Dobby demands that Harry promise not to go back to Hogwarts. Harry discovers that Dobby has been stealing letters from Harry’s friends, hoping to dissuade him from returning to school. Harry manages to hide the elf just in time. But all of the noise draws mean Uncle Vernon upstairs. Harry tries desperately to keep the Dobby quiet. Dobby has come to protect Harry by warning him not to go to Hogwarts. When Harry asks if he can help, Dobby is overwhelmed with appreciation. The house-elf must constantly punish himself at home too, but can only leave if his master sets him free. While he speaks to Harry he violently and noisily punishes himself for betraying the wizard family he serves. He has never been asked to sit down by a wizard. When Harry asks Dobby to sit down, the elf wails loudly in gratitude. Harry realizes that this is who was peering out at him from the hedge that afternoon.

Harry discovers a little creature with bat-like ears and large eyes sitting on his bed, who identifies himself as Dobby the house-elf. Then she feeds him minimally, while she prepares a feast for the Masons, and sends him to his room. After Dudley taunts him, Harry pretends to cast a spell, for which Aunt Petunia punishes him with yard work. Sitting in the garden glumly, Harry sees two enormous green eyes staring at him from the hedge. Uncle Vernon orders Harry to stay in his room all evening and make no noise. The Durselys are focused on a dinner party with the Masons they have planned that evening to promote Mr. He hasn’t heard from his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. This is his twelfth birthday, and everyone seems to have forgotten. They are afraid of what Harry might do to them, and so restrict him from mentioning the word magic and lock up his messenger owl Hedwig so he can’t send letters to his school friends. The Dursleys are what wizards call Muggles, meaning that they have no magical powers. He lives with his Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and cousin Dudley Dursley. Harry Potter, a young wizard, is home from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for the summer.

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