[HPforGrownups] Re: House elves

[Melanie L Ellis]

No: HPFGUIDX 58106

On Sun, 18 May 2003 00:36:33 -0000 "darrin_burnett" <bard7696 at aol.com>
writes:
> 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. 
> > 
> > 
Darrin says:
> 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."

Even if the line is "come with", I would still read that as along the
same lines as "old Muggle manor houses come with butlers and maids".
Muggle butlers and maids are not by any means bound to the *house* in
which they serve, but instead to the family (not magically, but you know
what I mean) - which should, hopefully, always be rich enough to afford
that pretty manor house. 

(I guess I'll be the rotten basilisk egg, I'm not lookin' it up! LOL)


Melanie

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