SHIP: H, H, R, and SPEW

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 11936



Penny wrote:

>They seem to me to disagree fairly often.  For 
>example -- the giants and the house elves.  Ron has a typical "grew 
>up in the wizarding world" view of house elves & the giants. 

This does seem like a major disagreement to me, probably because my 
heart is completely with Hermione.  I just love that she's developed a 
social conscience, clumsy and self-righteous though it is.   When she 
pesters people with "do you know that your beds are made by slaves?!" 
I want to cheer.  She's doing what I sometimes want to do, but don't 
because I don't actually have the guts (or you could charitably say, 
the social-gracelessness) to walk up to people and say "Do you by 
any chance know how many foxes died by anal electrocution to make that 
coat?" or "Those jeans were sewn by a 12-year-old girl in a 
maquiladora, weren't they?  Hmmm..."

But if you ask me, in GF Harry is as bad as Ron on the subject of 
house-elves--maybe he seems even less sympathetic to me because we 
know what's in his head, and there is NO twinge of guilt or "maybe 
Hermione has a point" there, at least as far as we've been told.  He 
just doesn't get it at all, something that disappoints me after all 
his sympathy for Dobby in CS.

So, H/H ten years later (screen waves and blurs into . . . )

Harry and Hermione in the kitchen.  Harry reading the Daily Prophet 
and scarfing down toast.  Hermione in a snit, slamming dishes in the 
sink.

Harry (sighs): Okay, what's up?

Hermione: Nothing.  Nothing.  There are NO dishes piled up from last 
night's dinner that was cooked by me so that SOMEONE ELSE was supposed 
to wash up.

Harry: Honey, I promise, I'll get to them after breakfast.  (looking 
at watch)  Uh, I mean after work.  Look, you know I was really tired 
last night.

Hermione: Oh, and I wasn't.  Well, maybe I don't spend my day SAVING 
THE WORLD FROM EVIL but I do have responsibilities, you know!  Believe 
it or not, I have other things to do besides washing the dishes!

Harry: Hermione, we've been over this a hundred times.  I'm a busy 
person, you're a busy person.  We don't have a hell of a lot of time 
for housework.  Why don't we get a house-elf?  

Hermione: And just how are we going to afford to pay this house-elf?

Harry (knowing he shouldn't say this, but): We don't have to pay them. 
 They'll work for free.  They'd consider it an honor.

Hermione: I can't believe you are seriously suggesting that we get a 
SLAVE.  That's what you're talking about, you know, slave labor in our 
house!  Jesus, Harry, sometimes I feel like you don't know me at 
all...

(mercifully fade to black)

Amy Z

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Many people said he hadn't noticed he was dead.
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