[HPforGrownups] Re: House elves and holidays
Morag Traynor
moragt at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 15 01:47:12 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 16784
Samaporn wrote:
>I wasn't really surprised at Harry's relative lack of enthusiasm at
>Hermione's crusade. Don't most of us agree that there are injustices that
>need correcting, and yet when offered an opportunity to take an aggressive
>stance on the issue, we simply beg other pressing concerns and back out?
>Perhaps we are just relunctant to commit ourselves on the issue, or stand
>up and take a relatively extreme position compared to that of others? Or
>maybe it's just me ...
>
>Samaporn
You're quite right in what you say (apart from its being just you, of course
:) ) but I don't recall Harry even making the kind of feeble excuses we all
make in such situations. My considered opinion is, he pays more attention
to whether the house-elves he meets are happy, than to abstract arguments
about rights and justice - and, with the obvious exception of Winky, for
quite different reasons, they do seem happy at Hogwarts. I just don't think
he's making the connection at this stage. And then Ron - his main source of
information on the wizarding world - is unenthusiastic, even hostile to the
idea that the elves *as a group* need liberating. I think Hermione has
always shown more grasp of abstract ideas than either of the boys - she's
the one who reminds them *why* there are rules, when they are concerned only
with the restrictions they impose.
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