House elves

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 58079

Andrea: 
> 
> Remember in COS when the Weasley boys are explaining house elves to 
Harry,
> they say something about "they come with old manor houses" or something
> like that. (Sorry, in the middle of a move and all my books are packed
> up!)  This implies that they ARE in some way bound to the structure, or at
> least to the *owners* of the structure.  Perhaps if the Crouches had
> moved, they'd had to have either left Winky behind for the new owners or
> made special arrangements with them to take her with them. 
> 
> 

I'm at work and away from the books, but I seem to remember the line being 
more along the lines of "found in" rather than "come with."

But another point.  If the loyalty is not so much to the family, then why couldn't 
Winky just give her loyalty to someone else? 

And who are the house elves at Hogwarts bound to? Is it D-Dore? Is there a 
person in charge of the kitchens we haven't met yet?

Last one to check the CoS reference is a rotten basilisk egg!

Darrin
-- And yes, Rotten Basilisk Eggs would be a GREAT band name.