Hermione and the Ragged Trousered House-Elves

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No: HPFGUIDX 77148

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sylviablundell2001" <sylviablundell at a...> 
wrote:
> Hi Kneasey
> Just re-reading your post. You mention a relative speaking to 
> Tressell just after the book was published.  But Tressell never lived 
> to see his book published. He left the manuscript to his daughter and 
> it was some years after his death that the book was finally published 
> (in a much bowlderised form)  Perhaps your relative spoke to Kathleen 
> (the daughter) who was very much her father's confidante. I met her 
> when she was a very old lady, but still as sharp as a pin.

Really?
Huh! Unfortunately I can't put my uncle through the third degree, 
he died 40 years ago (in his late eighties), a die-hard socialist and
Trade Unionist to the end. Never knew him to lie, so he  either 
confused the time when the conversation took place, or he confused
Tressell with some-one else. However, he was  convinced about the
motivation behind the book. If it turns out he was having me on, I'll
have to go and shout at him through the veil.

To make this post valid, I'd better mention something on topic.
Do you see Hermione as a Karl Marx figure? She knows what's 
best for the Elves, absolutely convinced, but she ignores every-
thing that they and everyone else says. She is the font of all that
is right on this subject.
Exactly the way the old monster acted. Alll it needs is for her to
inherit some money and have a servant that she doesn't pay for
30 years or so.

Kneasy