Chapter 11: The Broken Promise
No one alive knew that Harry, Voldemort, Wormtail and Dumbledore had all died in the
last three hours. In fact, only a few people even knew that Harry had been called to
Dumbledore's office. One had been in Dumbledore's office since Dumbledore had died.
Dobby, the house elf, was to be the first to enter Dumbledore's office since his death. For
the house elf it had been a normal day of helping in the kitchen and scaring Peeves away around
noon, until he was asked to go clean up Dumbledore's fireplace. Dobby entered the office and
spotted the four dead bodies soon. He pointed his finger at them and used his mysterious elfish
magic to resurrect the four. Lord Voldemort was the first to awake. Voldemort then looked at
Harry and grabbed Peter Pettigrew's body and fled. Soon, Dumbledore and Harry awoke; both
failing to remember what had happened after Harry had entered Dumbledore's office. Harry then
realized that he was late to Transfiguration and left Dumbledore's office.
"You shall not harm Harry Potter!" shouted Dobby. Dobby then pointed one finger at
Dumbledore's de-neurelizer and it floated over to the long fingers that were Dobby's. The de-neurelizer then flashed and Dumbledore was left in a daze. "You are professor Dumbledore of
Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardly and you love Harry Potter so much that you would
never harm him." The house elf then hid the de-neurelizer, the sunglasses, and the gun and
started to clean the chimney.
After a few minutes of daze, Dumbledore went into his bedroom and began to hang many
posters of Harry Potter, but this old man wanted far more than a poster.
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A little while later, Harry found Dobby crying in the corner of the third floor corridor.
"Dobby," said Harry. "Why are you crying?"
"Dobby," said Dobby between many moans and tears. "Dobby saved Harry Potter's life
after Harry Potter asked Dobby not to."
"Oh," said the confused boy. "Well, I have to find Ron and Hermione, I hope that they
aren't in the broom closet again."
