[HPforGrownups] re: A Muggle House / Wizarding Age of Majority

[Amanda]

No: HPFGUIDX 37111

Catlady (I think it was catlady) asserted:

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From: "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at wicca.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 11:40 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] re: A Muggle House / Wizarding Age of Majority


> 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.

This seems, on the face of it, to not necessarily be true. There are loads
of big old manors and castles and places like that in the Muggle world; I've
seen pictures of them and I've stood in a few in Poland.

> 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.

Upon what evidence do you base this assertion? I'm really curious about
this.

--Amanda