– English Lyrics

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Woo-hoo-hoo!

Ah-hah!

Harry Potter,

such an honour it is.

Who are you?

Dobby, sir.

Dobby the house-elf.

Not to be rude or anything,

but this isn't a great time for me

to have a house-elf in my bedroom.

Oh, oh, yes, sir.

Dobby understands,

it's just that Dobby has come to tell you...

It is difficult, sir.

Dobby wonders where to begin.

Why don't you sit down?

"Sit down."

S — Sit — Sit down?

Oh, oh.

Dobby, shush, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to offend you or anything.

Offend Dobby?

Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir,

but never has he been asked

to sit down by a wizard

like an equal.

You can't have met

many decent wizards, then.

No, I haven't.

That was an awful thing to say.

Bad Dobby!

[Harry] Stop, Dobby! [Dobby] Bad Dobby!

[Harry] Dobby, shush. [Dobby] Bad Dobby!

Dobby, please stop.

[Banging from upstairs]

Oh, don't mind that, it's just the cat.

[Banging]

Bad Dobby!

Stop.

Stop, Dobby.

Please be quiet.

Are you all right?

Dobby had to punish himself, sir,

Dobby almost spoke ill of his family, sir.

Your family?

The wizard family Dobby serves, sir.

Dobby is bound to serve one family forever.

If they ever knew Dobby was here...

But Dobby had to come.

Dobby has to protect Harry Potter,

to warn him,

Harry Potter must not go back

to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

this year.

There is a plot,

a plot to make most terrible things happen.

What terrible things?

Who's plotting them?

He can't say.

Okay, I understand.

[Harry] You can't say. [Dobby] Don't make me talk.

Dobby.

Dobby, put the lamp down.

So, when they arrive at the ninth hole...

[Dobby shouting]

Give me the lamp!

Get off me!

Dobby, stop.

Get in there, and keep quiet.

What the devil are you doing up here?

I — I was just —

You just ruined the punchline

of my Japanese golfer joke.

Sorry.

One more sound

and you'll wish you'd never been born, boy.

And fix that door!

Yes, sir.

See why I've got to go back?

I don't belong here.

I belong in your world, at Hogwarts.

It's the only place I've got friends.

Friends who don't even write to Harry Potter?

Well, I expect they've been...

Hang on, how do you know my friends

haven't been writing to me?

Harry Potter mustn't be angry with Dobby.

Dobby hoped

if Harry Potter thought his friends

had forgotten him,

Harry Potter might not want

to go back to school, sir.

Give me those

now.

No!

Dobby, get back here.

Dobby,

please, no.

Harry Potter must say

he's not going back to school.

I can't, Hogwarts is my home.

Then Dobby must do it, sir,

for Harry Potter's own good.

[Uncle Vernon] It was spread

as far as the eye could see,

all over the floor of this vast building.

And one plumber said,

"Look at all that water."

And the second plumber said,

"Yes, and that's just the top of it."

I'm so sorry.

It's my nephew, he's very disturbed.

Meeting strangers upsets him,

that's why I kept him upstairs.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
honour /ˈɒn.ər/ B2	noun - great respect or high public regard
rude /ruːd/ A2	adjective - speaking or behaving in a way that is not polite
offend /əˈfend/ B2	verb - to cause someone to feel upset or annoyed
greatness /ˈɡreɪt.nəs/ B2	noun - the quality of being great, distinguished, or eminent
wizard /ˈwɪz.əd/ B2	noun - a man who has magical powers
equal /ˈiː.kwəl/ A2	adjective - being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value
decent /ˈdiː.sənt/ B1	adjective - socially acceptable or good
awful /ˈɔː.fəl/ A2	adjective - very bad or unpleasant
punish /ˈpʌn.ɪʃ/ A2	verb - to cause someone to suffer for an offense
bound /baʊnd/ B2	adjective - tied or constrained by
protect /prəˈtekt/ A2	verb - to keep safe from harm
plot /plɒt/ B2	noun - a secret plan to do something illegal or harmful
terrible /ˈter.ə.bəl/ A2	adjective - extremely bad or serious
ruin /ruː.ɪn/ B1	verb - to spoil or destroy completely
disturbed /dɪˈstɜːbd/ B2	adjective - having emotional or mental problems

Key Grammar Structures

• Not to be rude or anything, but this isn't a great time for me to have a house-elf in my bedroom.

  ➔ Infinitive phrase as an introductory comment

  ➔ "Not to be rude" is an infinitive used to soften a statement or set a tone before the main clause.

• Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but never has he been asked to sit down by a wizard like an equal.

  ➔ Inversion after a negative adverb

  ➔ "Never has he been" uses inversion (verb before subject) for emphasis after the negative adverb "never".

• Dobby is bound to serve one family forever.

  ➔ Passive voice with a state-describing adjective

  ➔ "Is bound to" uses the passive construction with the adjective "bound" to describe a permanent state of obligation.

• Harry Potter must not go back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.

  ➔ Modal verb of obligation/prohibition

  ➔ "Must not" is used here to strongly advise or prohibit an action.

• Friends who don't even write to Harry Potter?

  ➔ Relative clause with 'who'

  ➔ The clause "who don't even write to Harry Potter" functions as an adjective to modify the noun "Friends".

• Dobby hoped if Harry Potter thought his friends had forgotten him, Harry Potter might not want to go back to school, sir.

  ➔ Reported speech with complex conditional structure

  ➔ "Hoped if... might not" combines reported thought with a hypothetical conditional (past shift).

• One more sound and you'll wish you'd never been born, boy.

  ➔ Conditional imperative + Third conditional structure

  ➔ "You'd never been born" uses the past perfect to express a hypothetical situation in the past.

• Meeting strangers upsets him, that's why I kept him upstairs.

  ➔ Gerund as subject

  ➔ "Meeting strangers" is a gerund phrase acting as the subject of the verb "upsets".