Flitwick a goblin?

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 31510

Gwen wrote:


> > Folks,
> > 
> > Are you sure you aren't letting the film influence your 
impression of
> > Flitwick? 
>
 
Joanne continued:

>    I had pictured Flitwick just being a very small 
> person, not distorted and (frankly) a little goblin-looking; 
>nothing in the text 
> describes him as strange-looking.  


I someone accusing me of being influenced by the movie?  Why I 
never!  :-)

Seriously, in PS/SS, Flitwick is described as being "a tiny little 
wizard who had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk."  
When he came to Harry's name on the roster, he "gave an excited 
squeak and toppled out of sight."

PS/SS says the Gringotts goblin is about a "head shorter than Harry" 
with "a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard and, Harry noticed, 
very long fingers and feet."  

Winky is "a tiny creature", with "legs so short that they stuck out 
in front of [her] on the chair."  She has "bat-like ears."  

In GoF, Dobby hugs Harry around his middle, and has "large green 
tennis-ball shaped eyes."  He has a pencil-shaped nose, the batlike 
ears, and *very long fingers and feet*."

So . . . who knows?  Is there some shared ancestry between house 
elves and goblins?  Maybe, particularly considering JKR uses the 
exact same language to describe their very long fingers and feet.  
Perhaps the hundreds of years of freedom for goblins and enslavement 
for house elves has led the latter group to waste a bit.

Cindy (proposing that Flitwick is either 100% house-elf or half-
goblin/half-house elf)