Winky and Dobby

[romerskesims]

No: HPFGUIDX 92410

Chelle wrote:
> 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?

Dobby was released from the Malfoys in CoS, and then employed at 
Hogwarts. When Winky was dismissed by Crouch Sr., and Dobby went to 
visit her, he was either a Hogwarts elf, or an unemployed one (I 
don't remember exactly when Dobby was employed at Hogwarts). And 
when you think about how Lucius Malfoy gives money to charity and 
generally spends a lot of time in the Ministry, it would be natural 
for the house elves to meet each other. I mean, it is after all only 
old, wealthy pure blood families who have elves, so they have 
probably met somewhere before their releases.

Tine