Comments on: The Worst Birthday & Dobby’s Warning

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:38:59 +0000

(Spoiler!) It is hard to say if Lily told Petunia about the no magic outside of school rule or not. I think Petunia remembers information about Azkaban because of Snape being present. She is spying on them at the time and is obviously jealous of her sister’s new interests. When Lily comes home on breaks she may or may not practice magic, but we do know that by this point Petunia is already calling Lily a “freak” and they may not be talking to each other very much at all.

By: Jose Lopes

Jose Lopes — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:10:30 +0000

About the letter that Harry received from the Ministry: it may have been a surprise to uncle Vernon that Harry was’nt allowed to use magic outside of Hogwarts, but surely aunt Petunia should remember that, after all her sister was in the same situation when she was young (spoiler: if aunt Petunia remebers something like Azkaban prison, more easily should remember that Lily also was’nt allowed to perform magic outside of school).

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:27:34 +0000

NicoPony’s fantastic image of Harry trying to catch the hovering pudding reinforced for me what a horrible birthday Harry was having. I never really thought about how Aunt Petunia went to the trouble to create a “masterpiece” pudding for business guests, but the birthday boy was never going to have any.

By: John Kearns

John Kearns — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:05:11 +0000

Chloe – this is definitely a possibility. I think the biggest question in my mind is how omnipresent Dobby had to be at Privet Drive to be successful at intercepting Harry’s mail. If all he had to do was cast an elf-spell, then you’re probably right. If he had to wait around and intercept each owl individually, though, then I can’t really see him pulling it off.

Kim – Dumbledore says in book 6 that Lucius didn’t know the diary was a Horcrux, so I can’t imagine how Dobby would find out. I assume he just overheard that the plan involved the Chamber of Secrets.

palantiriel – Remind me to get back to this when I post that chapter, if I don’t remember to write it in myself. It’s a really interesting point.

Thanks everyone!

By: palantiriel

palantiriel — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:32:48 +0000

The fact that Dobby accompanies Lucius to Hogwarts at the end of the book suggests that the Malfoys take him with them sometimes, probably to carry stuff and run errands (maybe Lucius was heading to Hogsmeade after Hogwarts?), so perhaps they send him out on his own sometimes, hence he’s allowed to leave Malfoy Manor because no-one’s ordered him to stay there? They wouldn’t give him a second thought unless they wanted him to do something for them.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:26:23 +0000

“there are powers Dumbledore doesn’t… powers no decent wizard…” Does Dobby know about Horcruxes? Or is he “only” talking about the diary and the Chamber?

By: Chloe

Chloe — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:34:48 +0000

In response to the Something You May Not Have Noticed section: I think it would be possible for Dobby to find a way to leave Malfoy Manor on his own. Afterall, Kreacher was able to use Sirius’s ordering him out of a room (“Get out!”) to leave the entire house and visit the Malfoys, so I don’t think it’s that difficult to imagine the Malfoy’s yelling at Dobby to leave a room or something, and him twisting that into a way for him to leave the house.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:22:09 +0000

Extremely cool Harry by Hannah Dora.

Also again very interesting thoughts in the Something You May Not Have Noticed section.