A Muggle House / Wizarding Age of Majority

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 37073

Amy Z wrote:
> Finwitch wrote:
> > If Dobby was house-elf to the Potter-house that was *exploded* by
> > Evil Voldemort,
> To which Catlady responded:
> > Except that the house that was exploded was a Muggle house.
> ? explain?

If George's statement in CoS that "House-elves come with big old 
manors and castles and places like that" means that House Elves are 
bound to the house (building) rather than to the people, then a 
Muggle house would not have a House ELf bound to it. The house at 
Godric's Hollow in which James and Lily were living in hiding, until 
it was blown up as a result of Voldemort's attack on the Potters, was 
a Muggle house. Therefore, there was not a House Elf (Dobby in 
Finwitch's suggestion) bound to that house, to be made homeless by 
its destruction. 

Unc Mark wrote:

> BTW, What is Age of Consent for Wizard's? Could Harry write a will 
> leaving his gold to the Weasley's?

JKR has said several times that wizards come of age at 17. In GoF, 
when Dumbledore says that students who are under 17 cannot apply to
 be their school's Champion in Triwizard Tournament, he used the 
phrase 'underage students'.  

BTW, 'Age of Consent' is not quite the same thing as 'Age of 
Majority'.