OOP: Kreacher (was: A person is more than the worst thing they have done

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 63829

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Juliet" <lilpurplealdy at n...> 
wrote:
  
>Then there's the fact that for months, Kreacher was taking orders 
from Narcissa.>

Huh?  I must have definitely missed something.  Can you point me in 
the direction of where in OoP we are told that Narcissa gave Kreacher 
orders?

On another Kreacher note, I found it brilliant of JKR to give up yet 
another angle on House Elves.  Kreacher is horrible, but we pity him 
just the same.  He is a hate-filled nasty little creature, Kreacher 
is, but we are aware of the fact that his beloved Mistress was a 
hate-filled nasty person herself.  Kreacher says inexcusable things to 
the guests in the home he is supposed to take care of, yet he has been 
pretty much abandoned, living in an empty house for years, with no 
living creature to talk to, taking orders from a portrait...

Sirius wasn't any better or worse to Kreacher than Kreacher was to 
him.  If Sirius could have safely freed Kreacher, I think that is 
exactly what he would have done.

--jenny from ravenclaw, who thought the funniest line in OoP was when 
Sirius hoped Kreacher had crawled into the airing cupboard and died 
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