President Dobby

The BBC reports: "Dobby the house-elf could be taken to court because some people think he looks like the Russian president." The article includes an unflattering picture of Dobby, who is apparently a Harry Potter character. I'm not sure who's supposed to be insulting Putin here -- the Potter filmmakers, or the people who claim to see a physical resemblance between the elf and the head of state.

Comments

[Tom Foolery]

The analogy may be apt! Both ex-spook Putin and Dobby can disappear with a snap of their fingers, and are forbidden from discussing the sordid details of their former masters by...I dunno, Law of the House Elves or somesuch.

[Steve]

OK. The face is similar in shape and the eyes are similar....but that goes for about a half-billion people.

ESPN thinks Steve Spurrier looks like Dobby.