Society for the Practice of Elvish Warfare

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No: HPFGUIDX 79359

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "The Journalist" 
<journalisto at h...> wrote:
> Oh, those little house-elves. With their big floppy ears, and 
bulging eyes... Cute little things aren't they? 
> 
> BUT ARE THEY? Dobby and the other Hogwarts elves seem to pretty 
well-behaved creatures. They live happily in that Scottish castle, 
using their "powerful brand of magic" for cleaning and food 
preparation. They've been treated badly, especially during 
Voldemort's peak of power, so they should be feeling quite pleased to 
work under such a nice, forward-thinking man like Dumbledore. 
> 
> HOWEVER, isn't it rather probable that we will see the elves use 
their power for... Evil? They can apparate, they can blow grown 
wizards off their feet, etc. If elves are required by their honor to 
do as their masters desire, I suppose it would just be a matter of 
time before Voldemort gets a whole sack-full and orders them to pop 
on down to Hogsmeade with him and open fire on Hoggy-Warty-Hogwarts, 
eh?
> 
> -Dan, who thinks the Quibbler ROCKS...

Eyal replies:
Great thinking, never occured to me, but theoretically, sure, I can 
imagine an army of house-elves popping around and screaming and do 
whatever those elvish creatures are able of, terrorizing Hogwarts... 
but then again, I don't think it's going to be part of the plot.
See, Dumbledore so far has predicted every foe and potential enemy 
the good guys might come across from the Dark side -- that's why he 
sent Hagrid on his sacred mission to bring the giants to their side.
And he feels quite comfortable about the presence of the elves, you 
can see that by his giving them whatever they want -- freedom, that 
is, if they like it.
Or maybe house-elves are loyal to whatever master they have. In that 
case, Dumbledore himself has now an army of his own loyal house-
elves. The wildest extent would be to have a bloody battle among the 
forces of house-elves, good against evil, with popping and zapping 
and the whole deal.
Yep, if any army of elves happen to pop into Hogsmeade, Dumbledore's 
got right the army to face them. Do you know just how many of them 
are there around in Hogwarts??

Random thinking (seems to be popular around here),
Eyal