House elves

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 58103

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Andrea <ra_1013 at y...> wrote:
> ...edited previous post... 
> 
> 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.  This implies that they ARE in some way bound to 
> the structure, ...
> 
> 
> Andrea

bboy_mn:

House: also refers to 1b.) A household or family. (American Heritage
third edition copyright 1994)

What George says is, "House-elves come with big old manors and castles
and places like that...". But those are also the kind of places where
you find sevants in general. So I don't know if we can take this quote
literally. I really think he is saying that only rich people are
likely to have servants/elves. It's not as easy as having gnomes or
ghouls in the attic.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn