Hermione's Hats

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No: HPFGUIDX 78374

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Joe" <c4bchief at y...> wrote:
> <snip>
> But then how are the hats and socks that Hermione is knitting and 
> hiding around the Gryffindor 
> > common room supposed to free them, since once again the elves 
would 
> > only pick them up themselves?  

Now Me-

Because Hermione genuinely believes simply making the hats as gifts 
from her to the elves would set them free. What she's not aware of 
is that the hats have to be presented from master to elf, 
*personally*. And Dobby tells Harry in CoS the Malfoys are "careful 
not to pass Dobby even a sock, sir, for then he would be free to 
leave their house forever." So, since Harry's aware of this little 
fact, I don't know why he never mentioned it to Hermione. I guess he 
was too preoccupied...


(Dobby said the elves were annoyed 
> > and would not clean the Gryffindor common room, but was it just 
> > because someone was trying to trick them?  They weren't in any 
> > danger of being freed.)  

Me again-

I think they were more annoyed at what Hermione believed she was 
doing, because technically they weren't being tricked. It's not like 
she hid the hats inside other obects and *handed* them to the house 
elves, like Harry with Malfoy. Though the elves know Hermione's way 
of trying to free them would not work, they still don't like the 
idea being pressed upon them. Dobby is the only "Dobby-like" house 
elf we've come across in the series, all the others take great 
offense to even having the word freedom being said in front of them.


-Maritza (who doesn't believe Hermione's as well-rounded and 
wonderful as everyone tries to make her out to be, but still likes 
her)