Shadowing Practice: Every Dobby Scene In Harry Potter - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Mr. and Mrs. Mason, welcome to...
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NAH!
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NAH!
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NAH!
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Oh-ho-ho!
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NAH!
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Harry Potter!
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Such an honour it is! Who are you?
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Dobby, sir.
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Dobby the house elf.
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Not to be rude or anything, but this isn't a great time for me to have a house elf in my bedroom.
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Oh, oh, yes, sir.
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Dobby understands.
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It's just that Dobby has come to tell you...
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It is difficult, sir.
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Dobby wonders where to begin.
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Why don't you sit down?
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Sit down.
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Sit down.
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Dobby, shush, I'm sorry.
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I didn't mean to offend you or anything.
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Offend Dobby?
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Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but never has he been asked to sit down by a wizard.
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Like an equal.
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You can't have met many decent wizards, then.
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No, I haven't.
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That was an awful thing to say.
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Bad Dobby!
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Stop, Dobby!
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Bad Dobby!
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Bad Dobby!
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Bad Dobby!
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Bad Dobby!
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Bad Dobby, please stop!
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Oh, don't mind that.
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It's just the cat.
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Stop, Dobby!
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Stop, Dobby!
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Don't be quiet. Are you all right?
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Dobby had to punish himself, sir.
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Dobby almost spoke ill of his family, sir.
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Your family?
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The wizard family Dobby served, sir.
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Dobby is bound to serve one family forever if they ever knew Dobby was here.
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But Dobby had to come.
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Dobby has to protect Harry Potter to warn him.
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Harry Potter must not go back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.
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There is a plot.
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A plot to make most terrible things happen.
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What terrible things?
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Who's plotting them?
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Oh, he can't see.
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Okay, I understand.
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You can't see.
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Dobby, Dobby, put the lamp down.
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So, when they arrive at the ninth hole...
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Give me the lamp.
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Dobby, stop.
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Get in there and keep quiet.
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What the devil are you doing up here?
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I was just...
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You just ruined the punchline of my Japanese golfer joke.
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Sorry.
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One more sound and you'll wish you'd never been born, boy. And fix that door.
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Yes, sir.
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See why I've got to go back?
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I don't belong here.
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I belong in your world.
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Hogwarts.
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It's the only place I've got friends.
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Friends who don't even write to Harry Potter?
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Well, I expect they...
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Hang on.
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How do you know my friends haven't been writing to me?
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Harry Potter mustn't be angry with Dobby.
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Dobby hoped if Harry Potter thought his friends had forgotten him, Harry Potter might not want to go back to school, sir.
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Give me those now.
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Now!
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Dobby, get back here!
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It's disgusting.
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They're all for us.
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Dobby.
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Please, no. Harry Potter must say he's not going back to school.
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I can't.
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Hogwarts is my home.
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Then Dobby must do it, sir.
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For Harry Potter's own good.
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It's been spent as far as I can see all over the floor.
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It's been fast, Dobby.
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And one plumber said, look at all that water.
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And the second plumber said yes, and that's just the top of it.
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I'm so sorry.
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It's my nephew.
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He's very disturbed.
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Meeting strangers upsets him.
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That's why I kept him upstairs.
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HE SIGHS Hello!
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Dobby?
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Harry Potter should have listened to Dobby.
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Harry Potter should have gone back home when he missed the train.
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It was you.
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You stopped the barrier from letting Ron and me through.
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Indeed.
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Yes, sir.
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You nearly got Ron and me expelled.
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At least you would be away from here.
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Harry Potter must go home.
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Dobby thought his bludger would be enough to make Harry Potter see that...
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Your bludger?
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You made that bludger chase after me?
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Dobby feels most aggrieved, sir.
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Dobby had to iron his hands.
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You'd better clear off before my bones come back, Dobby, or I might strangle you.
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Dobby is used to death threats, sir.
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Dobby gets them five times a day at home.
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I don't suppose you could tell me why you're trying to kill me?
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Not kill you, sir.
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Never kill you.
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Dobby remembers how it was before Harry Potter triumphed over he who must not be maimed.
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We house elves were treated like vermin, sir.
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Of course, Dobby is still treated like vermin.
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Why do you wear that thing, Dobby?
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This, sir, is a mark of the house elves' enslavement.
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Dobby can only be freed if his master presents him with clothes.
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Listen!
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Listen!
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Terrible things are about to happen at Hogwarts.
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Harry Potter must not stay here now that history is to repeat itself.
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Repeat itself?
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You mean this has happened before?
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I shouldn't have said that.
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Stop!
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Stop!
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Stop!
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Stop, Dobby!
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Stop it!
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Stop it!
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Stop, Dobby!
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Tell me, Dobby, when did this happen before?
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Who's doing it now?
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Dobby cannot say, sir.
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Dobby only wants Harry Potter to be safe.
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No, Dobby.
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Tell me, who is it?
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What?
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Put him here.
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What happened?
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There's been another attack.
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I think...
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Do you know, I think he's been petrified, Madame Pomfrey.
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Perhaps he managed to take a picture of his attacker.
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What can this mean, Albus?
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It means that our students are in great danger.
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What should I tell the staff?
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The truth.
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Tell them Hogwarts is no longer safe.
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It is as we feared Minerva.
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The Chamber of Secrets has indeed been opened again.
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Dobby!
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So this is your master?
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The family you serve is the Malfoys?
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I'll deal with you later.
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Out of my way, Potter.
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So, it's true, you have returned.
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When the governors learned that Arthur Weasley's daughter was taken into the chamber, they saw fit to summon me back.
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Ridiculous.
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Curiously, Lucius, several of them were under the impression that you would curse their families
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if they did not agree to suspend me in the first place.
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How dare you?
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My self-concern has always been and will always be the welfare of this school and,
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of course, its students.
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The culprit has been identified, I presume?
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Oh, yes. And? Who was it?
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Voldemort.
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Ah.
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Only this time he chose to act through somebody else. By means of this.
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I see.
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Fortunately, our young Mr. Potter discovered it.
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One hopes that no more of Lord Voldemort's old school things should find their way into innocent hands.
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The consequences for the one responsible would be.. severe.
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Well, let us hope.. that Mr. Potter will always be around.. to save the day.
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Don't worry.
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I will be.
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Dumbledore.
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Come, Dobby.
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We're leaving.
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Sir, I wonder if I could have that.
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Mr. Malfoy!
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Mr. Malfoy!
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I have something of yours.
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Mine?
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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Oh, I think you do, sir.
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I think you slipped the diary into Ginny Weasley's cauldron that day at Diagon Alley.
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You do, do you?
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Why don't you prove it?
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Come, Dobby.
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Open it.
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Dobby?
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Master has given Dobby a sock.
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What?
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I didn't...
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Master has presented Dobby with clothes.
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Dobby is free.
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You've lost me, my servant!
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You shall not harm Harry Potter!
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Your parents were meddlesome fools too.
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Mark my words, Potter.
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One day soon.
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You are going to make the same sticky end.
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Harry Potter freed Dobby.
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How can Dobby ever repay him?
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Just promise me something.
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Anything, sir.
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Never try to save my life again.
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Oh, oh.
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Ah!
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Dobby?
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What are you doing here?
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Dobby's come to rescue Harry Potter, of course.
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Dobby will always be there for Harry Potter.
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Are you saying you can operate in and out of this room?
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Could you take us with you?
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Of course, I'm an elf.
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Works for me.
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Right, Dobby, I want you to take Luna and Mr. Ollivander.
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Shell cottage on the outskirts of Timworth.
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Trust me.
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Whenever you're ready, sir.
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Sir, I like her very much.
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Meet me at the top of the stairs in ten seconds.
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Ah!
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Uh... Who gets his wand?
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We're only going to ask you once.
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Oh, Goblin, think very, very carefully before you answer.
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I don't know.
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You don't know?
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Why won't you do your job?
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Who got into my vault? Who stole it?
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Who stole it?
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Well, it was last in your fault.
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The sword was there
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The same won't be said for this one like hell You smell the armors!
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Superfly!
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Stop!
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Drop your wands!
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I said drop him!
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Pick them up, trick him now!
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Well, well, well.
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Look what we have here.
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It's Harry Potter.
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It's all bright and shiny and new again.
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Just in time for the Dark Lord.
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Call him.
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Call him!
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I'm sorry.
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Stupid elf!
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You could've killed me!
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Dobby never meant to kill.
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Dobby only meant to maim or seriously injure.
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How dare you take a witch's wand?
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How dare you defy your masters?
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Dobby has no master.
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Dobby is a free elf.
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And Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends.
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Imani, you're alright.
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We're safe.
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We're all safe.
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Harry Potter.
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Dobby.
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Hold on.
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Hold on.
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Hold on.
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Okay?
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We'll fix you.
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Hermione, I'll have something in your bag.
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Hermione?
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Hermione?
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Help me!
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Help me!
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Such a beautiful place. To be with friends.
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Toby is happy to be with his friend.
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Harry Potter.
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We should close his eyes.
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Don't you think?
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There.
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Now he could be sleeping.
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I want to bury him.
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Properly.
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Without magic.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm
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sorry you
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Every Dobby Scene In Harry Potter”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Dobby, Potter, Harry, sir, master. This video has 293 sentences and 1535 words to shadow. The speech runs for 21:27. The speaker talks slowly, about 72 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 53 of its 293 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| wand noun | /wɑnd/ | A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority. |
| wizard noun | /ˈwɪzɚd/ | Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices. |
| dare verb | /dɛ(ə)ɹ/ | To have enough courage (to do something). |
| maim verb | /meɪm/ | To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body. |
| plumber noun | /ˈplʌm.əɹ/ | One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage. |
| vermin noun | /ˈvɝmɪn/ | Any of various common types of small insects or other animals which cause harm and annoyance. |
| offend verb | /əˈfɛnd/ | To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult. |
| elf noun | /ɛlf/ | A supernatural being or spirit associated with illness, mischief, and harmful or dangerous magical influence; in later Norse sources, sometimes divided into… |
| cloth noun | /klɒθ/ | A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes… |
| lamp noun | /ˈlæ̝mp/ | A device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb. |
| aggrieve verb | /əˈɡɹiːv/ | To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict |
| cauldron noun | /ˈkɔːl.dɹən/ | A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame. |
| culprit noun | /ˈkʌlpɹɪt/ | The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime. |
| curiously adverb | /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs.li/ | In a curious manner; with curiosity; inquisitively. |
| enslavement noun | The act of enslaving or the state of being a slave; bondage |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sit down verb | To assume a sitting position from a standing position. |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| clear off verb | To leave abruptly; scram. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
| do up verb | To fasten (a piece of clothing, etc.); to tighten (a nut etc.) |
| get back verb | Return to where one came from. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Why don't you sit down?
- See why I've got to go back?
- Why don't you prove it?
- Why won't you do your job?
- How dare you take a witch's wand?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has come · has heard · It's been spent |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | been asked · is bound · been born |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | should have · shouldn't have · should I tell |
| Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain | might not want · might strangle |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 50 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: cloth /klɒθ/, ninth /naɪnθ/
- Long words — get the stress right: curiously /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs.li/, fortunately /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like wand, wizard, dare.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.