Elf Beheading?

dumbledore11214 dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com
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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