[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP - House Elves and Clothes

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 65627

maidne wrote:
> 
> I also wondered about Hermione trying to give hats and things to the
> elves at Hogwarts.  Surely the students couldn't free the elves, they
> belong to the school or to Dumbledore or something.  I loved it when
> Harry saw Dobby and he was wearing all the hats and socks, and said
> that none of the other elves would clean Gryffindor tower any more --
> they were all offended by all the hidden clothes lying around the
> common room.  :D

I wondered, too, but I assume that Hermione got it right, and the elves
themselves would seem to concur.  Perhaps anyone in the household can
free an elf?