Dobby and freedom, A house elf's lot |
 Dec 11 2007, 01:40 PM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup  Posts: 28 Joined: 4:58pm December 5, 2007 Location: Mexico   |
QUOTE(WaggaWaggaWerewolf @ Dec 11 2007, 02:30 AM)  But why would Dobby send the bludger if Draco didn't send him? And what was he doing at Hogwarts, anyway? Did Draco want to fix the game to make himself look good? Or did Draco say something which might have been interpreted as something else? Pass this scenario across your critical gaze: Draco: Dobbieeeee! Dobby: Yes master? Draco: Do something to help me look good in tomorrow's match. (Slytherin/Gryffindor match) Dobby: Yes master. Dobby doesn't really have to do anything his master doesn't approve of. That is to say, punishable. And at the same time he can rationalise that it would be keeping Harry away from Hogwarts, which is what he hopes Harry will think. Until Dobby at the end of the book becomes a free elf and can make his own decisions about what he wants to do. Right! Or maybe Draco didn't order Dobby directly, maybe Draco said: "Oh that Potter! I hope a bludger kicks him and hurts him so he can't play quidditch, or better, be sent to his house the rest of the year!" And gave Dobby the idea of sending the bludger. |
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Dec 11 2007, 02:09 PM
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Hiding in the Iron Maiden at Borgin and Burkes Posts: 328 Joined: 9:00pm July 31, 2006 Location: Searching the library of Hogwarts looking for another book series. |
QUOTE(Laura W @ Dec 11 2007, 02:55 AM) Hi WaggaWagga: This has always been my interpretation of that -- None of the Malfoys knew anything of Dobby's contact with Harry in CoS. Dobby was determined that the great, famous Harry Potter - known to the whole WW for his "defeating" of the Dark Lord - would not return to Hogwarts. Dobby must have heard his master and mistress discussing returning the diary to Hogwarts so that the Chamber would reopen and all the "mudbloods" (which, in their mind - and in Tom's - included Harry, with his Muggle-born mother) would be killed. Seeing the 12-year-old Harry as a hero to the whole WW, including house elves, Dobby took it upon himself to do the unthinkable and make decisions without being told to do them by his master. These decisions/actions including popping up at 4PD to implore the boy not to go back to school, performing magic at 4PD in the hope that the underaged Harry might get expelled from school, enchanting a bludger to injure Harry so badly that he would survive but be sent home from school, and showing up in the hospital wing to plead once again for Harry to go home before the Chamber is opened. Had the Malfoys known about *any of this* in CoS, undoubtedly the house-elf would have been Crucio'd within an inch of his life. Brave little Dobby (sob, sob). Laura I agree I think that Dobby acted on his own in COS. Dobby felt that he had to do something to help Harry, maybe he did it the wrong way but he at least tried. Plus he always punished himself afterwards. Dobby risk his life in helping Harry in COS(if the Malfoys' had of found out they probably would've killed him). And in DH he gave his life in not only resucing Harry, but also those in that celler. Dobby may he R.I.P |
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Dec 15 2007, 08:26 PM
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Gambol and Japes' Research Department  Posts: 1,396 Joined: 9:09am July 15, 2005 Location: behind one of the revolving doors |
I would also agree that this was Dobby's own accord. He does say he has been trying to keep Harry alive. I also think Dobby would have told Harry at some point if Draco had made him do it. Draco making him do it just doesn't go along with Dobby trying to keep Harry alive.
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Dec 16 2007, 12:07 PM
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Dumbledore's Personal Secretary  Posts: 4,717 Joined: 10:28am December 31, 2006 Location: At a violin concert with my boss. |
Dobby wouldn't have been ironing his hands and shutting his ears in oven doors if he'd been following orders. He does tell Harry that he had bewitched the bludger so as to injure him and cause him to be sent home and thereby remain safe from whatever was going on at Hogwarts. And I belive that. Dobby wouldn't lie to Harry about anything like that. He so obviously adored Harry from the beginning till the very end. *sob* 
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