Dobby redux (long)

[aggiepaddy]

No: HPFGUIDX 106225

> Aggie:
> 
> > Malfoy's release of Dobby WAS unintentional but this does not 
>seem to matter to house elves.  In OotP when Hermione was knitting 
> furiously all the hats and scarves to free the elves, they refused 
>to clean Griffindor common room in case they accidently picked up the
> article of clothing and *unintentionally* freed themselves.  If it 
>works one way round surely it'll work the other.

 
> Bonny:
> 
> Atually, they refuse to clean Gryffindor house because they find 
>the hats insulting, not because they are afraid of being freed.
>> "She still does not care for clothes, Harry Potter. Nor do the 
other 
> house-elves. None of them will clean Gryffindor Tower any more, not 
> with the hats and socks hidden everywhere, they finds them 
> insulting, sir."
> 
> OotP, Canadaian Hardback, page 342
> 
> Besides, Mrs. Weasley wanted a house-elf to do the laundry - it is 
> specifically noted in CoS - and if a house elf could be freed 
simply 
> by being handed a garment, they certainly would not be able to do 
> laundry. I believe there has to be intent.
> > 


Aggie now:
So does that mean that you don't believe that Lucius freed Dobby 
then?  That it WAS Harry that freed him somehow.  It does follow that 
it appears Dobby has 'adopted' Harry as a master but if that is the 
case how was he freed from Lucius? 

Thanks for adding to my points on this.

I realise that TR/LV posed a danger to Harry I was just wondering if 
there was another reason for Dobby's insistence.