"Hello?" Harry said politely to it. The house-elf jumped down from the windowsill onto the toilet.

"Hello Mr Harry Potter!"

"Sorry, but who are you?"

"I'm Dobby sir!" Dobby was still standing there on the lid.

"Would you like it sit down?" he asked gesturing at the lid. Dobby looked at him with big sad eyes then burst into tears.

"What's wrong?" he asked bewildered

"Dobby has never been asked to sit down before by a wizard, like an equal" Dobby said between sobs

"You can't have met many decent Wizards" thankfully Dobby stopped crying but picked up the toilet brush. Realising what was about to happen Harry yanked the toilet brush out of Dobby's hand and put it back where it belonged. Harry tried to unlock the door but it wouldn't unlock. Harry turned around and looked at the house-elf suspiciously.

"Did you lock us in here?" Dobby grabbed his ear and started twisting it.

"Dobby only wanted to talk to you sir" he mumbled and started twisting it even more fiercely. Harry grabbed his hand and managed to break his grip on his ear.

"Okay, why did you want to talk to me?" Harry asked. Dobby sat back down on the toilet lid and said

"Harry Potter cannot go back to Hogwarts, terrible things are being plotted!" he said. Harry stared at him for a moment.

"What? Why?" Harry stammered "I've got to go back! I belong in that world"

"No, no, no! Harry Potter must stay here. If you go back you will be in mortal danger!"

"Why?" Harry asked bewildered

"There is a plot sir, to make terrible things happen at Hogwarts School this year. Dobby has known about it for months" he said shaking all over

"What terrible things!" Harry asked "Who's plotting them?" Dobby made a funny noise and then started banging his head against the wall. Harry grabbed him around the middle and dragged him away from the wall.

"Thank you" he mumbled

"It's all right. You can't say I understand. But why ae you warning me?!" a horrible thought occurred to him.

"Has this got anything to do with Vol, sorry You-Know-Who?" Dobby looked up at him with big eyes

"Not He-Who-Must-Not be named sir" he looked like he was trying to give a hint but Harry didn't get it

"Has he got a brother?" Dobby shook his head

"I can't think of anyone else who would be powerful enough to do something like this. I mean there's Dumbledore for one. You know who Dumbledore is don't you?"

"Dumbledore is the greatest Headmaster Hogwarts has ever had. Dobby knows it sir, Dobby has heard that Dumbledore's powers rival those of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named at the height of his strength" Dobby's voice dropped to that of a whisper "there are powers Dumbledore doesn't, powers no decent wizard-" Dobby then ran to the door and started pounding his head against it. Harry immediately pulled him away from the door.

"Harry Potter must promise that he won't go back to school" he cried

"I must go back, I have friends there"

"Friends who won't even write to Harry Potter?" Then Dobby covered his mouth with his hands.

"How do you know I haven't been getting my mail?" he asked suspiciously

"Dobby thought that if Harry Potter thought that his friends had abandoned him then he wouldn't want to go back" he clicked his fingers and a bunch of letters appeared in his hands.

"Give me my letters!" Harry exclaimed and he tried to grab them but Dobby hopped aside. Then the door rattled. Harry turned to look at it

"What is going on?" he asked angrily

"Harry Potters' family are trying to get in" he said quietly.

"Why can I not hear them then?" Dobby sat on high window sill

"Dobby thought that if Harry Potters' parents were mad at him then they wouldn't let him go back"

"Dobby I must go back to Hogwarts, nothing you can say or do can make me change my mind!" Dobby clicked his fingers and the door opened revealing Lily, James and Sirius all looking slightly annoyed. Which quickly changed to shock when they saw Dobby.

"Harry what is going on?" Sirius asked, with his wand out

"Dobby came to warn me that terrible things are being plotted at Hogwarts and he's been trying to persuade me not to go"

"What terrible things?" Remus asked, he had just appeared next to Sirius "What is going on?" he asked

"Dobby came to warn Harry not to go to Hogwarts this year, apparently terrible things are being planned there" Remus nodded

"He can't tell me who is planning it, why or what it is. It's not Voldemort though" he snapped,

"Why did you warn Harry?" Lily asked the House-elf gently, he climbed down off of the windowsill

"Harry Potter is too good to loose" he mumbled

"Is Harry in any particular danger from this terrible something?" James asked, Dobby nodded. Then he dived at the wall. Lily stopped it and he sat back down panting

"Thank you" he quietly told Lily

"Now will you give me the letters?" Harry asked grumpily, the adults gave him a confused look.

"He stopped my letters from arriving and from my friends getting them" he explained quickly

"No, Harry Potter must give Dobby his word!" Dobby said. Harry said nothing knowing it would be pointless. Dobby suddenly clicked his fingers and he disappeared, Harry glared after him.

"Come on kid, get dressed and have some breakfast" James said, he put a hand on Harry's shoulder and led him out of the bathroom.