Malfoy's *intent* to discard the 
sock that makes his act differ from tossing aside dirty laundry.

Does that help? Or did I just wash the darks with the whites in hot 
water??

Ravenclaw Bookworm