Hokey - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2005)

An elderly house elf in the service of Hepzibah Smith, Hokey performed numerous requests for mistress, serving her loyally and faithfully despite the constant stream of instructions placed upon her. Among many of those tasks, Hokey was to flatter her mistress about how she looked, which some people remarked were all lies she was told to say to fulfil her contract.

During Tom Riddle's time employed at Borgin and Burkes, Hokey witness several meetings between his mistress and the sales assistant.

On the afternoon of their final meeting, Hokey helped Hepzibah into her slippers, before answering his mistress' hurried command to get the door. Showing Tom into the room, she rushed off to bring the young assistant some of Hepzibah's homemade cakes, before lifting the enchantments protecting Helga Hufflepuff's Cup and Salazar Slytherine's Locket and returning with the treasures in presentation boxes. Setting down the boxes on her lap, Hokey stood by and watched Tom examine the Cup, taking it off her mistress when they were done with it.

Arriving for a fourth time, she took the box back to their hiding place, following his mistress' direction to seal them up with the "usual enchantments."

Two days later, Hokey was accused of the murder of Hepzibah Smith and was arrested by the Ministry of Magic. Having had her memories altered by Tom Riddle, Hokey confessed to have put a rare and dangerous poison into her evening hot chocolate, mistaking it to be sugar. She was convicted with charges of manslaughter, not looking further into the events after obtaining a supposed admission of her guilt, placing it on her having lost her faculties in her old age. Nobody on the Wizardgomot realised Hokey or Smith's connection to the two treasures of Hogwarts, which the Smith family discovered were missing by the time she was sentenced.

In an effort to discover the truth behind the early years of Lord Voldermort's rise to power, Dumbledore located Hokey and extracted her memories, in a hope that it could determine how to defeat the Dark Lord and also posthumously pardon her for Voldermort's crimes - for Hokey died shortly after the memory was removed.

However all the memory managed to prove was that Tom Riddle knew about her possession of these two artefacts. It did not prove that he was responsible for killing the descendant of Hufflepuff and stealing her personal treasures.


"Lord Voldermort's Request"

Witnessing Hokey's memories in the pensive, Harry Potter expressed his disgust at the treatment of the House Elf, finding it difficult to admit that he shared the sympathy and values of Hermione Granger's "Society for the Preservation of Elfish Welfare."


Appearances:

1. "Lord Voldermort's Request" (First and Only Appearance/Flashback Only)