Keeping the metaphor alive

TMQ writes:

Many readers, including Mary Ellen A. of Charlotte, N.C. and Aaron L. of Washington, D.C., supposed that since TMQ called Steve Spurrier Dobby the Elf, I must now refer to Joe Gibbs as Professor Dumbledore. For those whose kids do not compel them to follow the Harry Potter saga, Dobby the Elf is a sniveling, wretched creature — and somehow Spurrier seemed to get smaller each week on the sidelines, in another year he might have become an elf — while Dumbledore is an all-knowing good wizard.