Winky's dismissal and wands

[Ashfae]

No: HPFGUIDX 46916



> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:50:21 -0000
> From: Grey Wolf <greywolf1 at jazzfree.com>
> Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Serpents and Parseltongue
> 
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> You have raised the issue that Hogwarts is wrong at using elves, and 
> that Percy is likewise wrong at expecting total obedience. Let's tackle 
> them. Percy was right at expecting such thing since elves take pride in 
> being faithful to their masters. The problem with Winky is that she was 
> sacrified in the altar of politics (i.e. she had been obedient but her 
> master was going to acuse her of his own errors). If Percy had the one 

	Actually, that's not what happened. It looked to the world in
general that Winky was sacrificed because of politics and had done nothing
wrong herself, as Hermione so emphatically pointed out; but we didn't know
the whole story at that point. She *did* fail in her duties. She abandoned
Barty Jr.'s side at a crucial moment, which allowed him to escape and send
up the Dark Mark. I feel sorry for Winky, but she had made a serious error 
of judgement, and it can be argued that Crouch Senior was perfectly right 
to sack her. He had trusted her to look after his son, and she failed.

	As an additional point on the argument about non-human creatures 
and wands, many of them don't seem to need wands; house-elves, for 
example, have very powerful magic of their own, and don't need wands to 
implement it. The law disallowing nonhumans to use wands may not be as 
prejudiced as it first seems in that respect.


	Ashfae