No sympathy for Kreacher

[Jim Ferer]

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Eggplant:"Now that Harry is popular again the Ministry will probably
do something to try to get back on Harry's good side, like giving a
posthumous pardon to Sirius Black. That will probably just increase
Harry's bitterness but it would make Sirius's Will a legal document
again. I'll bet he gave everything he had to Harry, and that includes
Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place. If so Harry would be Kreacher's new
master; but Kreacher was an accomplice in Sirius's murder. What should
Harry do to Kreacher? He can't send him to Azkaban, the jail has no
guards; he can't set him free, he knows too much. I think we all know
what Harry would be strongly tempted to do to Kreacher, and he may
even do it too."

You're probably right.

I think the end of OoP was an epiphany for Harry. He'll be much
smarter now, and he's likely to use Kreacher to feed disinformation to
the DE's - with Dumbledore's advice, of course.  
Nobody said Azkaban has no guards; they have no Dementors. It may be
impossible to hold a house elf in there anyway, since their powers of
teleportation aren't affected by Apparition barriers.

Harry won't kill Kreacher.

Eggplant: "By the way, I wonder if Kreacher mortally wounded Buckbeak,
the book doesn't say."

I think we would have heard that.  It would have been more effective
to give Buckbeack a painful injury requiring a lot of tending anyway.

Jim Ferer

P.S. Someone *has* to write a filk on this "No Sympathy for Kreacher"
thread to the tune of the Rolling Stones classic. "Please allow me to
introduce myself..."