Moody's death (was: Dumbledore's authority WAS: Re: Fees for Harry)

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 179468

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
>
>> > 
> > a_svirn:
> > I am. As we know from canon Dobby did save the life of Harry and 
> > other prisoners of the Malfoy Manor in a situation that required his 
> > join Apparition skill. Why not ask him to apparate Harry to, say, 
> > Aunty Muriel's? Where is the possible flaw in that plan?
> 
> Pippin:
> In the fine old days of TBAY, that one would rate you a yellow flag.<g>
> There's no canon that House Elves can disapparate with wizards in
> tow. If they could, then Regulus could have had Kreacher  save
> him from the Inferi.
> 
> Harry disapparates with Dobby, not the other way round.
> "Harry seized Dobby's hand and spun on the spot to Disapparate."
> He wonders, when Dobby's hand jerks, if Dobby is trying to steer them,
> but since Dobby has a knife in his chest, I really think that was
involuntary.
> 

Renee:
No yellow flag for a_svirn, I think. While I also have the impression
that it's Harry who Disapparates with Dobby toward the end of the
Malfoy Manor chaper, you seem to be overlooking an earlier passage
from the same chapter. There, Harry asks Dobby if he can Disapparate
out of the cellar they're in, and if he can take humans with him. When
Dobby nods, he's asked to take Luna, Dean and Mr. Ollivander to Shell
Cottage. He does so, and returns later to drop the chandelier, after
which Bellatrix throws the fatal knife at him.

In other words, there is canon for House Elves Disapparating with
wizards in tow. That Kreacher doesn't Disapparate from the cave with
Regulus in tow is not because he can't, but because Regulus wants to
protect his family. He doesn't want to serve Voldemort anymore, but
any acts of open rebellion on his part will have repercussions for his
parents. As he's going to die anyway if he deserts Voldemort, he
decides to do so in the cave, unnoticed by anyone but Kreacher, who is
sworn to silence. Nothing to do with what Kreacher can or can't do.

Renee