In 1997, Dobby helped Harry spy on Draco Malfoy with Kreacher. He had been accompanied to Hogwarts by his friend Winky, who had recently been dismissed and had agreed to go looking for work and so began Dobby's new, happy life nearby his closest friends: Harry, Ron, and Hermione Granger. Albus Dumbledore also told Dobby that he was free to call him a 'barmy old codger' if he liked. Dobby went on to work in the kitchens at Hogwarts, for which he was paid one Galleon a week, and got one day off each month. Dobby requested some compensations for his work and eventually he and Dumbledore came to an agreement. He was ecstatic to be out of the abusive hands of the Malfoys but equally pleased to join the Hogwarts staff, where he could come and go as he liked, did not have many tasks, and those he did have were fairly simple. Dobby was generally pleased to be free, although he did enjoy working (as more of a hobby than a career). At the end of that school year, after Harry had vanquished the memory of Tom Riddle and the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, he tricked Lucius Malfoy into freeing Dobby by placing the diary of Tom Riddle inside his own black sock Lucius disgustedly, separated the book from the sock and threw the sock into the air, where Dobby caught it.Īfter a period of unemployment during which Dobby was often ostracised for having no 'proper shame' about being out of work, the way most house-elves (including his friend Winky) acted.

He felt this was necessary because he was disobeying his masters, the Malfoy family. ironing his hands, hitting his head against a lamp, and banging his head against cabinets. Dobby kept hurting himself in numerous ways, e.g. In 1992, he tried to warn Harry Potter of the plot to have The Chamber of Secrets reopened which he came to know via the contact between his masters and Lord Voldemort. His masters were Dark Wizards who treated him cruelly.

He is from the Harry Potter franchise.ĭobby was a male house-elf who served the Malfoy family.

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