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> > Alla:
By the way, that is not the reason why I am making 
allowances  as to  Sirius' treatment of Kreacher. 

 Kreacher is a horrible being and really, Sirius treated him 
 MUCH  better than Malfoys treated Dobby, IMO.<

> > Pippin:
> > Agreed Kreacher is horrible. <snip reasons>Gee,  parallels 
between Kreacher and Harry stack up like cordwood, don't they? 
And you've got to admit, Snape treats Harry a lot better than the 
Dursleys do (not that it's saying much.) This list has burned a lot 
of bandwidth  discussing whether Snape would betray Harry. 
Maybe we should  be asking whether Harry will betray Snape?


Alla:
> Sorry, Pippin, but no, "little  and wierd, doesn't take care of 
> himself, etc.,etc." are not my definitions of the horrible being, 
> even jokingly.
> 
> 
> It is more like that - he is ready and willing to betray Sirius at 
the first possibility, because he adores his dead mistress, who 
could  not stand Sirius, even though Sirius was her son.<

Pippin:
::blinks:: But Sirius didn't think Kreacher was  going to betray 
him. In fact, he believed that as long as Kreacher was bound as 
his House Elf, Kreacher *couldn't* betray him...that was why he 
refused to set Kreacher free. Why make allowances for Sirius on 
account of something that he didn't think was even possible?


 It seems to me Kreacher had as much right to admire Mrs. 
Black, who did turn against Voldemort in the end, as Harry does 
to admire his father, who also did some contemptible things 
before he died a hero's death. And don't forget, at the time Mrs. 
Black died,  ten years before OOP, Sirius was in Azkaban as a 
supporter of the fiend who'd had his brother killed. She never 
lived to learn Sirius was innocent.

Pippin