#dobby the house elf

[kruzbr]

Monster under the bed

[snaileer]

Behold!🤲🏼

The wildest fic I have ever come across.

[marmotish]

Fine. You give me no choice.

Draw Dobby with swagger.

Next to Yassfied Filch this is probably the most unhinged challenge i’ve gotten and I loved/hated every moment of drawing it 😂

[insomnicteen]

[basiatlu]

A Very Harry Drawtober Week 3

I just want to say thank you to every single one of you who have liked, reblogged, commented etc - the tags make me smile SO MUCH. This challenge has really pushed me and I feel like i’ve improved a lot already. Not just practice of skills and making marks, but problem solving by aligning the word prompts with my artistic brain processor that sometimes goes a little too fast for my hands to keep up.

Anyways, love you all. You feed my fire ✨

[wisteria-lodge]

wait there are no house elves in malfoy manor? i mean it's possible that during the time voldemort and the others where there the house elves could just be in prison or they are there and jkr just didn't mention them

because let's say there aren't house elves and voldemort and the death eaters are there, who would have prepared the meals or whatever things guest needs when they visit or stay in someone's house

In Harry Potter, we see a few other strategies for maintaining and running a magical house. Let’s break it down.

OPTION ONE: NON-MAGIC PEOPLE vs HOUSE ELVES

Yep, we are going to be dropping some Filtch lore today.

So in canon, it’s really hard to explain why that man (who isn’t able to do magic) has that job (caretaking an entire magical castle.) But I’m going to do my best to make it work. Because pre Statute of Secrecy, it actually makes a lot of sense that old medieval buildings like Hogwarts and Malfoy Manor would have been staffed by muggles. 

I mean, the only reason you build castles (big, easily defensible fortresses) is so they can be the last line of defense if anything happens to the serfs who are renting/farming your land. The peasants supply food/clothes/weapons/luxury products to the Lord of the manor/castle, and in return they are protected (in theory.) That’s feudalism. If anything, being a wizard would just make you a better Lord. There’s no way the Malfoys or the Founders would have been sitting at the center of a community of only wizards, there aren’t enough wizards. Also, if you want someone to run/maintain your house and you’re choosing between Muggles and house-elves… in a lot of cases, muggles are actually better.

Like okay, house-elves are slaves, which means they would be cheaper than Muggle peasants, but like… not a lot cheaper. Also, there’s got to be some upfront cost of time/money/effort in order to catch a house-elf and bind them to your house. Once you start getting generations of house-elves that’s not a problem, but when you’re setting up a household… yeah I think getting in a staff of muggles would be quicker and easier.

The other thing house elves do have in their favor is that they’re really really powerful. A single house-elf is much more effective than a single human servant. But… they’re also kind of too powerful? If you have a human servant who betrays you, does a bad job, or that you just don’t like… you can fire them, imprison them, and (if you’re a wizard) oblivate them so they can’t tell anyone your secrets. 

None of that works with house-elves. Unlike a human you can’t bribe them (because they have a culture that doesn’t value money.) You can’t imprison them (because whatever magic prevents wizards from apparating doesn’t work on them. Dobby gets in and out the Malfoy dungeons just fine.) I’m also assuming you can't obviate them, because if you COULD then oh my god, Barty Crouch Senior would have 1000000% obviated Winky. 

Until house-elves are freed they do seem to have some magical compulsion that prevents them from speaking ill of their masters…  but they can clearly still mess their masters up pretty bad if they want to. Dobby spends all of Book 2 undermining Lucius. Kreacher spends all of Book 5 undermining Sirius (and honestly is the catalyst for the Battle of the Department of Mysteries.) This doesn’t even seem out of the ordinary: Tom Riddle framed Hokey for Hepzibah Smith’s murder, and apparently everyone bought it. That's another reason a muggle would be a solid choice: even if they wanted to kill a wizard, it would be nearly impossible. But Kreacher and the Hogwarts house-elves actively fight wizards during the Battle of Hogwarts.

So if you have a house-elf that you can’t trust, basically your only response is to free them. Which is bad, because they know all your secrets and can now talk to whoever they want (Dobby absolutely bad-mouths the Malfoys after he's freed. It’s super plausible that Winky could’ve said something about Barty Junior while she was smashed off Butterbeer.) So really… the only truly safe option is to kill them. And it seems like you have to kill them by hand, like with a sword. The Blacks did sign up for this, and we can see their wall of decapitated house-elf heads as proof. House elves do make more sense for the Blacks, because I'm thinking if they became powerful at around the same time as the Statute, they would have been setting up new muggle-less households, not adapting old ones to the new paradigm. But then, not everyone is as hard-core as the Blacks. The Malfoys, for example, actually seem quite squeamish about violence. Draco is also very happy to refer to what Hagrid does as "servant stuff," which means he's comfortable with that particular worldview.

Now, Hogwarts also has house-elves, and they certainly don’t seem to kill them. Of course it's a school rather than a house - if one of those elves went rouge, what damage could they really do? Compare that to Dobby who like, if had wanted to put Lucius Malfoy in Azkaban… he could give some really damning evidence. Lucius Malfoy’s defense was that he was under the Imperius curse. Dobby knows that’s not true. Dobby knows where all the contraband in that house is, Dobby knows that diary belonged to Voldemort, he knew Lucius was threatening Hogwarts on purpose. Maybe elves aren’t allowed to testify in front of the Wizangamot, but Dobby, bring that info to Arthur Weasley. Bring it to Dumbledore. If I were Lucius Malfoy, I would be terrified. Even if I had other house elves, I don’t know if I’d keep them around after second year. Definitely not after Kreacher went rouge and betrayed Sirius, which *Narcissa* knows all about.

Hogwarts also has Filch (and Hagrid, who *also* can't do magic, at least on paper.) And I guess I could see an interpretation where if Hogwarts was initially designed to be run by Muggles, then maybe there are certain functions of the castle that can only be performed by Muggles. Like, we all know there’s something weird going on with Mrs. Norris. She’s too smart, she’s the only animal who shows up on the Marauder’s map, she’s telepathically bonded with Filch. So, maybe she is the manifestation of some magical function that oversees the castle, and maybe you need someone without magic to properly access her magic. Like if a witch/wizard tried to bond with her, their magic gets in the way of the castle’s magic. I’ll buy that. 

Eventually though, Salazar Slytherin started becoming wary of Muggles, so maybe he started a process of phasing out any muggle servants working in the castle and replacing them with house-elves. That makes sense to me. And if the castle needed non-magic workers… squibs would be a good compromise. 

OPTION TWO: AUTOMATED MAGIC

So we know you can cast a spell on an object, and then that object will just sit and do nothing until the spell is triggered. Fred and George’s hats don’t do anything until you put them on - and then they turn your head invisible. You are not doing anything to cast the spell, it’s all in the hat.  Presumably their cloaks and gloves that deflect curses work the same way. 

We also see a lot of this kind of delayed-action magic when it comes to magical protections for locations. Dumbledore has spelled Grimauld Place to send specters at anyone who comes through the door. Muggle-repelling charms don’t do anything until a Muggle comes in proximity. Voldemort’s inferi trap in the cave is filled with magical objects that don’t activate until certain conditions are met. Also, these are not single-use protections that you need to replace every time they’re triggered. Once they're set up, it seems like they keep working until they're taken down.

We also know that there are plenty of spells to make running a household easier. We see Mrs. Weasley use spells to cook, to make clothes, she has whole books full of household magic. So my thought is - if you can bewitch the outside of a house to respond to certain conditions, then why not the inside of a house? How hard would it really be to bewitch a fireplace so it turns on every time someone walks into the room? I bet you could get beds that make themselves, carpets that clean themselves, make it so that certain meals are always cooked at certain times, and served in specific places. The house probably cycles through a set number of meals, and some of the food options would be slightly eccentric because that piece of food-magic was set in 1702. But it all seems very doable, in a programmable smart-house sort of way. Especially if you’re the Malfoys and have nothing but money, time, and a love of the ~*~*aesthetic*~*~ Because the aesthetic of a house like this would be absolutely peak. Very spooky fairytale, invisible servant, romantic Beauty-and-the-Beast castle vibes. 

I think this is the option that Malfoys would have chosen, when they no longer had access to Muggles to run their house for them. Apart from the heightened security and a cooler aesthetic, the Malfoys were very against the Statute of Secrecy, so I bet that (for a while at least) they were kind of hoping that it would be reversed and things would go back to the way they were. So, not as motivated to start building up a household staff of house-elves, which is a pretty irreversible decision. 

The Malfoy also like to keep secrets. In the present day of the book, we know they have contraband cursed objects, contraband poisons, a hidden room to keep all of their contraband in underneath the drawing room floor. I don’t think this is a particularly recent state of affairs. Going back to the 1700s, if the Malfoys were ordered to cut off all these very profitable ties with the muggle world… yeah they’re not doing that. They are definitely hiding income coming in from the muggle world, or muggle retainers that they were kind of supposed to obviate and didn’t. 

In the main timeline of the books, I think it makes a lot of sense that Dobby is a Black family house elf that came over with Narcissa when she and Lucius were first married. And I say that because… Dobby is a mess, and Lucius Malfoy puts a lot of stock in looking good while out in public. The Hogwarts house elves look neat and presentable. Winky’s tea-towel toga looks clean and neat. Dobby is shambling around a snot-stained torn pillowcase, is Lucius not embarrassed? 

My thought is that he kind of resents Dobby: he’s the Black family passive aggressively saying that Lucius can’t take care of Narcissa, or maybe he suspects that the Blacks are sending Dobby over as a spy, whatever. But whatever the reason he can’t get rid of him - first because he doesn’t want to offend his in-laws (Dobby is the equivalent of an ugly lamp that you keep in the closet unless the people who gave you the lamp are visiting.) Then Dobby witnesses the entire war, which makes him way, way too much of a liability to free. 

So that’s my answer. tl;dr - the Malfoys are a very private family with a long-standing distrust of the Ministry, with a house that was set up to be run by Muggles. It makes the most sense that they have retrofitted that house with automated magic, until it’s basically able to run itself. And then, whenever they’re throwing an event, or something a little too complicated for the house's magic to handle… just hire in a staff of wizards to work one or two nights.

[seaskate]

Regulus and Harry

Regulus was a boy with dark black hair, the youngest in his home (Sound familiar?)

Regulus was a boy forced into a way of thinking by those that were suposed to care for him, and hurt by them all the same. (Sound familiar?)

He was the youngest in a house where everyone else at school seemed to adore the older of the two until he became exactly what was wanted of him. (Sound familiar?)

He was young and diving headfirst into war because he was told that it was the right thing to do (Sound familiar?)

He had a house elf and loved him enough to seek vengeance when he was hurt. (Sound familiar?)

The prized boy of the side that he was on, the trace still present and yet already revered for a mark on his skin (Sound familiar?)

The face of his Hogwarts house, but would have excelled and possibly have been happier in another. (Sound familiar?)

Dying alone and surrounded by enemies in the end. (Sound familiar?)

Was thrown away by Sirius, who was supposed to have loved him. (Sound familiar?)

(Do you ever think that Sirius looked at Harry, a boy that he only got a few short years with because he chose to stay in Azkaban rather than go to him, and sees the brother that he abandoned? I think that he should have. If he'd paid attention then he would have. For all that Harry looks like James, he shares a lot more with Regulus)

[mireyaaaaaaaaa]

I was evil for spamming these first thing in the morning

@yeeteddemigod lolol sorry

Now I'm going to go spam pjo too>>

(Think about Sirius, Lupin, Lily, James, Mad eye moody, hedwig; to cry some more)

[sarroora]

[cxndiedvi0lets]

Master has given dobby some friends. Dobby is now happy.

[worlds-worst-ships]

Do you ship it?

[nlhs-foreva]

The fact that every year dumbledore sends harry to go live with his abusers with mental problems is wild. I mean, can’t a guy catch a break? They force him to do things as if he’s DOBBY. My guy ain’t going to be treated like a house elf alright. He’s a king. But like 5th to leo, my true king

[nightingale2004]

Severus Snape daughter pt.2

His daughter would either be born before or after he joined the Death eaters (your choice)

If his daughter was born before he joined the Death eaters, then he would've taken a long moment to take in this information, but he then would've quickly taken action

He would get jobs to earn money, be distant with his Slytherin friends, and stop attending meetings because he knew that if he joined, he would be caught up in a war that he didn't want to be part of in the first place and he wanted to be there for his child alive and not in Azkaban

News of his child would've definitely changed his perspective (I think) he would've still seen the Death eaters as an opportunity, but soon he would've seen the Death eaters as a terrorist cult (one he no longer wanted any part of)

Charity and Aurora would've been the first ones to know since Severus trusted them with this information with his life (plus Charity started noticing his odd behavior and managed to get him to fess up)

Both Aurora and Charity help Severus with the money and even give him some to help him get started

The second person to know was McGonagall, who also noticed Severus's strange behavior, and after many times, she got Severus's confession about his daughter

McGonagall helped Severus earn money by suggesting he make potions for St. Mungos and she even helped him get a job at one of the potion shops in Diagon Alley.

The next people to know were Lucius when he kept pestering Severus and got a confession out of him. Lucius then told Narcissa, who also told Regulus.

Narcissa and Regulus were both outraged that they had to hear the news from Lucius instead of Severus himself (OUTRAGED I SAY!)

When news already spread, Severus called a meeting with all of the people who were in the know about his new child and swore them all to secrecy. No one needed to know about his child (death eater or order member) which they all agreed too

Narcissa was happy for Severus and understood now why he stopped attending the meetings. She was secretly very happy for him and glad that he had taken a new path instead of the path to death, and that made her extremely worried for the family she had left

Lucius and Regulus felt betrayed, but at the same time, they understood (thanks to Narcissa), and they backed off Severus and helped him and his new daughter remain under the radar from Death eaters

Before Severus's daughter was born, Ms. McGonagall helped Severus change his last name to Prince (he didn't tell her the real reason why, but she has an idea)

When Severus inherited the Prince name, he inherited their fortune (they're loaded, and you can't tell me otherwise), but he saved that money for his daughter and her future and he also added a new account under his name that had all his money from his job, it wasn't a lot but it was enough for both him and his daughter

When Severus's daughter was born, he was both enchanted and terrified at the same time.

He immediately fell in love with his new daughter and knew at that moment he would do anything for her and protect her from anything that would dare harm her.

Everyone else was the same way

When Charity and Aurora first held Severus's daughter, they immediately loved her, and then they started having baby fever

When Minerva McGonagall first saw the child, she too fell in love and felt a grandmotherly instinct to protect and love this child

When Lucius and Narcissa first saw and held their friend's daughter, they fell completely in love, and Lucius knew he and his wife would spoil her rotten (mostly Narcissa)

When Regulus first met Severus's daughter, he was terrified. He did not know how to handle or hold a baby and was always nervous around her the first few times, but eventually, he too fell under her spell and wanted to fight Lucius for the title of "Best uncle"

After much, much, much, MUCH debate. Narcissa and Lucius were named the godparents of Severus's daughter since they kept on begging, and Narcissa pulled the "Future godfather to my son" guilt card (Severus caved in after that)

Charity, Aurora, Regulus, Narcissa, Lucius, and McGonagall were there for everything in Severus and his daughter's life, including her first words, her first steps, and her first spell

Severus would do everything in his power to make sure his daughter had a better childhood than he had

Charity and Narcissa often fight with each other on who the better aunt is (i love them both equally)

Severus would be a working father, and if he was ever busy, he would either take his daughter to work with him or ask one of his newfound family to help look after his daughter

If Severus ever saw any, and I do mean mean ANY of the marauders near his daughter, he would immediately take her far away from them

If he saw Lily though, he would be cautious, but he would allow a conversation to happen, but after the conversation is done, he would get his daughter and go home (in my opinion he doesn't want to think about the past anymore since his daughter is his future now)

He would not work for the order or for the death eaters since he wants no part of the war, but he would help them order by supplying them potions to help their members (and yes, he would still brew wolfsbane for Remus)

If Tobias was ever still alive and he saw Severus and his new granddaughter, Severus would immediately stand in front of his daughter and walk the other direction (THE MAN HAS NO BUSINESS BEING A GRANDFATHER IF HE CAN'T BE A DECENT FATHER TO HIS OWN SON)

If Narcissa and/or Charity were with Severus and they ever saw the marauders, Lily included, they would glare daggers at them, have their wands at the ready, and threaten their very lives if they gey within inches of Severus and his daughter

Lucius and Regulus made sure that the safety of Severus and their new niece would be taken very seriously. They would hide their location away and keep any information about them to themselves and away from the dark lord.

McGonagall would've definitely taught Severus's daughter how to dance at a young age

Both Severus and McGonagall make sure Severus's daughter is ahead of her studies and never falling behind. They've also made sure to educate her about the wizarding world with the Malfoys and Regulus's help, of course

The child is a Slytherin but has the dedication and loyalty of Hufflepuff, bravery of a Gryffindor, and creative intelligence of a Ravenclaw

Severus's daughter makes sure her father gets well rested and eats 3 to 4 times a day (someone has to check on him)

Severus would make sure that if he ever did pass on, his daughter would be well off and have family to be there for her

Aurora is the calm one who de-escalates the competitive spirit between Charity and Narcissa before it goes too far

Severus's daughter would definitely have a green thumb and a love for poetry and art

Her patronus is definitely a bat or a Raven

She would scold her uncle Lucius about hurting Dobby and would always be polite to house elves

Dobby would like Severus's daughter as well

If Bellatrix ever met Severus's daughter, Severus would not trust leaving them alone together for even a second

She wouldn't know about lot about her grandparents, but Severus would mostly speak about his mother Eileen

His daughter would definitely read her own father like a book and could always tell what he's feeling or if he's ever overthinking just by looking at him

Dumbledore would also know about Severus's daughter due to him 'knowing everything', but he would only visit the new Prince residence every now and then to check on a few things

[basiatlu]

Day 21: House Elf

Dobby had to hear about all those praises and wonders somewhere..

[skarfle]

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November Prompt 16: Fingertips

Words: 645 | Pairing: Draco Malfoy x reader

You’ve seen muggles addicted to things like money, cars, even alcohol, After all, everyone in the world has something they are addicted to, but you always found yourself back in the same place when it came to your own, plastered against the cool hallway wall in The Malfoy Manor with a bated breath.

Draco Malfoy is about six feet of the male version of sex on legs. His signature platinum blonde hair and piercing silver eyes had caught the eyes of many girls at school. It really drove everyone mad when he’d started growing scruff around his jawline, but none could handle the roughness around the edges like you could. Surprisingly, even being from different houses, Draco’s invited you here many times over breaks and his father never complained. Usually you’d just study together or complain about things neither of you have control over, but couldn’t discuss within the walls of the school. However, it never mattered which came first because it always ended the same.

Today, the mansion has been completely empty aside from you and Draco. The family elf, Dobby had been dismissed thanks to Harry himself just months ago and Lucius’ frequent business for the Ministry had kept him too occupied to bother finding a replacement. Draco’s mother, Narcissa has been keeping herself busy too lately, running alongside her sister, Bellatrix, doing who knows what. And in that same manner, you’ve been running around doing who knows what with Draco all week long.

It always started in the dining room. The long ebony table took up most of the room, but the family had hardly sat here for a proper meal. When you were alone in the comfort of your parent’s home, you’d think of Draco eating here alone, only served by an elf that would quickly be dismissed, and now, he doesn’t even get that.

The curtains don’t help much either. Heavy black, pure velvet clinging over the floor to ceiling windows and it sickened you. You could hardly see the sun through them, not a single plant would ever survive here, but they were a perfect accent in comparison to the emerald green chairs. At least his father thought so.

You’d sat closer to Draco today, side by side actually. You’d decided to open the curtains to let in some of the natural light. Draco protested, even going as far as rushing over to take your hands off. His father would be upset, of course, but you could handle it. Lucius didn’t scare you.

And with the sun peering through just right and Draco’s hand on yours, rays catch in the silvers of his irises. He must have noticed the same spark in your own eyes, a curiosity clouding your young lustful minds.

Draco’s lips were on yours faster than you could breathe and within that time, he had you right where he wanted you. So, you stand, half naked with goosebumps prickling across the surface of you skin from being smashed against the frigidness of the wall just outside his bedroom. You two couldn’t even make it that far, but that’s nothing new.

Draco’s lips always follow wherever his fingertips travel. From your curls to the tip of your bulbed nose, to your lips and the curve of your jawline. He took extra care to let his fingers curl around the base of your neck when he kissed there, causing you to moan up towards the ceiling in pleasure while he kissed deep into your skin, licking and biting too, before leaving the area warm and throbbing in his absence. The next thing you know, you’ve been kissed all over, inches of your body trembling against his touch and his absence. He always takes you into his room when you’re like this, drunk off the touch of his fingertips and kisses, and yearning to have your addiction completely satisfied.

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