Elf Beheading?
dumbledore11214
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Tue Jun 22 00:49:09 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 102337
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Alina" <alina at d...> wrote:
> > I am ashamed to confess my ignorance but could you point me out to
> > the mythology about Black Elves and beheadings? Sounds
interesting.
> <snip>
> > 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.
Thanks, Alina. Talk about me rereading only my favourite pieces from
OoP. I absolutely forgot about this canon information. I thought that
was some other mythology unrelated to canon. :o)
Thanks again!
Alla
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