An etymology for Kreacher

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No: HPFGUIDX 107315

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "theadimail" <theadimail at y...>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I don't know whether anybody has suggested this elsewhere, because 
> I do not keep up with the etymology lists on the net, but the 
> etymology for Kreacher seems to me this. Kreacher, seems to be merely 
> a different spelling for the word 'creature'. Since Kreacher is 
> supposed to be what he is because of the (can we call it that?)racial 
> discrimination shown towards him by the other wizards. 
> Well, 'creature' seems to be the word that is used when you do not 
> look upon others as well as yourself, when this class of being is 
> upposed to be somehow lower than yours. When you hate somebody for 
> belonging to a certain class, they become 'creatures', don't they?

All true.  To me it's also reminiscent of the Addams Family, unless
I'm getting mixed up.  They live in a similarly spooky, magic-filled
house, and I thought they had a Creature, but I just looked it up, and
instead they have Thing, the disembodied hand.  It's the same kind of
name, though, and can also imply discrimination.  Anyway, I'd almost
expect to find a sinister Creature in a house like that.

Eleanor