house-elf without a house

[Maria Elmvang]

No: HPFGUIDX 143825

Allie wrote:
> Maybe I'm being too literal on my re-read of CoS.  Dobby
> says, "Dobby is a house-elf - bound to serve one house and 
> one family forever..."  Maybe it should read, "bound to 
> serve one House (capital) and one family..."  Later on, 
> Fred/George says, "Mum's always wishing we had a house-elf 
> to do the ironing....  House-elves come with big old manors
> and castles and places like that."  To me, that indicates 
> literally, the house itself.


Maria:
I read that more like somebody would say "Butlers come with big 
old manors etc...." That's not to mean the butler stays with the 
house if the family moves, but rather that a butler would be 
pretty out-of-place in a smaller house.

Maria (who just had to add her two knuts)

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I believe in God like I believe in the sun
not because I see it, but by it
I see everything else
        --- C.S. Lewis