[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Giants, Elves, Centaurs (was "Giants")

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 66444

 

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ugadawg02" <ugadawg02 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> >>>Hermione is trying to make elves something they are not. So is 
> Hagrid. 
> 

First sorry for the lousy attribution on this but I missed the original post
so I just clipped it from someone else's reply.

Yes - that's it exactly. It's what annoys me about SPEW. It's all very well
giving them a choice and educating them so they can make that choice, but
Hermione is trying to make the choice for them. By trying to force them to
be free she's simply exchanging one form of servitude for another. By trying
to free them against their will she's acting no differently than the people
like Malfoy who take advantage of the Elves' servitude in the first place.
They simply don't have the correct frame of reference in most cases to be
able to cope with being free - look how Winky reacted after all.

K