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Dobby

Appears 464 times in the books

Died:
March 1998

The Malfoys’ house-elf until Harry frees him with a sock. He spends years trying to protect Harry badly, then saves him, Ron, and Hermione from Malfoy Manor and dies on the beach at Shell Cottage.

Appears in

  1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

On the timeline

  1. 1998-03

    Malfoy Manor; Dobby dies

    The taboo on Voldemort’s name gets them caught. Dobby rescues them and dies on the beach. In the same stretch of weeks Voldemort opens Dumbledore’s tomb and takes the Elder Wand. Xenophilius Lovegood has already tried to trade them for Luna.