[HPforGrownups] House Elfs

[Sue Porter]

No: HPFGUIDX 81818

Yes, Dobby and the whole House Elf population has me intrigued. I know there 
has been discussions galore on House Elfs and don't particularly want to 
start another, but one thing does need explaining to me (ok, don't start 
throwing tomatoes and pointing me at the Lexicon or previous posts because 
none have explained it satisfactorily to me), and that is "Why did Dobby go 
against everything his race have adhered to and warn Harry?"

There was a roundabout way Kreacher got out of the house to the Malfoys, but 
I would have thought that the Malfoys had very strict ways of dealing  with 
their HE's considering how pissed off LM was when Harry freed Dobby.

I have my own personal wishes about how Dobby was 'allowed' to warn Harry, 
but I guess we'll never know unless or if JK tells us. (unless I'm being a 
total ignoramus and have missed some emphatic answer from JK in an interview 
or something).

Dobby's protection of Harry seems uncharacterisitc of a house elf and it 
will be interesting to see how he fits into the future books! The Hogwarts 
House Elf Army perhaps?

Sue
>From: "Iggy McSnurd" <coyoteschild at peoplepc.com>
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: The Death Chamber
>Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 08:57:40 -0500
>
>
>
> > 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
>
>
>

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