You recall afternoons talking on the phone while crouching in the bedroom closet, and being convinced your child would be the first Ivy League college student to graduate wearing pullovers at the ceremony.
" Dobby is a free house-elf and he can obey anyone he likes and Dobby will do whatever Harry Potter wants him to do! " said Dobby, tears now streaming down his shriveled little face onto his jumper.
Ron had given him an enormous box of Every-Flavour Beans, Mr and Mrs Weasley the usual hand-knitted jumper and some mince pies, and Dobby a truly dreadful painting that Harry suspected had been done by the elf himself.
Yet he, too, is underappreciated-today synonymous with his most famous creation, a chalk-faced clown called Bip who sported a striped jumper and a crumpled stovepipe hat topped with a limp red flower.