One of the most heartbreaking aspects of Dobby's death is that the circumstances surrounding it are foreshadowed in his first film. Not knowing about the sock, Lucius hands the diary to Dobby to carry and when Dobby finds the sock, he is freed.
In the conversation that follows, Dobby asks Harry how he could possibly repay his kindness. In return, Harry only asks that Dobby promise to never try and save his life again. Considering the danger Harry endured to return to Hogwarts because of Dobby's excessiveness, it was a reasonable request.
Of course, Dobby does die protecting Harry. During their escape, Bellatrix Lestrange attempts to stop Dobby and Harry by throwing her knife at them. At first, it seems they have gotten away victoriously until it is discovered that her knife is lodged in Dobby's chest. Dobby dies in Harry's arms and they buy him at the cottage with a small tombstone.
Dobby doesn't only die breaking his promise to Harry but dies like many others before him. With the Battle of Hogwarts not taking place until the Deathly Hallows Part 2 , Dobby is not the last person to die fighting for Harry or merely fighting against Voldemort, but his death is one of the last ones that leave a significant impact on Harry. He and Harry had almost gotten free of the Death Eaters and had they been a bit quicker, Dobby may have lived.
With the "what if" possibilities and the significance of Dobby's death, Dobby is a much harder character to let go of. Desperate at hearing Hermione's cries of pain from above, Harry frantically fidgeted with the fragment of the two-way mirror Sirius had given him years before and saw a sky-blue eye looking out of it at him. Harry pleaded for help from the owner of the eye, Aberforth Dumbledore , and shortly Dobby, sent by Aberforth, Apparated into the cellar.
From upstairs, where she was now questioning Griphook about whether or not the sword was the real one, Bellatrix heard the noise of Dobby Disapparating and sent Peter Pettigrew to investigate. Harry and Ron managed to overpower Pettigrew when he hesitated, reminded of his life debt to Harry, and his own magical silver hand gifted to him by Voldemort strangled him to death. Attempting to rescue Hermione and Griphook , Harry and Ron were forced to surrender when a disarmed Bellatrix threatened to cut Hermione's throat with a silver knife.
Dobby announced his return by causing a chandelier to fall on Bellatrix. Harry seized the wands Draco Malfoy was holding and used a stunning spell on Greyback. Ron grabbed Hermione and they Disapparated to Shell Cottage. Meanwhile Harry similarly grabbed Griphook and Disapparated. As Harry disapparated, Bellatrix threw her silver knife at him.
Harry, not knowing where he was heading, was relieved to find in the midst of his Disapparition, that he could feel Dobby alongside, his fingers gripped tightly in his hand. Arriving at Shell Cottage, Harry discovered that Dobby had been fatally wounded by Bellatrix's thrown knife, which was protruding from the elf's chest.
Dobby died moments later in Harry's arms, a peaceful smile on his face, his final words being Harry's name. Harry, deeply grieving, decided to dig Dobby's grave by hand without using magic.
Ron Weasley and Dean Thomas joined Harry and laboured with him in digging the grave. They placed Dobby's body in the grave, wrapping him in a jacket and giving him socks, shoes and a hat. Standing over Dobby, Luna Lovegood gently closed his eyes and thanked him for rescuing her and the others. Griphook was positively affected by Harry's display of humility and love for the house-elf, aiding him in his decision to help Harry retrieve a Horcrux from Gringotts Wizarding Bank. Kreacher , Harry Potter's own inherited house-elf, led the house-elves of Hogwarts in the Battle of Hogwarts , moved by Harry's good treatment of house-elves.
Dobby's death was avenged when Molly Weasley killed Bellatrix. Dobby was a house-elf, much shorter in stature than humans, standing only about 3 and a half feet 1. He had large, tennis-ball-like green eyes, [4] a pencil-like nose and long, [24] bat-like pointed ears. Later at Hogwarts, he wore a mismatched variety of jumpers, shorts, and socks. Socks became his favourite clothing after he was freed by Harry's sock. He preferred colourful, mismatched socks.
When Hermione Granger began hiding clothes she made around the Gryffindor Common Room in an attempt to free the Hogwarts house-elves, Dobby kept the clothes and began wearing them, as the other elves thereafter refused to clean Gryffindor Tower. Dobby was a brave, loyal house-elf, willing to put himself in dangerous situations when he knew it to be the right thing to do. He considered himself to be a good house-elf, though other house-elves seemed to find his desires and proclamations of being a free house-elf to be shameful.
Despite this, he was still a hard worker. When he went to work at Hogwarts he refused Dumbledore's original offer of ten Galleons a week and weekends off, opting instead for one Galleon a week and one day off per month. He explained to Harry, Ron, and Hermione that he liked freedom very much, but he liked work better. Dobby thought of Harry as his best friend. Because of his loyalty to his friends, Dobby tried everything he could to save them if they were in danger, even if it hurt them, and once attempted to seriously injure Harry Potter, hoping that if he was hurt badly enough he would be sent home this led to Harry asking Dobby to never try to save him again after setting him free.
He did not make the rogue bludger chase Harry out of malicious intent, but because he was trying to save him from Lucius Malfoy's plot to open the Chamber of Secrets. Regardless, Dobby displayed a lack of foresight and common sense in his efforts to keep Harry from returning to Hogwarts in that by doing so he was putting Harry in danger in the long run by essentially ending Harry's education, which would have left him vulnerable to his enemies.
Not only that, he was unintentionally insensitive to the wishes and feelings of Harry, who loved Hogwarts and his friends, and Dobby was essentially trying to cut Harry off from the things in his life that gave him real joy and purpose.
One most noticeable trait was his capacity to self-harm whenever he believed he had done something wrong, usually using something to hit his head with and going as far as to iron his own hands. Dobby clearly had a strong conscience, and punished himself even when he had done "wrong" things that house elves should not do, even if they were for the right reasons.
Dobby's favourite gift to receive was socks, likely because he was freed from his enslavement to the Malfoys with a sock. Dobby referred to himself in the third person and tended to get his verb conjugations mixed up. Examples of his strange speech pattern include "I has seven now sir" [25] or "Dobby must punish himself most grievously for coming sir".
He was extremely devoted to Harry after he freed him in , [6] helping him out on several occasions, ultimately at the cost of his own life. Dobby using his magic to Apparate. Harry Potter , his best friend.
Dobby and Harry Potter had a very strong relationship. Dobby loved and respected him very much to the point where he considered Harry to be his best friend. When Harry first met Dobby, he was a bit confused by the elf's devotion to keeping him safe from harm. Harry was furious when he found out Dobby was intercepting all of his friends' letters to him, and demanded them back while refusing to promise him to stay out of Hogwarts.
Lucius became angry and intended to attack Harry but Dobby protected him by using a defensive spell. Dobby may have realised that he underestimated Harry Potter, when Harry managed to stop Lucius' plot and survive the Chamber of Secrets.
Dobby was appointed to work at the kitchen of Hogwarts Castle in the paid service of Headmaster Albus Dumbledore , though even as a free elf, his loyalty always laid foremost with Harry. When Harry visited the kitchens and therefore Dobby, Dobby hugged him so tightly that Harry felt as though his ribs might crack.
Dobby also asked if it would be alright if he visited Harry from time-to-time, with Harry responding with an of course. In , Dobby told Harry about the Room of Requirement and how to get inside. While Griphook, as mentioned, must be won to alliance, it is necessary to the story also that he be a reluctant ally. His price for assistance is the Sword of Gryffindor, which is apparently necessary for the destruction of Horcruxes. Griphook's departure with the Sword leaves Harry with more puzzles that he must answer before the final Horcruxes can be eliminated.
It is also mentioned above that Harry captures three wands. We will find out that the nature of their capture is important, and also whose wands they are. The first wand belonged to Peter Pettigrew. Ron had forcefully removed that from Peter in their struggle in the cellar.
At Bellatrix' order, he had dropped that wand and Draco had collected it. Harry then wrests it away from Draco and throws it to Ron, who is then able to use it. We will find out shortly that a wand will transfer its allegiance if it is forcefully removed from its bearer.
Because Ron dropped it, it does not surrender its allegiance to Draco who collects it, nor to Harry who takes it from Draco, an unrelated party as far as the wand is concerned.
The second wand belonged to Bellatrix and ended up in Hermione's hands. It was forcefully removed from Bellatrix' hand by Ron, and so owes allegiance to Ron through the same path as Pettigrew's wand. Hermione is never able to get this wand to work correctly for her, but it does serve as identification for her entrance into Gringotts. The final wand, Draco's, is wrenched out of Draco's hand by Harry and so shifts its allegiance to him.
This will become important when Harry must duel with Voldemort in the final chapters of this book. Voldemort is carrying the Elder Wand , which had been forcibly removed from Dumbledore's hand by Draco, and so had transferred its allegiance to Draco. This wand apparently recognizes Draco's wand, which has allied itself with Harry. Because of this chain of allegiance, the Elder Wand will not harm Harry, and never works correctly for Voldemort.
Dobby's bravery and sacrifice is a significant part of the author's theme of tolerance and collaboration. Throughout the series, Harry's quest to defeat Voldemort is only possible because of help from good people, including House Elves, Goblins, and later Centaurs , and many others.
During the Battle of Hogwarts , victory over Voldemort and his evil is assured when all species join together for the common good. Dobby rescues Harry, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and several other anti-Voldemort fighters from Malfoy Manor — just before Voldemort arrives — and whisks them away to a safe place.
But just as he gets there, he dies from a knife wound inflicted in the skirmish. Harry buries him, digging his grave with a shovel instead of magic. The house-elf had a beautiful character arc that started in the second book, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," as the abused slave of the Malfoy family.
Over the course of the book, he helps Harry figure out who's behind the reopening of the chamber. By the end of the year, Lucius Malfoy accidentally grants Dobby his freedom. Later in the series, Dobby gets a paid job at Hogwarts and occasionally helps out Harry and the gang with other tasks. He's also supportive of the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare, a progressive organization founded by Hermione that opposes the enslavement of house-elves.
His triumphant return to Malfoy Manor is the logical culmination of his character's story. He returns a free elf, with magical powers that surpass a normal human's, allowing him to rescue Harry, the person who helped give him freedom. He rebukes Bellatrix Lestrange, an in-law of the Malfoys, telling her "Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!
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