Your favorite house elf?

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 145069

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Corey Overton" <coverton at n...> 
wrote:
>
> Hi List members, Corey again. I just want to know who might some 
> people on the list think is their favorite house elf? For me it 
> was Winky. I felt kind of sorry for her and if it wasn't for 
> Winky, Hermione would not have started spew. 

Kreacher is definitely my favorite elf. Even if he isn't fully 
original - he's clearly got a more than a little Gollum in his family 
tree - as far as plot dynamics, I prefer his passive-aggressive 
mutterings to Winky's cry-myself-a-river self-pity and Dobby's 
excessive eager-beaverness.  Plus the fact that Harry is now his owner 
deliciously subverts the Amnesty-International-WeAreTheWorld-feel-good 
(about myself) liberalism which assumes only evil folk partake in 
ownership of sentient beings. I assume JKR feels the same toward 
Kreacher - how else could he escape penalty for his active complicity 
in his master Sirius' death? 

  - CMC