[HPforGrownups] Re: Article

[GerRoJen at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 41231

ARTICLE (which highly annoyed me *too*): ***"Meals are served by servants in 
the Great Hall"***

ROSIE: ***No they aren't, otherwise everyone would know house elves worked at 
Hogwarts.***

PORPHYRIA: ***Yes they are. The house-elves make all the food in the kitchens 
and magically transport it (banish it I suppose) to the Dining Hall. Remember 
how the kitchens had the same four tables laid out just like the Dining Hall? 
I got the impression they set it all out in the same pattern and then 
magically moved it up one floor. Adams point that servants do the work at 
Hogwarts stands; that's exactly why Hermione got all upset about the use of 
elf labor at school.***

Nah, I am going to have to go with Rosie's assessment here.  There are no 
servants *in* the Great Hall.  This article's intent was to point out how 
posh Hogwarts seems to be.  A school for the uppercrust and so on.  Sit back 
and read the statement "Meals are served by servants in the Great Hall".  
That gives images of liveried waiters on beck and call to the students.  But 
indeed, the opposite is true.  No servants are in evidence in the Great Hall, 
more than likely so students do not become too stuck on the high life and 
begin ordering the servants around.  Like the Malfoy's obviously do at home.  


Cyra


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