Boggarts, was Re: Susan Cooper (OT)

[machenback at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 6375

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> machenback at h... wrote:
> 
> I *knew* I'd heard Dobby before. Thanks. The obvious echoes of the 
shoemaker
> and the elves haven't been mentioned (that I've seen) so I 
will...the little
> hardworking elves, who are apparently freed (in their own 
estimation) by the
> gift of clothes....
> 
> And brownies weren't all nice; didn't you have to set out "sweet 
milk" for
> them and other such propitiation, lest they do unkind things (like 
make the
> cows go dry, tangle up the horses' manes, etc.)....?
> 
> Just rambling, been up late with a sick little one.
> 
> --Amanda

According to the same source, Brownies are faithful servants, quite 
happy to work hard all night although it is good manners to leave 
them a bowl of cream or porridge as a reward.They only really get 
annoyed (apart from the clothes thing) if they are spied on, laughed 
at or criticised.At that point they either storm out in a huff or 
transform into troublesome Boggarts and start causing real problems.I 
associate actual traditional elves with tangling up horses manes and 
so on; the so called "elf locks".