Winky thoughts......could possibly turn into OOP thougts

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 58057

Amanda writes:

> So I have no doubts whatsoever that she is the vengeful house-elf. 
> Dumbledore and Harry have caused the deaths of both Crouch men (or I 
> believe she will see it so), and given the way house-elves can move around 
> within and through the Hogwarts defenses, I think this could be a real 
> problem. I think only another elf will be able to protect against bad elf 
> magic, and Dobby may have a lot to do.
> 
Boy howdy.

After all, what kind of an examples of human behaviors and mentality has she 
got? We've got the oh-so-upright Crouch Sr. who talks the straight-and-narrow 
talk publicly and uses Unforgivable curses on his family to keep them in 
line. And the we have Crouch Jr. who has to be kept under Imperius in order 
not to murder his father in his sleep and be off to find his Master. And of 
course *nothing* was ever *their* fault...

For the record, I think the publishers' quote was "venimous and disgruntled" 
rather than "vengeful". One can hardly blame her given the way the humans she 
most cared about treated her, but having a House Elf going postal in the 
Hogwarts kitchen sounds a bit, er, *disconcerting*.

(Maybe we now find out something about the magical properties of a certain 
room mentioned in book 4 that "Harry hasn't discovered yet".)

-JOdel


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