"Dobby has dinner ready, sir!" Dobby whispered to Harry.
Dobby apparated away from the kitchen. Harry stepped briskly into the living room where his relatives were gathered around the television set.
"I've made dinner. Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, and corn on the cob, and strawberry pie for dessert," Harry said to them.
"Sounds good to me," said Uncle Vernon rising from his chair and rubbing his stomach.
"That is my favorite!" Dudley declared as he headed into the dining room after his parents.
"Everything is your favorite!" Harry muttered under his breath as he followed behind them.
Once everyone was in the kitchen, Dobby reapparted into the living room. He noticed the large box with the screen on it in the middle of the room. It was flashing images on and off and it was the most curious thing Dobby had ever seen, next to the lawn mower.
He stepped up to it and touched it, the screen felt like very hard glass and was slightly warm to the touch. On the screen he saw a gray colorless image of a man and woman together. The man was wearing a top coat and a fedora as he leaned towards the woman and cupped her delicate pretty face with his hand. "I love you, Maggie," he said, and a moment later he pressed his lips against her own and they remained n this position as if they had got stuck to each other with glue on their lips.
The scene lasted a long time until the screen faded to black. As Dobby watched he felt disgusted by what he saw for he couldn't imagine ever doing such a thing with another elf, not even Nifty, for it seemed just too gross. Would he ever understand humans, especially muggles? He thought not.
He noticed a set of buttons on the left side of the box, some big some small. He was so curious to know what would happen if he pushed one if any of them that he pushed one that had what looked like a backwards arrow on it.
Instantly the image on the screen changed. The picture was now in color although everything had a bluish tint to it as it was a nighttime scene. Dobby saw a little boy wearing a cape with a hood riding a strange mode of transportation with wheels, handlebars, and pedals with a creature wrapped in a sheet riding in the basket. Dobby could only see the creature's face and assumed it was a house elf when he saw its eyes but then he saw the shape of its nose and didn't know what it was.
"We walk from here," said the little boy to the creature. Then suddenly the thing the little boy had been pedaling began to move again and seemingly of its own accord.
"What are you doing? E.T!" the little exclaimed fearfully. So Dobby now knew the unknown creature's name was E.T. and if it was making the wheels on that thing he was riding in turn he almost certainly had to be from his world.
The thing which they were riding sped onward and reached a deep gulf in the road and Dobby held his breath as he saw them go right over it but instead of falling they lifted up higher and higher and soared through the air above the treetops.
"Not so high! Not so high!" the little boy screamed with fear and excitement.
Dobby stared in awe and wonder as he watched the little boy and creature in front of him flying like how he had sometimes seen witches and wizards fly on their brooms. A smile spread across his face as he watched them fly straight across the full moon in the night sky and he thought how he'd love to do the same thing with Harry if only if he knew what it was they were riding on.
"Don't crash, please!" the little boy begged the creature as they began to descend back to the ground. They landed and fell over on their side but seemed unharmed.
Dobby felt so amazed by the wonders the screen on the box could show him. He just had to see more.
A few days later, Dobby was cleaning out the Dursleys' garage, something which had not been done in many years and it was filled with all kinds of junk that Dobby had never knew even existed. As he was levitating away some large boxes he discovered behind them an object that both astounded and delighted him. It was the very same object he had seen on in the box with the screen on it the little boy was flying on with the unknown creature in the basket.
Thoughts of wonder and excitement raced through his eager mind as he imagined himself flying with Harry on it across the moon. Of course he had to know if Harry approved of such a thing so he dropped what he was doing and rushed back to the house.
He apparated into Harry's room where he found him dressed in his pajamas and robe getting ready for sleep.
"Harry Potter! Dobby has made the greatest discovery, Harry Potter, sir!" he exclaimed breathlessly.
Harry rubbed the back of his neck and yawned slightly. "Dobby, it's late. Can't it wait till morning?"
"This is something which cannot be seen or done by daylight, sir! Harry Potter must come with Dobby at once!" he declared enthusiastically.
So Harry followed Dobby outside and into the garage where Dobby unveiled the wondrous object he had found.
Harry smiled weakly when he saw it. "So I see you've found a bicycle. Well, good for you," he said without much spirit.
"A bicycle?" repeated Dobby. "Dobby had no idea that was what it was! Dobby would like to take a ride in Harry Potter's bicycle, if sir will please agree!"
"Actually this isn't my bicycle, it's Dudley's," Harry said frowning. "And he'd be sure to destroy me if I was to use it without even asking, not that he'd ever let me anyway."
"Where is Harry Potter's bicycle?" inquired Dobby.
"I don't have one, I'm afraid," Harry replied forlornly. "I guess the Dursleys just never thought it necessary to get me one."
Dobby's ears dropped in sad disappointment. "But Dobby wanted to ride in the bicycle."
"Look, I'm sorry, Dobby," Harry said. "But I don't even know how to ride a bicycle."
Dobby's ears perked up a bit. "That doesn't matter with Dobby, for Dobby intends to make it fly!"
"Fly!?" Harry exclaimed in disbelief. "How can you make a bicycle fly?"
"The same as Harry Potter can make a broom fly," Dobby replied easily. "The magic is all inside."
"That is what Dumbledore says, too," said Harry with a smile. "Alright, Dobby. Just let me go get my invisibility cloak so we won't be seen."
"Yippee!" Dobby exclaimed delightedly. "Bring a sheet for Dobby also for Dobby's ears need protecting from the night air."
So Harry went into the house and came back a moment later carrying his invisibility cloak and a small white sheet which he wrapped neatly around Dobby. He tucked Dobby into the bicycle's basket at the front and then covered himself with the invisibility cloak and draped it over the bicycle.
Harry began pedaling it unsteadily, though as they left the garage it seemed to be moving on its own like a plane on autopilot and they quickly began picking up speed. Harry felt his adrenaline rising as the bicycle reached its top speed.
They came to a small hill and as they reached the top Harry felt a peculiar sensation around his feet and as they glided over the hill they lifted up off of the ground. They rose higher and higher into the air gradually and gracefully like kids do on a swing and soon they were floating above the rooftops around them and then rising above the treetops going steadily higher and higher.
"Not so high, Dobby! Not so high!" Harry exclaimed feeling frightened and ecstatic all at once.
Dobby ceased their elevation and they just soared through the night air on invisible wings as swift and graceful as an eagle's Harry looked around him and he could see the whole neighborhood far below them and just above him he saw the stars glittering and the milky way shining. He had never felt such excitement in all his life for this was even better than riding a broom, so much more thrilling.
He cried out in ecstacy as he saw the full moon pass by them. Dobby seemed to be feeling Harry's happiness and he reflected it back to him as they took a dive in front of them and then rose up high again. Harry felt his heart would burst with pleasure, never had he felt so free.
They flew around town for a while and then when Harry began to show signs of becoming tired, Dobby flew them back to Little Whinging at Number 4 Privet Drive. He managed to bring them down carefully and gently.
Harry got off of the bicycle and quickly put it back into the garage in the same place they had found it. He still felt so happy and he did something Dobby had done for him in the past but he never really done for him in return for it, he hugged him. He picked him up and held him in his arms and caressed him.
Dobby began trembling with emotion and then he began gasping which turned to hyperventilating and when Harry pulled him back he saw his eyes were full and streaming incessantly.
"N-N-Never... never... in all Dobby's life has he been held in such a way by anyone!" he sobbed.
Harry smiled and pulled a handkerchief out of his robe and handed it to Dobby which seemed to make him cry even more.
"Th-thank you, Harry Potter, sir!" he wailed as he pressed it to his face.
Harry had been truthful when he told Dobby he did not hold a grudge against him, and now he was extremely glad that he didn't or he would have missed out on having the best friend he had of all others.