Winky and Dobby

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 92405

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chelle" <teshara at y...> wrote:
> I was just relistening to my GoF book on CD tonight when a line 
jumped
> out at me.
> When Harry meets up with Dobby in the kitchens for the first time 
and
> talks to him about he and Winkys employment, Dobby says he found 
about
> Winkys dismissal when he went to visit her.
> Does this seem strange to anyone else? Dobby belonged to Lucius
> Malfoy. Why would Crouch's elves have anything to do with the Malfoy
> elves? Is there more to this?

Crouch is a rather important official in the ministry. No doubt Lucis 
or Crouch visited the other while bringing their elves like what 
happened in CoS with Dobby and Lucius.