"Vizet! Luna!" Dobby cried, about to shove the bag into Vizet's hands.
Vizet raised a hand and blocked the bag Dobby was trying to push over.
"Vizet, take this! Dobby wants to give this to you!" Dobby said, his voice growing even shriller with excitement and nerves.
Luna crouched down too, looking Dobby in the eye as she asked, "Dobby, what's inside is..."
Before Luna could finish the question, Dobby shook the bag and explained anxiously, "Luna, this is all Dobby's pay!"
"Vizet, Luna, and Mr. Lovegood all buy things for Dobby. Dobby never lacks anything! So Dobby saved all his pay!"
"Dobby and Vizet, Luna, and Mr. Lovegood are family now! This is what family should do! Whatever the family needs can be taken from here!"
Vizet and Luna exchanged a glance, then turned back to Dobby and asked, "Dobby, how did you get that idea? Who told you that?"
Dobby proudly puffed out his chest. "Some of it Dobby asked Mrs. Weasley about, and some of it Dobby discovered himself!"
"Since Dobby and Vizet, Luna, and Mr. Lovegood are family now, Dobby ought to hand over the money!"
"Just like Mr. Weasley, who gives his pay to Mrs. Weasley." He shook the bag again. "Whatever the family needs, it can be taken from here!"
Hearing Dobby say that, both Vizet and Luna couldn't help laughing.
Dobby's logic was very simple—so simple it was a little clumsy and adorable.
To Dobby, once everyone became "family," they should be like the Weasleys he had observed, taking out their things and sharing them together.
And the only thing Dobby could take out right now was the pay he had accumulated, so of course he ought to contribute it without drawing any lines between them.
Vizet waved a hand and said, "Dobby,