Master has knitted Dobby a Sock Large Yarn Bowl – 12 in.

Dobby Sock Mug

When Lucius Malfoy took the diary out of the sock, he threw the useless piece of clothing and Dobby caught it, making him free. Dobby kept that sock on until the day he died. “Dobby has no master! Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!“— Dobby’s pride of being a free elf, and his loyalty towards Harry Potter Dobby (28 June (year unknown)–March 1998) was a male house-elf who served the Malfoy family. His masters were Dark wizards who treated him cruelly. In 1992, he disobeyed his masters and tried to warn Harry Potter of the plot to have the Chamber of Secrets reopened. He came to know this via the contact between his masters and Lord Voldemort. At the end of that school year, after Harry had vanquished the memory of Tom Riddle and slayed the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, he tricked Lucius Malfoy into freeing Dobby. Harry accomplished this by placing T. M. Riddle’s Diary inside his own sock. Lucius disgustedly ripped the sock off the book and threw the sock into the air, where Dobby caught it. Dobby suffered a period of unemployment, during which he was often ostracised for having no “proper shame” in regard to being out of work. He was generally pleased to be free, although he did enjoy working as a hobby. Dobby was ecstatic to be out of the abusive hands of the Malfoys, but equally pleased to join the Hogwarts staff. At Hogwarts, he could come and go as he liked, did not have many tasks, and those he did have were fairly simple. Dobby requested some compensation for his work and eventually, he and Dumbledore came to an agreement. Dobby went on to work in the kitchens at Hogwarts, for which he was paid one Galleon a week and got one day off each month. He had been accompanied to Hogwarts by his friend Winky (who had recently been dismissed) and so began Dobby’s new happy life nearby his closest friends: Harry, Ron, and Hermione. In 1997, Dobby helped Harry spy on Draco Malfoy along with Kreacher. In 1998, he went on Aberforth Dumbledore’s orders to save the lives of Harry and his companions from Death Eaters at Malfoy Manor. During this rescue, he was fatally wounded by Bellatrix Lestrange’s knife, but successfully apparated Harry and Griphook to safety at Shell Cottage. Harry dug Dobby’s grave without magic, in the gardens of Shell Cottage and carved into the headstone of the grave “HERE LIES DOBBY, A FREE ELF.“