--- title: "2.2 Dobby's Warning" date: 2020-03-02T01:19:59-04:00 draft: false tags: - Chamber of Secrets episodeTitle: "Dobby's Warning" episodeSubtitle: "Harry Potter is valiant and bold! He has braved so many dangers already! Dobby has come to protect Harry Potter, to warn him, even if he does have to shut his ears in the oven door later..." episodeLength: 26726423 episodeURL: https://cdn.podtrificustotalus.com/chamber/202DobbysWarning.mp3 episodeDuration: 36:24 episodeSeason: 2 episodeNumber: 2 featuredImage: /pottermore/202.webp --- {{< audio src="https://cdn.podtrificustotalus.com/chamber/202DobbysWarning.mp3" >}} It's Monday, and that means a new episode of Podtrificus Totalus, a Harry Potter podcast done chapter by chapter, book by book. This episode continues our coverage of *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*. In the second chapter, we meet Dobby the House Elf, who reveals a dangerous plot at Hogwarts that he'll do anything to keep Harry away from -- including spelling out trouble with the Dursleys. We make a number of references to outside sources and popular culture, which are listed below: - Dobby's birthday is June 28th, according to [this Tweet](https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/747927607409270784?lang=en) - Hobgoblin and dobby in *Oxford English Dictionary* - [Dobby](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/dobby/) on the Harry Potter Lexicon - *Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter* by Galadriel Waters (Ed. Astre Mithrandir; Published by Wizarding World Press in 2003) - *Avatar: The Last Airbender* - [Mafalda Hopkirk](ttps://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Mafalda_Hopkirk) on the Harry Potter Wiki - The [Hover Charm](https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Hover_Charm) on the Harry Potter Wiki Our Spell of the Week for this episode is the Hover Charm, which Dobby uses to levitate Petunia's pudding and land Harry in a heap of trouble with the Dursleys.