Harry's grief (was: Dumbledore the General)

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No: HPFGUIDX 124384


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "phoenixgod2000" <jmrazo at h...>
wrote:

> Phoenixgod2000:
> 
> Besides finding the Kreacher talk in amazingly bad taste, I thought 
> DD was wrong. He spoke about Kreacher being what other wizards *made 
> him* but in other books he made sure Harry realized that it was the 
> choices a person (or creature) makes which define them. 
> phoenixgod2000

Whiz:
 
I'm not so sure that isn't apples and oranges.  Did Kreacher have a
choice?  He was loyal to his family and his house and felt an
obligation to his dead mistress.  Whether he shared the views of the
Blacks or not is beside the point.  Kreacher is enslaved.

Now Dobby is interesting in that context.  I have to wonder if there
is someone in the Malfoy household who sent Dobby without the
knowledge of the others, thus his behavior is of being torn.  He can
say only so much, (what he's been told to say?) and punishes himself
for being there at all because if the other members of the family ever
knew ........  Yipes!

House elves are what wizards have made them.