CoS and the HBP

[FrisbeeK]

No: HPFGUIDX 104072

I've seen a lot of posts that speculate on the end of CoS as being 
the clue to the next book. But what if it's the beginning and middle 
of CoS that deals with Dobby and the Malfoys that is important.

What if Dobby is the connection to the HBP?  He says in CoS when he 
goes to warn Harry that house elves work for a lifetime in manors 
and castles.  And throughout the books when Dobby tells Harry 
information, you get the impression he knows more than he tells.  
Not that Dobby is the HBP but what if he 
worked for the prince?  I know Dobby worked for the Malfoys until he 
was caught warning Harry and then went to work in Hogwarts.  
What if the HBP is one of the Malfoys?  In particular Lucius 
Malfoy.  

We know very little about the Malfoys other than they 
are "purebloods" and descendents of Slytherin.  What if they're not 
all 'purebloods'?  What if Lucius is like LV in that his mother was 
a muggle?  What if one of the reasons he is so ferverently in 
support of LV's purebloods is because he's not one himself?  

Just a thought - haven't really worked the whole theory out.  And 
don't know that I'd be too excited about having another story with 
Dobby who is sort of annoying; but he'd be the obvious connection to 
a "prince".

"FrisbeeK"