[HPforGrownups] Re: Elf Beheading?

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 102325

> I am ashamed to confess my ignorance but could you point me out to
> the mythology about Black Elves and beheadings? Sounds interesting.
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> Alla
>
 All scenes copied from OOP, Canadian Ediction.

chapter four:
Pressing her finger to her lips, she led him on tiptoe past a pair of long,
moth-eaten curtains, behind which Harry supposed there must be another door,
and after skirting a large umbrella stand that looked as though it had been
made from a severed troll's leg they started up the dark staircase, passing
a row of shrunken heads mounted on plaques on the wall. A closer look showed
Harry that the heads belonged to house-elves. All of them had the same
rather snout-like nose.

chapter six:
"... and dear Aunt Elladora ... she started the family tradition of
beheading house-elves when they got too old to carry tea trays ..."

Alina.