Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Lockdown house-elves



This is Dobby.  He is a house-elf.  (You may recognise him.)


This morning, Mum looked up from the sink where she was using her good shampoo to scrub the results of a nosebleed out of Boy #2's sheets, to ask Boy #1 to clear away his cereal bowl.  The house-elf was not working today, she said.

Boy #1 complied, muttering, before handing her a sweatshirt.

Since it was not Mum's sweatshirt, she handed it back.

Ha-ha!  said Boy #1.  I'm free!  You gave me clothing.

Mum and Dobby were confused, until they realised: Boy #1 thought she meant HE was the house-elf!

Oh, how Mum and Dobby laughed.  Dobby, perhaps, laughed harder than Mum.  He was not the house-elf, either.


2 comments:

  1. How funny. And this reminds me, I'm not sure of your boy's ages BUT www.wizardingworld.com has a free feature where they are having various actors affiliated with Harry Potter read a chapter of the first book. It is AMAZING. So, even if the boys aren't interested, you might be. I know I am loving it.

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