Dobby, Winky and the Office for House-Elf Relocation

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18494

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Milz" <absinthe at m...> wrote:
> I was reading Newt Scamander's biography in "Fantastic Beasts". It 
> mentioned that he worked in the Office for House-Elf Relocation in 
> the Department for Regulation and Control of Magical Beasts. 
> 
> If there is such an office in the Ministry, why didn't Dobby go 
there 
> after he was freed by Lucius Malfoy? Wouldn't the Office have 
> relocated Dobby? Also, Wicky was the house-elf of Crouch Sr., 
> wouldn't she have gone to the Office for House-Elf Relocation (OHER)
> after she was freed? Or is the OHER a dubious Ministry Office 
> that "relocates" House-Elves by enslaving them to other families?
> 
> :-)Milz

I noticed this, too, and wondered what it is that the OHER does.  Not 
much, apparently, seeing as how neither Dobby nor Winky seems to know 
they exist.  Maybe the office has been disbanded since Scamander's 
time, which was after all many years ago.  It does says in FB that 
Scamander was extremely bored with that job, maybe there was so 
little to do that the MOM decided the OHER wasn't really needed?  Or 
maybe the OHER refused to help Dobby because he was brash enough to 
"want paying" and Winky was too embarassed to go there?  Or maybe JKR 
just did't think of the OHER until after she had written GoF and 
wrote it into FB without thinking about the Dobby/Winky issue, once 
again underestimating the obsession level of her fans?


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  "Them!" said Stan contemptuously.  "Don't listen properly, do 
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