[HPforGrownups] Re: House elves

[Morag Traynor]

No: HPFGUIDX 17024

Amy wrote:
<snip positive response, for which, thanks>


>I also think it's important to sort out the "are house-elves unhappy"
>issue from the "is Hermione going about this the right way" issue.  I
>haven't heard anyone here wholeheartedly endorse Hermione's approach
>to social change--she's naive and headstrong and unintentionally
>patronizing--but every cause has its naive activists.  The cause may
>still be just, and I'm standing by this one.  Here are my two
>Sickles--sign me up!

Agree.  I love Hermione for caring about the house-elves, even if she is 
wrong (and I don't think she is).

>No need to take out the best line:  "...treated like vermin, sir!  Of
>course, Dobby is still treated like that, sir."  Every reform movement
>needs a sense of humor.  "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of
>your revolution" (Emma Goldman).
Agree with you and Emma - just wanted to focus on the wider issue :)

Sudden thought - who does the laundry?
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