Thursday, October 1, 2015

Free Dobby! (And maybe buy him a shirt.)



At the Warner Brother's studio tour at Leavesden in London, people have begun leaving socks at the case where a life-sized (for a house elf) Dobby stands inside, all in hopes of freeing him.

In case you're confused because you didn't read the Harry Potter books, Dobby is Harry's elf servant. House elves serve humans in the book series, and can free themselves from a life of slavery if given pieces of clothing. (I don't know what the logic is, just go with it.) In the books, Hermione knits socks and places them around Hogwarts hoping the elves find them and free themselves.

Which brings us back to the studio tour where socks are now being draped beside Dobby's case, as this Twitter post shows.


Isn't this cruelty though? Dobby's locked inside a case. How exactly is he going to be able to grab one of those socks. That's just teasing the poor little guy at this point. No wonder he has his eyes closed. He can't bear to look.





Now, I may be wrong, but the piece of clothing doesn't have to be a sock. So why not drape some other clothing for the poor guy outside the case. A shirt, a nice pair of slacks, some underwear. Dobby is wearing a sweat-stained and dirt-caked rag--and people are going to leave him mismatched socks? He needs an entire wardrobe, people.

And while I'm at it--what's up with so many cartoon characters lacking pants? Donald Duck and Porky Pig are prime examples. Both wear shirts--and bow ties, no less (BOW TIES!)--but no pants. So they can show their goodies, but damned if they aren't going to look stylish with the neckwear. Business up top, party down below, I guess.






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