House Elves and Clothes

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 65192

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suggestions other than I need to stop obsessing over Harry Potter so 
much that I wonder about trivial things like this?>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says:
JKR says somewhere that the whole house-elf thing was her take on the 
folklore of the shoemakers' elves: you know, those little naked guys 
that work, work, work until the kindhearted shoemaker's wife makes 
them each a fine little suit of clothes. The little buggers then put 
on the clothes and run off laughing, never to return.
OK, I never understood that either; but maybe knowing it's not really 
Harry Potter mythology may help.
--JDR