Focus on Dobby (was: What's he up to?)

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@!#=**@!Yahoomort!@*##! (Censored version of actual comment of 
Lilian)

Okay, so I have to do the bloo...erm...bally whole reply again. 

As this thought-provoking post has wandered of in various, well 
argumented already, directions already, I will merely focus on 
Dobby. IMO there are some other questions with regard to him that 
need explaining, apart from those raised in this post.

>Kneasy wrote:
<snip>

> However, there is something in CoS that bears  thinking about - 
and it 
> isn't small (except physically) and that concerns Dobby. 

<snip again> 

> What I want to concentrate on is not what they are or how they are 
> treated but what Dobby actually  *does*. There could be a very big 
clue lurking in there somewhere.
> 
> Dobby himself tells Harry that House Elves are bound "...to  serve 
> one house, one family." They're not  interested in strangers, only 
> in serving the Family they are attached to. Yet Dobby adds that he 
> has "...come to protect Harry Potter, to warn him..." And once 
again Harry misses the chance to ask some pointed questions.

Lilian:
I couldn't agree more!

>Kneasy: 
> So why is Dobby so very concerned about an apparent stranger? 
> Note that he is not at all concerned about any of Harry's friends 
> or colleagues and certainly not with Ginny, who is the front line 
> victim for Malfoy's little ploy with the diary. The rebirth of Tom 
> Riddle is of supreme indifference to him, it is only the 
involvement of, and the possible dangers to Harry that matters.
> 
> So  what's going on?
> 

Lilian taking the opportunity to slip in some other questions about 
Dobby:

1) How did Dobby know where to find Harry?

Further on Kneasy's ideas about Lucius, did Lucius obtain this 
information from the MoM? Or from Snape? Or is this part of the 
powerful magic of house-elves?
Kreacher could find Narcissa because the Blacks and Malfoys 
associated with each other. If Sirius'mum visited her cousin, she 
could have taken Kreacher with her.

2) How did Dobby know that LV could be freely named before he (LV, I 
mean)changed his name?(CoS UK pb ed. pg 249)

Ofcourse, Lucius is a DE but I do not consider LV's old name the 
kind of information he provides the members of his inner circle. And 
then there is DD's statement on that matter... (CoS UK pb ed. pg 
242).
What if Dobby already was a house-elf of Lucius Malfoy's father? 
Given Lucius age in OotP (41), his father could now have been 70+, 
so perhaps he was one of the intimate friends TR referred to (CoS UK 
pb ed. pg. 231). That would also explain (to me at least) how TR's 
diary fell into the hands of Lucius. It was not given by LV to one 
of his followers, but by TR to one of his best friends, Lucius' 
father, shortly after TR preserved his memory. Lucius simply 
inherited it.

If that is the case, it seems to me that Dobby knows more about TR 
and as TR is not related to the Malfoys, IMO, Dobby could possibly 
tell Harry more about his arch-enemy.

<snips the rest, as others have already made posts on this>

Lilian:

I now imagine the prime-players in kind of dancing circle. LV trying 
to kill Harry, Lucius trying have LV killed, Snape trying to have 
Lucius killed, Harry having to "kill" one way or the other and 
Puppetmaster!Dumbledore pulling the strings.
No miracle JKR said that Harry would run if he knew what was coming 
to him.

Lilian