What's short, green, and stars in the latest Harry Potter film about the schoolboy wizard? The answer is Dobby, a computer-generated elf. The virtual actor has inspired a wave of public commentary ...

When Harry Potter Makers Were Threatened To Be Sued By Russian Lawyers For Similarities Between Dobby & Russia’s President Vladimir Putin The Chamber of Secrets, saw the introduction of a new ...

What does the stern-faced commander in chief of a million-strong army have in common with a self-effacing elf from a popular children's film? Nothing _ except perhaps a longish nose, piercing eyes ...

Dobby the house elf, a computer-animated character in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, has a long nose, buggy eyes, and a pinched expression—just like the president. (Putin, though, is ...

More ominous (and hilarious) was Russian lawyers’ outrage that the physical portrayal of Dobby, the House Elf in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” was allegedly modeled on Putin ...

And it's a masterpiece. While Putin and Dobby might be two things you would probably never put together yourself, the combo has been a long-running meme in Russia and Ukraine. In fact, in 2003 ...