Five years later,

Dobby stood in front of mirror as he was dressing himself. Today was to be a very special day for him. He pulled his shirt over his head and then as he began to button the shirt up he looked at the thin white scar in the middle of his chest. It was his scar of pride. He had gotten it from saving the life of the person he loved most in the world, and Harry Potter had gotten his scar in a bit of a similar way so now they were all the more alike.

Next he put on a dark blue jacket and then proceeded to tie a matching bow-tie around his neck. As he finished with this, he noticed the door behind him opening and Nifty walking into the room and coming up behind him.

"Good morning, Nifty," Dobby said cheerily.

"Good morning, Dobby," Nifty replied with a small smile. She then began to look quite serious as she came up beside him. She looked like she was finding it difficult to speak. Dobby became concerned at this.

"Is anything wrong, Nifty?" he asked gently.

"No, nothing at all is wrong," Nifty assured him. Then she sighed and said, "It's just that Nifty is so happy for you and yet feels sad all at the same time too."

Dobby looked at her in confusion. "What does Nifty mean? How can that be?"

"Nifty means she is happy that Dobby and Winky are going to get married today, and after all marriage happens very rarely among us house-elves. And she is also more than happy Dobby will then be moving in with Harry Potter in Godric's Hollow as his servant as he always wanted to do. Nifty knows she should be happy about all these things for Dobby and she is! And yet... she is sad because she will really miss Dobby so terribly."

Dobby now understood completely. "Dobby will miss Nifty, too, he will," he said.

He then tenderly. He then wrapped his arms around Nifty and hugged her tightly and Nifty said, "Nifty has to confess to Dobby, she does, that she had always felt the same for Dobby that he feels now for Winky, she did."

Dobby pulled back and looked at Nifty briefly in shock. Then a light of understanding came into his eyes as he said, "Dobby at one time felt the same way for Nifty, too, he did. He found himself choosing Winky as he knew Winky was in need of someone to care for her, she was. And now Winky is happier than she ever was in her life to be Dobby's mate and Harry Potter's house-elf also, she is."

Nifty nodded and smiled. "Nifty knows, and she is happy for them both. She wouldn't want anything but happiness for her two closest friends in the world."

Then they were silent for a while until Dobby asked, "Would Nifty like to come and live with Dobby and Winky with Master Harry Potter?"

Nifty smiled sadly and shook her head gently as she said, "Nifty does not want to leave Hogwarts. It is her home as it has been that of her family's for seven centuries, it has."

Dobby's ears drooped slightly. But he nodded with understanding. Then he said, "Dobby will never forget Nifty, he won't."

"Nifty will never forget Dobby, either, she won't," Nifty promised him with tears coming to her eyes.

Dobby sniffled and then he asked, "Will Nifty at least like to be Winky's Maid of Honor?"

Nifty's eyes lit up as she exclaimed, "Oh yes! Nifty would love to!"

So then Dobby and Winky were married shortly afterward and then the two elves went to live happily with Harry Potter and eventually they would have more members of their family. But that is another story.