[HPforGrownups] HP goes PC?

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 16842

Samaporn Teeravechyan wrote:

> I'm not American and I couldn't care less about PC-ness or unPC-ness,
> but I feel very strongly about the idea that any other living creature
> should be in a state of natural servitude to humans. A different way
> of wording it would be to say that such an arrangement would be
> absolutely unnatural ... perhaps if house elves were created by
> wizards of ages past to serve them, I could live with the idea.

Has no one else thought that the house elf/human relationship might be a
symbiotic one? Such things are totally natural, occurring all over
everywhere, where two different species have evolved to operate together
(clown fish and anemone spring to mind, but there's scads of others).
The house elves don't exactly run off at the mouth about what they get
out of it, but that whole "keeping the secrets" thing hints that there's
lots more to the relationship than we know.

And even if wizards are exclusively served, and elves are exclusively
the servers, if this is indeed a symbiotic relationship of the sort you
see in nature, the elves still would need the wizards, as part of the
way they exist and survive. Take a poor oppressed clown fish away from
his anemone, where he's forced to stay, and liberate him, and the odds
are he'll get munched pretty damn fast.

--Amanda, feeling devil's advocatish today


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