[HPforGrownups] Re: House Elves, namely Winky

[Morag Traynor]

No: HPFGUIDX 16835

Yeah, but he sure paid the price didn't he?   Crouch jr tonelessly relates:  
"I killed my father[...]When everyone was gone, I Transfigured my father's 
body.  He became a bone...I buried it[...]"  Whereas I can't help seeing 
Voldemort as a slightly camp figure, with his hackneyed world-domination 
plans (what I gather is referred to as OES, or Evil Overlord Syndrome), I 
found this passage had a bleak, true horror about it.  And Winky's grief 
makes her, as someone (apologies for lack of credit) rightly said, the most 
tragic character in the book.


>From: meboriqua at aol.com
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: House Elves, namely Winky
>Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:42:25 -0000
>
>   One reason Crouch fires her
> > is that he has to go along with the pretense that she cast the Dark
> > Mark, and also get her out of the way before Amos asks her
> > any more difficult questions.
> >
> > Amy Z
> >
>
>
>Thanks, Amy!  Yes, that's a perfect example of how Crouch treated his
>faithful Winky.  I also thought it was pretty awful to fire her
>(knowing how humiliating it is for a house elf to 'get sacked') in
>front of a group of witches and wizards.  What a bad boss!  He didn't
>even care when Amos Diggory called her "Elf!" the way he did.  I get
>angry when my students tell when they've been treated badly at their
>jobs or at home...  shame on Crouch!
>
>-
>

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