flaunt his freedom, but he’d never seen him do it to this extent. “But, I is having to
sneaks up on you! I is having to tell you something very important!”
“What is it this time, Dobby?” sighed Harry. Last time they had met like this, in
Harry’s bedroom, Dobby had threatened Harry not to return to Hogwarts.
“I is very sorry to say this, sir,” he squeaked, “but you cannot returns to Hogwarts
this year!” Harry sighed.
“Dobby… we’ve been through this before.”
“No!” yelled Dobby, much more forcefully than Harry had ever heard him speak.
“No! This times is completely different! This times, if Harry Potter is returning to
Hogwarts, he will certainly die, along with many others!”
“Why, what is it this time?” asked Harry in a bored voice. “Has the Chamber of
Secrets been opened again?”
“No no no! I is not able to say!”
“But Dobby, you don’t have a master anymore. You are a free elf now. You can
say whatever you want, whenever you want.”
“Not really, Harry Potter, sir. I is still having masters. But, we does not have time
to talk now! We is having to leave… now!”
“I’m not leaving, Dobby,” said Harry. “Last time, nothing serious happened to
me, and nothing will happen this time either. You can either tell me what the threat is
now, or let me find out for myself later. Either way, I’m going back to Hogwarts.”
“If you is not coming because you is wanting to, you is coming because I am
forcing you to!” said Dobby quite loudly. He suddenly put both if his arms out, one on
top of the other, with some space in between. He closed his eyes, and began to shake a
little, and a blue orb appeared between his hands. The elf then yelled some sort of
incoherent chant, and the orb grew ten times its size and imploded on itself, creating a
small black hole that was sucking in everything in the room.
Harry was immediately drawn toward it, but he lashed out for the end post of his
bed, and held on, his legs high in the air, being drawn into the hole. His entire room was
spinning, and everything was being sucked to the middle. On top of that, there was a
deafening windy noise, like a hundred tornadoes.
“Dobby! Stop this!” yelled Harry as loud as he could, still holding on.
“Not unless you is coming with me!” said Dobby, as clear as a bell. He was
standing in a corner of the room, unaffected by his own spell.
Harry had to think of something. His bed was beginning to shake too, it was being
sucked into the hole along with everything else. He had to get out of the room! Harry
desperately looked around for anything that would help him.
Then he saw it: his broomstick! Of course, why hadn’t he thought of that before?
Harry slowly climbed his way up the bed sheets and towards the broom that was still
stationary where it was. Apparently since it was magical, the spell had no effect on it, and
since it was a Firebolt, it didn’t even phase it. Harry continued climbing along his
blankets, and soon reached the broom. Just as the bed was beginning to shake, and
getting ready to join the swirling mass, Harry made a daring leap from his where he was
to the broom, and grabbed on tight.
“See you later Dobby!” yelled Harry, mounting the Firebolt.
“No! Harry Potter cannots leave!” screamed Dobby as Harry raced out of the
window, and into the open air. He took a deep breath, filled his lungs, and then exhaled it