[HPforGrownups] Re: Weasley twins [very interesting idea]

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 83965

"jeffl1965" <jeffl1965 at hotpop.com> said:

>     Most interesting! I thought the Twins were just odd, but not
>*that* odd. :)

I think Kreacher is the one that's odd.

He's mentally ill, and kept ignorant in the way that only a willing slave 
mentality can be kept.  I don't think Kreacher even had a normal house-elf 
life.  I think he's even worse than Dobby was in that respect, because Dobby 
was perfectly healthy mentally -- that's why he had such a serious conflict 
between his normal instincts and the strictures upon his behavior as a 
house-elf (leading to him ironing his hands, shutting his ears in doors, 
etc.).

Someone whose mind is completely bent and whose entire attention (1)  is 
focussed on the personalities of equally warped Dark wizards like the rest 
of the Black family will think that *anything* they don't immediately 
understand or that doesn't fit into their limited frame of reference must be 
wrong and therefore to be hated.  The Weasleys aren't muggles nor 
muggle-born, but they willingly consort with muggles and muggle-borns.  
Therefore the Weasley family become "blood traitors," "blood traitor brats," 
and "unnatural."  Kreacher's limited experience may never have included 
twins (which aren't that common, and identical twins are even less so).  If 
he'd never seen it before and didn't understand it, it must be evil.

There's also the possibility that in the wizarding world people can in fact 
make themselves doppelgangers or homunculi, and that Kreacher thinks that's 
what is going on.  But personally, I think he's just compounded of equal 
parts of mental illness and spite.  Look at Sirius's mother, his chief role 
model ...


Janet Anderson
(1) He's certainly not focussing his attention on anything else.  Other 
house-elves, including Dobby both before and after his freedom, have work to 
do and do it.  Kreacher has lots of work he could be doing, but he hasn't so 
much as brushed aside a cobweb for years.

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