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

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 179469

-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. <snip>

Carol responds:

I was going to quote the same passage. However, it doesn't really
matter whether there's canon for House-Elves Apparating with wizards
in tow. What matters is whether Harry knows that it can be done, and,
as of "The Seven Potters," he doesn't. And even if he did, he can't
summon Dobby at will (he doesn't own Dobby) and he's certainly not
going to trust Kreacher to help him. And that's assuming that the
anti-Disapparation spells wouldn't detect House-Elf Apparition. The
MoM detected Dobby's wandless Hover Charm, after all, and couldn't
distinguish it from a spell cast by a wizard (Harry).

Carol, who thinks that JKR tried to eliminate commonsense methods of
removing Harry from 4 Privet Drive by having Pius Thicknesse make
those methods illegal