Speaker 1: Welcome back to Muckle Snuggle. Just close your eyes and listen.
Speaker 1: It's Nigel here, your host, and to night. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about something very quiet, something very small and
Speaker 1: yet very important. We're going to talk about a sock
Speaker 1: and a bit of bacon and a very brave little
Speaker 1: house elt. His name, of course, is Dubby. We are
Speaker 1: going to explore the idea of his freedom, not just
Speaker 1: the moment he got it, but what it really meant,
Speaker 1: what it changed, and why it might be one of
Speaker 1: the most quietly revolutionary things in the entire story of
Speaker 1: Harry Potter. It's a big topic, but we have all
Speaker 1: the time in the world. There is no rush, So
Speaker 1: just droft off into the world of thought. Let your
Speaker 1: mind wander to the kitchens a Malfoy manner, or a cozy,
Speaker 1: mismatched room in Hogsmead. Darby's freedom begins, as most things
Speaker 1: do for Harry Potter, with a warning, a warning delivered
Speaker 1: in a very strange way. This is in Harry Potter
Speaker 1: and the Chamber of Secrets, chapter two, to be precise,
Speaker 1: the Vanishing Glass. Harry is in his room at number
Speaker 1: four Privet Drive, and there is a knocking sound. It
Speaker 1: comes from his window sill, and there is a creature there,
Speaker 1: a small battered creature with enormous green tennisball eyes. And
Speaker 1: this creature, this our self as sobbing. He is hitting
Speaker 1: his own head with his knuckles. Naughty boy, he's whispering,
Speaker 1: naughty Master Darby has to punish himself. Sir Dorby thought
Speaker 1: he would come and stop Harry Potter from going back
Speaker 1: to school. Sir. He warns Harry not to go back
Speaker 1: to Hagwarts. He says there is a plot, a terrible plot.
Speaker 1: And when Harry asks why he doesn't just leave his masters,
Speaker 1: the Malfoys, Dobby is horrified leave Sir, Leave Sir Regulus
Speaker 1: Blatt's old robe. Dobby knows nothing of leaving, Sir. Dobby
Speaker 1: must be punished, Sir. You see, from the very first
Speaker 1: moment we meet him, we learn the central, painful rule
Speaker 1: of his existence. A house, self belongs to a family.
Speaker 1: Freedom is not a concept that exists. It is as
Speaker 1: foreign as a broomstick without a handle. This first encounter
Speaker 1: is so important because it shows us the conflict. Dobby
Speaker 1: has a conscience. He knows Harry Potter is a good wizard,
Speaker 1: a famous wizard, and that his masters are planning to
Speaker 1: harm him, but his magical binding, the ancient magic that
Speaker 1: ties a house self to a family, tells him he
Speaker 1: must obey. He tries to subtly sabotage. He mentions the
Speaker 1: bludger at Quidditch, the rogue bludger that follows Harry, but
Speaker 1: he cannot directly disobey. His very essence rebels against the idea.
Speaker 1: He says, Dobby had to come, Sir Dorby had to
Speaker 1: warn Harry Potter. Oh, sir, it's so dangerous. He sounds
Speaker 1: so helpless, and that helplessness is a foundation of his
Speaker 1: whole journey. Now, let's drift for a moment. Think about
Speaker 1: how self magic. It is a very particular, very powerful
Speaker 1: kind of magic. How self can perform magic that wizards
Speaker 1: and witches cannot. They can upright in and out of
Speaker 1: places that are under magical protection. The ministry of Magic,
Speaker 1: Gringot's Hugwarts itself. All are permeable to a determined house.
Speaker 1: Elf Lucius Malfoy, for example, take the diary of Tom
Speaker 1: Riddle from his own study into the Department of Mysteries.
Speaker 1: But he doesn't do it himself. He gives it to
Speaker 1: his houseelf Lucius Malfoy's house elf to carry it is
Speaker 1: a loophole, a piece of wizarding law that relies on
Speaker 1: a being they consider subhuman or sub elf, and Dobby's
Speaker 1: magic is tied to his service. He punishes himself, that
Speaker 1: is his magic. He scrubs with pillow cases, he irons
Speaker 1: his hands. The pain is a kind of fuel, a
Speaker 1: terrible fuel, and that is what makes his eventual freedom
Speaker 1: so profound. He doesn't just get a new job. He
Speaker 1: gets to choose not to hurt himself anymore. That is
Speaker 1: the first most immediate change. But we are getting ahead
Speaker 1: of ourselves. Let's go back to the story. The next
Speaker 1: major point is the Socks Chapter ten, the Rogue Pludger.
Speaker 1: He is in Lockhart's office after the quidditch match. His
Speaker 1: arm is broken. Lucius Malfoy is there complaining about Dumbledore,
Speaker 1: and he has his house elf with him Dobby. Harry
Speaker 1: has figured it out. He knows Dobby was the one
Speaker 1: leaving the socks in the cauldrons, trying to get him expelled.
Speaker 1: He knows about Bahladger, and in a moment of brilliant
Speaker 1: kind quick thinking, Harry does something. He has just received
Speaker 1: his copy of Who's Who among hext Witch Doctors from
Speaker 1: Builderoy Lockhart as a get well gift, and Lucius Malfoy
Speaker 1: is holding it. Harry takes a dirty sock from the
Speaker 1: floor and shoves it into the book's pages, and then
Speaker 1: he says, Master Dobby's been asking can he have this,
Speaker 1: referring to the book. Lucius, disgusted by the dirty sock,
Speaker 1: throws the book over his shoulder to Dobby. Then the
Speaker 1: moment happens. Dobby catches the book, he sees the sock.
Speaker 1: His master has given him clothing. He is free. Master
Speaker 1: has given a sock. He whispers, Master gave it to Dobby.
Speaker 1: What's that? Says Lucius, What did you say? Master gave
Speaker 1: Doppy a sock? Dorby repeats his voice, trembling. Master through it.
Speaker 1: Dorby caught it. Dobby is free. Lucius Malfoy is stunned.
Speaker 1: It's destroyed, he says, and he tries to attack Harry,
Speaker 1: but Dumbledore steps in and Dobby is free. He clicks
Speaker 1: his fingers and vanishes with a crack. This is the
Speaker 1: inciting incident, the moment of liberation. It is so simple,
Speaker 1: so accidental. It's not a grand spell, it's not a
Speaker 1: heroic jewel. It's laundry. It is the magic of clothing,
Speaker 1: the magic of ownership being transferred. It is a loophole
Speaker 1: used against itself. Harry, in trying to get a book signed,
Speaker 1: gives a sock. Malfoy, in his haste, gives freedom. It
Speaker 1: is ironic and it is perfect. Now what happens next,
Speaker 1: This is where we really get into the theory Dobby
Speaker 1: is free. This is where we start to see something
Speaker 1: rather interesting about Dobby's character, something that goes beyond the
Speaker 1: simple question of house elf obedience, something that suggests, perhaps
Speaker 1: that the bonds of servitude are not quite as absolute
Speaker 1: as we might be led to believe. Let us move
Speaker 1: on now to the moment of Dobby's actual liberation, the
Speaker 1: moment that changed everything. This occurs in Harry Potter and
Speaker 1: the Chamber of Secrets, chapter eighteen, titled Tobby's Reward, and
Speaker 1: it is I think one of the most important moments
Speaker 1: in the entire series, not because of its dramatic impact,
Speaker 1: but because of what it reveals about the nature of
Speaker 1: freedom and about the nature of magic itself. The scene
Speaker 1: unfolds as follows. Harry has just defeated the memory of
Speaker 1: Tom Riddle in the Chamber of secrets. He has destroyed
Speaker 1: the diary, he has saved Ginny Weasley, and he has
Speaker 1: returned to the office of Beilderoy Lockhart, where Lucy's Malfoy
Speaker 1: has been waiting with Dobby at his side. Harry, still
Speaker 1: holding the diary, needs to get rid of it. He
Speaker 1: needs to get Lucius Malfoy to leave so he can
Speaker 1: destroy the diary safely. And so he thinks quickly, or
Speaker 1: rather he thinks as quickly as a twelve year old
Speaker 1: boy who has just survived battle with a dark wizard
Speaker 1: can think. Harry wraps the diary in a sock, just
Speaker 1: a plain ordinary sock, and he hands it to Lucius Malfoy.
Speaker 1: He says, and this is from the text. He says,
Speaker 1: I think I'll just leave this here for you to
Speaker 1: clean up. Now. Lucius Malfoy, who is rather arrogant and
Speaker 1: rather dismissive of Harry Potter, takes the bundle without thinking.
Speaker 1: He unwraps it, He finds a sock. And what does
Speaker 1: he do with that sock? He throws it at Dorpy,
Speaker 1: He throws it at Darby and says something dismissive, something
Speaker 1: about cleaning it, and that that moment is when Darpy
Speaker 1: becomes free because Darby catches the sock. Dorby holds the sack,
Speaker 1: and Darby puts it on, and Lucius Malfoy, who has
Speaker 1: just given a piece of clothing to his house elf,
Speaker 1: realize it what has happened, and he is not pleased.
Speaker 1: Now let us pause here, let us slow down even further,
Speaker 1: because there is a very important detail in this scene
Speaker 1: that I want to examine carefully. The sock, the piece
Speaker 1: of clothing, is what frees Dby. This is consistent with
Speaker 1: what we learn later in the series about house elf liberation.
Speaker 1: In Order of the Phoenix, we learn that house elves
Speaker 1: can be freed when their masters give them clothing. This
Speaker 1: is a specific form of magic, a specific type of
Speaker 1: enchantment that appears to be deeply embedded in the fabric
Speaker 1: of wizarding society. In Order of the Phoenix, chapter nine,
Speaker 1: The Order of the Phoenix, we learn about s P. E. W.
Speaker 1: The Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare, which Hermione
Speaker 1: Granger founded, And in that chapter and in subsequent chapters,
Speaker 1: we learn a great deal about the legal and magical
Speaker 1: status of houselves in Wizarding Britain. But let us not
Speaker 1: get ahead of ourselves. There is no rush. Let your
Speaker 1: mind wander, let the details settle like snow on a
Speaker 1: quiet lawn. The point is the sock freed Dobby. And
Speaker 1: this was not an accident. Harry did this intentionally. Harry
Speaker 1: gave the diary to Lucius Malfoy wrapped in a sock,
Speaker 1: specifically so that Malfoy would give the sop to Dobby.
Speaker 1: This is quite clever, actually for a twelve year old.
Speaker 1: It shows a kind of thinking, a hit that is
Speaker 1: not always present in Harry's character. He planned this, he
Speaker 1: thought about it. He knew that giving clothing to a
Speaker 1: house elf would set it free. And here is the
Speaker 1: question I want us to consider to Night. How did
Speaker 1: Harry know this? Where did he learn this information? Because
Speaker 1: if you look back at the earlier chapters of Chamber
Speaker 1: of Secrets, if you look carefully at what Harry knew
Speaker 1: and when he knew it, you will find that Harry
Speaker 1: did not actually have a detailed understanding of house self liberation.
Speaker 1: At that point. He knew Dobby was enslaved, he knew
Speaker 1: Dobby was being mistreated. But the specific knowledge that giving
Speaker 1: a house half clothing would free it, where did that
Speaker 1: come from? Well, the answer I think is that it
Speaker 1: was simply common knowledge, even among twelve your aunts who
Speaker 1: had never heard of house els before, because the freeing
Speaker 1: of households through clothing was such a fundamental part of
Speaker 1: wizarding culture that even some one who had been raised
Speaker 1: by muggles would somehow know it. Or perhaps Harry simply guessed.
Speaker 1: Perhaps he saw an opportunity and took it. Perhaps he
Speaker 1: saw Lucius Malfoy about to add something to Dobby and
Speaker 1: he realized, perhaps instinctively, that this could work in his favor.
Speaker 1: Either way, the result was the same. Dobby caught the sock.
Speaker 1: Dobby was free. And now let us explore what happened next,
Speaker 1: because this is where the story gets rather interesting. In
Speaker 1: Chamber of Secrets, in the chapter titled Dobby's Reward, we
Speaker 1: see Dobby's immediate reaction to his freedom, and it is
Speaker 1: quite something. Dobby is overwhelmed with gratitude. He is crying,
Speaker 1: He is thanking Harry, he says, and I AM going
Speaker 1: to try to get this right. He says, something like,
Speaker 1: Master has given a sock. Did some one give Dobby
Speaker 1: a sock? Master gave it to Dobby? What's this Master
Speaker 1: is wearing? It. Dobby is free. Dobby is free. Now.
Speaker 1: This is a moment of pure joy, pure unfiltered happiness. Dobby,
Speaker 1: who has spent his entire life in servitude, who has
Speaker 1: been beaten and mistreated and forced to iron his own hands,
Speaker 1: is suddenly miraculously completely free. But here is what I
Speaker 1: find fascinating about this moment. Dobby does not know what
Speaker 1: freedom means. He has never been free before. He has
Speaker 1: never had the experience of making his own choices, of
Speaker 1: living his own life, of determining his own future. He
Speaker 1: knows that he is no longer bound to the Malfoys,
Speaker 1: he knows that he no longer has to obey their commands.
Speaker 1: But what does he do with that freedom? What does
Speaker 1: it look like in practical terms, for a house of
Speaker 1: to be free. This is something we will explore in
Speaker 1: more depth as tonight's episode continues, but first, let us
Speaker 1: take a moment to consider the wider implications of Dobby's freedom.
Speaker 1: Because Dobby's liberation, this small, seemingly insignificant event in the
Speaker 1: life of a twelve year old boy, had consequences that
Speaker 1: extended far beyond that moment. Let your mind wander now
Speaker 1: to the later books, to the moments when Dobby appears
Speaker 1: again in the story, because he does appear again many times,
Speaker 1: and each time he is free. Each time he is
Speaker 1: acting on his own volition. He is making his own choices.
Speaker 1: In Goblet of Fire chapter twenty three, the your Ball
Speaker 1: Derby appears at Hackwarts. He has obtained a position as
Speaker 1: a house health in the kitchens. This is interesting because
Speaker 1: it suggests that free house ELFs, those who have been liberated,
Speaker 1: can still choose to work. They are not forced to work,
Speaker 1: they are not compelled by magic. They simply choose to
Speaker 1: And this choice, this act of choosing to work, is
Speaker 1: fundamentally different from the servitude they experienced before. It is
Speaker 1: work freely chosen, what performed for reasons of their own choosing.
Speaker 1: And this this is what freedom looks like in its
Speaker 1: most basic form. Darby tells Harry that he has been
Speaker 1: working for a small wage. He mentioned and this is
Speaker 1: a delightful detail. He mentions that he has been requesting
Speaker 1: every other saturday off. Every other saturday. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: a house elfful who has been enslaved for centuries asking
Speaker 1: for time off. It is quite remarkable, and this is
Speaker 1: another piece of evidence for our exploration tonight evidence that
Speaker 1: Dobby's freedom was not just a legal technicality. It was
Speaker 1: not just a change in paperwork. It was a fundamental
Speaker 1: transformation in how Dobby understood himself and his place in
Speaker 1: the world. Let us move now to another important moment,
Speaker 1: and this one, this one is rather sad. So let
Speaker 1: your mind stay calm, let your breathing remain slow and steady.
Speaker 1: There is no need to feel alarm. It is just
Speaker 1: a story, just words on a page, just a sleepy
Speaker 1: podcast host rambling on in the dark. In Order of
Speaker 1: the Phoenix, we see Dobby again. He has continued to
Speaker 1: work at Hogwarts. He is still free, and he is
Speaker 1: still choosing to serve. But now he is also choosing
Speaker 1: to help Harry. And this is where something rather interesting happens.
Speaker 1: Because Dobby free, Dobby comes to Harry with information. He
Speaker 1: tells Harry about the Room of Requirement. He tells Harry
Speaker 1: that he has discovered a way to enter the hidden
Speaker 1: room the Dumbledore's army has been using for their meetings.
Speaker 1: Now this is significant because it shows that Dobby's loyalty
Speaker 1: to Harry is not the same as the compulsive obedience
Speaker 1: of an enslaved houseelf. It is a freely chosen lawyer.
Speaker 1: It is a bond that Dobby has decided to maintain
Speaker 1: of his own free will, and that that is a
Speaker 1: very different thing. An enslaved houseelf serves because it has
Speaker 1: no choice. Her free house elf, who chooses to serve,
Speaker 1: who chooses to help, who chooses to be loyal, is
Speaker 1: making a moral decision. It is an act of agency,
Speaker 1: an act of will. And this distinction, this important distinction,
Speaker 1: is at the heart of tonight's exploration. Let us consider now,
Speaker 1: in the quiet, slow, plodding way, that this podcast encourages,
Speaker 1: what Dobby's freedom might have meant for the wider house
Speaker 1: elf population. In Order of the Phoenix, Chapter nine where
Speaker 1: introduced to sp en g and Hermione Granger. Dear wonderful,
Speaker 1: well meaning Hermione Granger begins her campaign for house elf rights. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to be careful here because this is not
Speaker 1: a topic that invites strong emotions. This is a sleepy podcast.
Speaker 1: We are here to drift off to sleep. So let
Speaker 1: me describe Hermione's campaign in the most boring terms possible.
Speaker 1: Hermione starts a society, the Society for the Promotion of
Speaker 1: Elfish Welfare. She knits hats. She places them in the
Speaker 1: gryffindor common room. She hopes that house else will find
Speaker 1: them and wear them, thereby becoming free. The house elves
Speaker 1: do not appreciate this. In fact, the house elves are
Speaker 1: quite offended by Hermione's efforts. They refuse to clean the
Speaker 1: gryffindor common room because they do not want to touch
Speaker 1: the hats. They see Hermione's gifts as an insult, an
Speaker 1: attempt to trick them into freedom that they do not want.
Speaker 1: And here here is where we see the complexity of
Speaker 1: the house elf situation. Darby is free, Darby is happy
Speaker 1: to be free. But not all house elves want to
Speaker 1: be free. Not all house else see freedom as something desirable.
Speaker 1: Many house else, perhaps most house elves are contempt with
Speaker 1: their servitude. They have been raised in it, They understand it.
Speaker 1: It is all they know. This is rather sad when
Speaker 1: you think about it, But it is also rather complicated,
Speaker 1: because if a house elf does not want to be free,
Speaker 1: if a house self is content in its servitude, can
Speaker 1: is it right to force freedom upon it? Is it
Speaker 1: right to insist that all ourselves should want what Hermione
Speaker 1: wants them to want? These are questions that have no
Speaker 1: easy answers, and to night, we are not here to
Speaker 1: find answers. We are here to explore the questions, slowly, gently,
Speaker 1: in the most boring way possible. Let us return now
Speaker 1: to Dobby. Because Dobby, despite being free, despite having the
Speaker 1: option to live a life of his own choosing, continues
Speaker 1: to serve. He continues to work, He continues to be
Speaker 1: loyal to Harry Potter, and this suggests something rather interesting
Speaker 1: about the nature of freedom. It suggests that freedom is
Speaker 1: not about what you do, it is about why you
Speaker 1: do it. Dobby works, Dobby serves, Dobby helps, But he
Speaker 1: does these things because he wants to, because he has
Speaker 1: chosen to, because he has decided that these are the
Speaker 1: things that give his life meaning, and that that is
Speaker 1: a rather profound realization for a sleepy podcast about a
Speaker 1: household in a children's book. Let us move on now
Speaker 1: to another piece of evidence, another moment from the book
Speaker 1: that sheds light on Dobby's freedom and its implications. In
Speaker 1: Order of the Phoenix, chapter twenty three, Christmas at Hargwatts,
Speaker 1: we see a rather touching scene. Harry gives Dobby a
Speaker 1: pair of socks for Christmas, and Dobby is overwhelmed with gratitude.
Speaker 1: He treasures these sucks. He considers them the greatest gift
Speaker 1: he has ever received. Now, this might seem like a
Speaker 1: small thing, a minor detail, a throwaway moment in a
Speaker 1: very long book, but it is actually quite significant because
Speaker 1: Harry gave Dobby socks socks, and Dobby treasures them because socks,
Speaker 1: clothing is what freed him. Socks are the symbol of
Speaker 1: his liberation. Socks represent everything that Doarpy has gained since
Speaker 1: leaving the Malfoys, and Harry understood this. Harry, who was
Speaker 1: only fifteen at the time, understood that for Darpy, socks
Speaker 1: were not just socks. They were a reminder of freedom,
Speaker 1: a reminder that someone cared enough to set him free.
Speaker 1: This is quite beautiful, actually, in a very quiet, very sleepy,
Speaker 1: very understated way. Let your mind wonder. Now the Chamber
Speaker 1: of Secrets again, to the moment just after Dobby is freed,
Speaker 1: when Lucius Malfoy is furious, when he reaches for his
Speaker 1: wand when he threatens Harry, and when Dobby tiny free,
Speaker 1: Dobby steps in to protect him. This is the first
Speaker 1: act of free will that Dobby performs after his liberation.
Speaker 1: His very first choice as a free being is to
Speaker 1: protect someone, to stand between danger and someone he cares about,
Speaker 1: to use his freedom not for himself, not for his
Speaker 1: own benefit, but for someone else. And this, this is
Speaker 1: the essence of Dobby's character. This is what makes him
Speaker 1: so special. This is what makes his freedom so meaningful.
Speaker 1: Because Dorby could have used his freedom in any number
Speaker 1: of ways. He could have simply walked away. He could
Speaker 1: have disappeared into the magical world and never spoken to
Speaker 1: another wizard again. He could have chosen to focus entirely
Speaker 1: on his own needs, his own wants, his own desires.
Speaker 1: But he didn't. Instead, he chose to help. He chose
Speaker 1: to serve. He chose to be loyal, He chose to
Speaker 1: put others before himself. And he made these choices freely,
Speaker 1: without compulsion, without magical binding, without anyone forcing him to
Speaker 1: do so. This is rather extraordinary. Now, let us consider
Speaker 1: one more thing before we move toward the end of
Speaker 1: tonight's episode, and this is perhaps the most important piece
Speaker 1: of evidence of all. In Chamber of Secrets, in the
Speaker 1: chapter The Very Secret Diary, when Harry destroys the diary
Speaker 1: and the memory of Tom Riddle is defeated, Dorby appears.
Speaker 1: He comes to help Harry. He helps Harry find a
Speaker 1: way out of the Chamber of Secrets. He helps Harry
Speaker 1: and Ron and Genie escape, and after they escape, after
Speaker 1: they return to the service, Dorby is there waiting, ready
Speaker 1: to help, ready to serve. But here is the thing.
Speaker 1: At this point, before Harry has given Lucius Malfoy the sock,
Speaker 1: Doarby is still enslaved. He is still bound, He is
Speaker 1: still a servant of the Malfoy family, and yet he
Speaker 1: defies his master again. He comes to help Harry again,
Speaker 1: He puts himself at risk again. He does all of
Speaker 1: this while still being bound by magical compulsion. This is
Speaker 1: the same thing we saw at the beginning of the book. Dobby,
Speaker 1: even while enslaved, is capable of moral choice. He is
Speaker 1: capable of defying his master. He is capable of putting
Speaker 1: others before himself. And this this is the central paradox
Speaker 1: of Dobby's character. He is enslaved, but he is not
Speaker 1: entirely controlled. He is bound, but he is not entirely broken.
Speaker 1: There is something inside him, some spark of defiance, some
Speaker 1: kernel of moral courage, that the magical bonds of servitude
Speaker 1: cannot entirely suppress. And this, this is rather profound if
Speaker 1: you let yourself think about it, which of course we
Speaker 1: won't because this is a sleepy podcast and we are
Speaker 1: here to drift off to sleep, not to have profound
Speaker 1: thoughts about the nature of freedom and the human or
Speaker 1: rather the house elf spirit. Let your mind wander now,
Speaker 1: let the details blurer together, learn the specific words in
Speaker 1: chapters and quotes fade into a gentle hum of background noise.
Speaker 1: We have covered quite a lot tonight. We have looked
Speaker 1: at how Darby first appeared. We have examined the moment
Speaker 1: of his liberation. We have explored what freedom meant for
Speaker 1: Dobby personally. We have considered the wider implications for the
Speaker 1: house elf population. We have looked at sp e W
Speaker 1: and Hermione's campaign. We have examined Darby's choices after his freedom,
Speaker 1: and we have considered the paradox of his pre freedom defiance.
Speaker 1: There is more, of course, there is more. There is
Speaker 1: always more to say about these books. There are always
Speaker 1: more details to examine, more quotes, consider, more tangents to explore.
Speaker 1: But to night to night, I think I have done enough.
Speaker 1: We have been thorough. We have been plooding, We have
Speaker 1: been appropriately boring, and now it is time to rest.
Speaker 1: So let me leave you with one final thought. And
Speaker 1: it is a simple thought, the kind of thought that
Speaker 1: is easy to hold in your mind as you drift
Speaker 1: toward sleep. Dobby was free and he was happy, and
Speaker 1: he used his freedom well. He helped others, he made choices,
Speaker 1: he lived his life on his own terms. And even
Speaker 1: though his story ends sadly, and we will not talk
Speaker 1: about that to night, because this is a sleepy podcast
Speaker 1: and some things are too sad for bed time, even
Speaker 1: though his story end sadly, his freedom was real, His
Speaker 1: freedom mattered, His freedom was worth having, and that that
Speaker 1: is enough for to night. So close your eyes now,
Speaker 1: Let the soft rhythm of my voice carry you towards sleep.
Speaker 1: Let the details of this episode settle into the back
Speaker 1: of your mind, where they will wait patiently until you
Speaker 1: need them or until you forget them entirely. Either way,
Speaker 1: it is fine. There is no rush. There is nothing
Speaker 1: you need to do, There is no way you need
Speaker 1: to be. There is only this moment, tis quiet, still,
Speaker 1: peaceful moment. Sleep well, good night, and thank you for
Speaker 1: listening to Muggle Snuggle