[HPforGrownups] Re: House Elves' enslavement (long)

[Marita Jan]

No: HPFGUIDX 114144


--- demetra1225 <tzakis1225 at netzero.com> wrote:

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> 
> It seems to me that the HE's were introduced as a rather benign 
> group.  Dobby is the first HE we meet, and he comes across as more 
> ditzy than dangerous.  



I think we also have to remember that whatever magic HE's possess, the
mere threat of Dobby using it was enough to make Lucius turn tail and run
(figuratively speaking).  At the end of CS, Dobby casts a spell strong
enough to knock LM down the stairs. He tells LM "You shall go now....You
shall not touch Harry Potter," and then....

"Lucius Malfoy had no choice.."  Why?  Why did he "have no choice"? 
Dobby's just a house elf, right?  Why couldn't LM just tell Dobby to go
bang his head on the wall and stay out of it?  Did the fact that Dobby was
at that point free have anything to do with it?  Does being tied to a
home/family make the HE's magic weaker - or more controllable?

There has to be something we're not being told about HEs and what they can
and cannot do and the strength of their magic skills.  I'm in the group
that believes there will be a battle at Hogwarts and HEs will have a role
to play in defending it.  

MJ


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