My name is Aberforth, and I am no one in particular.
Have you ever heard the saying, "As soon as the house-elf sins"? Perhaps not. You muggles have different expressions like, "When pigs fly." (Personally I have never understood that one. In the Wizarding World it's actually quite common to see—well you get the picture.) My point in asking is to show just how uncommon it is for a house-elf to do anything but as they are told. House-elves were thought to be lowly servants virtually incapable of disobedience. The picture people had in their mind when they thought 'house-elf' was of a slave. I must confess that I was once one of these people. My wake-up call had come in the form of a very small, very peculiar, house-elf named Dobby. You see, Dobby used to be no one in particular either.
He lived with a rich, pureblood family, did his work just as he was told, never disobeyed, and punished himself when he had done something wrong. He was seemingly insignificant and ordinary in just about every way. But there was one thing that set him apart. This one thing, this one simple difference, was that Dobby had a dream. Dobby dreamed of freedom. His dream was like a spark inside his overly large heart; a heart so big that it would one day be the death of him. Dobby's dream stood as a hidden symbol of hope, not just to house-elves, but to the entire Wizarding World.
He was just another house-elf who did just as his master bid, just as a good little elf should. Just just just. Just what? Just a creature? Just a slave?
Dobby taught me what it meant to really , Dobby was just a house-elf. Just a house-elf who was able to challenge the ideals of a typical society. Just an elf who conquered the laws of nature itself, going against who he was supposed to be. Just an elf who was granted the freedom that he had so earnestly sought. Just an elf who discovered that freedom for himself was just not enough, so he gave his life for the freedom of others. Just an elf who sinned, and saved the world along the way.
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