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Uncle Vernon :
We've raised you since you were a baby, give you the
food off our table, even let you have Dudley's second
bedroom purely out of the goodness of our hearts.
Aunt Petunia : Not now, pop kin. That's for when the
Masons arrive.
Uncle Vernon : Which should be any minute. Now. Let's
go over our schedule once again, shall we? Petunia, when
the Masons arrive, you will be -
Aunt Petunia : In the lounge, waiting to welcome them
graciously to our home.
Uncle Vernon : Good. And Dudley, you will be-
Dudley : I'll be waiting to open the door.
Uncle Vernon : Excellent. And you?
Harry : I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and
pretending that I don't exist.
Uncle Vernon : Too right you will. With any luck, this
could well be the day I make the biggest deal of my
career. And you will not
mess it up.
Dobby : Harry Potter! Such an honor it is!
Harry : Who are you?
Dobby : Dobby, sir. Dobby the house-elf.
Harry : Not to be rude or anything, but this isn't a
great time for me to have a house-elf in my bedroom.
Dobby : Oh, yes, sir, Dobby understands. It's just
that, Dobby has come to tell you... it is difficult,
sir...Dobby wonders where to begin.
Harry : Why don't you sit down?
Dobby : S-s-sit down? Sit down? Oh...
Harry : Dobby! Shhhh! I'm sorry. I, I didn't mean to
offend you or anything.
Dobby : Offend Dobby! Dobby has heard of your
greatness, sir, but never has he been asked to sit down
by a wizard, like an equal.
Harry : You can't have met many decent wizards then.
Dobby : No, I haven't… that's an awful thing to say.
Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!
Harry : Stop! Dobby, please stop!
Uncle Vernon Don't mind that. It's just the... cat.
Dobby : Bad Dobby!
Harry : Are you... all right?
Dobby : Dobby had to punish himself, sir. Dobby almost
spoke ill
of his family, sir.
Harry : Your family?
Dobby : The wizard family Dobby serves, sir. Dobby is
bound to serve one family forever. If they ever knew
Dobby was here... But Dobby had to come. Dobby has to
protect Harry Potter. To warn him. Harry Potter must not
go back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
this year. There is a plot. A plot to make most terrible
things happen.
Harry : What terrible things? Who's plotting them?
Harry : Okay! I understand. You can't say! Dobby,
Dobby, put the lump. Come on.
Uncle Vernon : So, when they arrive at the ninth hole-
Harry : Give me the lump! Dobby, stop! Give it to me
and keep quiet.
Uncle Vernon : What the
devil are you doing up here!
Harry : I was just...
Uncle Vernon : You've just ruined the punch line of my
Japanese golfer joke.
Harry : Sorry.
Uncle Vernon : One more sound and you'll wish you'd
never been born, boy! I'll fix the door!
Harry : Yes sir. See why I've got to go back? I don't
belong here. I belong in your world -- at Hogwarts. It's
the only place I've got friends.
Dobby : Friends who don't even write to Harry Potter?
Harry : Well, I expect they've been... hang on, how do
you know my friends haven't been writing me?
Dobby : Harry Potter mustn't be angry with Dobby.
Dobby hoped if Harry Potter thought his friends had
forgotten him, Harry Potter might not want to go back to
school, sir.
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