Another Flint? (Was: When?)

[kjirstem]

No: HPFGUIDX 118890


> charme:
> 
> Let's see how many ways the youngest Creevy could have "snuck" out
to >Hogsmeade if in fact only 3rd year students and above are allowed
to go:
> 
> 1) Young Master Creevy could be a natural animagus or metamorphagus
> 2) Dennis and his brother have developed some advanced magic like
>apparation on their own and are poised to be the next "Weasley" twins
>for that generation
> 3) The Creevy brothers could already have found their own ways out
>of Hogwarts (Dennis is TINY - no telling what he could fit through)
> 4) Could be the Fred & George scenario above, too :)


kjirstem:

I've wondered if the Creeveys were part house-elf since they are
always described as being very small.  They seem to have been raised
in a muggle household and we're told that their father is a milkman. 
(In Colin's first conversation with Harry, CS ch 6.) Still, both of
them turning up at Hogwarts seems unusual for a Muggle family.  It
might make more sense if their mother is a house-elf. 

JKR says in her website FAQ: "House-elves are different from wizards;
they have their own brand of magic, and the ability to appear and
disappear within the castle is necessary to them..."

My thinking (which is seeming fuzzier the longer I go on here) was
that house-elves may learn how to apparate (or whatever it is that
they do) at an earlier age, perhaps it is easier for them, as well as
being possible at Hogwarts.  Perhaps Dennis' mother taught him how to
do this already...

Hmmm.  Well, it's strained.  

kjirstem - who thinks a free house-elf becoming a house wife makes a
weird kind of sense.