[HPforGrownups] Re: Dobby wants paying

Sat Sep 29 13:44:49 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 26879

--- dfrankiswork at netscape.net wrote:

> What do we make of the fact that Dumbledore goes
> along with Dobby's 
> wish to be paid?

    That he is a good man willing to meet any
reasonable terms. The fact that Dobby wants paying may
be untraditional but that doesn't make it wrong. If
that is his wish why not fall in with it?

> And, IMO very significant, what do we make of Arthur
> Weasley's 
> comment to Hermione that he agrees with her, it's
> just a bad time to 
> discuss it?

    He disapproves of the way Diggory and Crouch Sr.
were treating Winky. This does not necessarily mean he
is opposed to wizards having House elves just that he
thinks they deserve some courtesy and consideration.

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