marauders4evr:

Good morning! Can you believe there are people out there who don’t understand the importance of Dobby?

“Oh yeah, he’s that little cute creature who tried to help Harry.”

“He’s the comic relief haha! ‘Bad Dobby!’“

“Who?”

No!

Dobby was a legitimately crucial character and it kills me that the movies reduced his character so much and that many people in the fandom forget about what his character represented.

Dobby’s the reason I knew halfway through the Deathly Hallows that Harry was going to die in the climax. I’m dead (heh) serious.

Granted, in the grand scheme of things, nearly every single plotpoint that Dobby brought to the table could have been shifted to another character. Hell, that’s what the movies did. (See: Neville finding the Room of Requirement).

But what Dobby represented was so much greater. Honestly, the reason Dobby exists is heartbreaking.

Because you’ve got this character right? This small, thin, character who wears rags. This small, thin, rag-wearing character with bright green eyes. Who lives to serve for Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, the family that is canonically set up to parallel the Dursleys. He spends each and every day doing horrid tasks and chores for these snotty, violent, people and their spoiled son. In turn, they abuse him, beat him, kick him, mistreat him, and act as though he is the sheer scum of the earth. 

But he’s strong. Strong enough to overcome that abuse in order to help others. And when he finally is set free, no longer having to return to that abusive family, he still makes it his mission to help others. He doesn’t just want to help them, he needs to help them. The trouble is, every time he goes to help them, something horrible happens. People end up in trouble, people end up getting hurt, and no matter how much he tries, more and more people start to hate and resent his help. 

But he helps all the same. He helps his closest friends and when the time comes, this small, thin, green-eyed, character sacrifices himself and dies.

Now look me in the eye and tell me Dobby was the simple filler/comic relief.

Why do you think Harry was so attached to him in the first place?

Dobby needed to die in the end because Harry needed to die in the end. 

Dobby was Harry. Harry was Dobby.

The only difference, of course, is that when Dobby died, he died surrounded by his closest friends. Harry died alone.

*Stretches* Well, I think I’ve broken your hearts enough. Time for breakfast.