[HPforGrownups] Re: The Death Chamber

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 81801



> Geoff:
> I think, in return, that you missed my point. Lucius attempted to
> attack Harry /because/ Dobby was there. If he had not been there,
> then LM would not have launched the attack.
>
> Since Dobby spends a lot of his time defending Harry (admittedly in
> rather questionable ways), he would not have stood back in the
> situation which did arise.

Iggy:

You might also say that Dobby WAS the protection afforded by the spell Harry
has around him.

Dobby wouldn't have come to him had he not heard of what was planned at
Hogwart's during the coming year... plans that would probably have killed or
otherwise threatened Harry to some extreme degree.

Harry would not have been as on the alert as he was had Dobby not visited
him.  This helped to give him some warning before things started to happen.

Indirectly, through the plans LM had, Harry was in danger from LM already...
since we KNOW that Riddle would have gone after Harry and tried to kill him
regardless.

Granted, LM wouldn't have attacked Harry had Harry not freed Dobby, but if
Dobby weren't free, he wouldn't have been able to help protect Harry later.

Dobby, almost as much as anyone else at Hogwarts, acts as a "Guardian Angel"
for Harry... so having the events in PoA work as they did set up the form
Harry's protection would come to him at later times...  (Had Dobby not been
at Hogwarts, he wouldn't have heard of the GillyWeed, he wouldn't have known
about the Room of Requirement... etc...)

It has also been the point of discussion a number of times in the... four?
six?... days I've been on the list that JKR goes to some extreme lengths at
times to set things up for future books.  I think Dobby's importance in
Harry's protection hasn't been fully played out yet...


We have already seen that Harry's protection works in odd and mysterious
ways... Dobby is just one of the odder ones.


Iggy McSnurd
the Prankster


"Dobby works in odd and mysterious ways."

-- Iggy McSnurd