Kreacher Sent to Hogwarts

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 134625

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, rayheuer3 at a... wrote:
>  
> Marianne writes:
>  
> >If he could be ordered to live at Hogwarts by new master Harry, 
why  
> >didn't it occur to anyone in OoP to send him to Hogwarts?  It 
would  
> >have removed him from Grimmauld Place and thus shut off whatever  
> >knowledge he might have gleaned from skulking around listening to 
and  
> >observing the various Order members who spent time there. 
> 
> 
>  
> House-elves are bound primarily to the house (thus the name), and  
> secondarily to the family.  They can certainly leave their houses 
for  periods, 
> especially to accompany the masters (note that in CoS, Chapter 
18,  Lucius Malfoy 
> brought Dobby with him to Dumbledore's office.
>  
> Sirius, IMHO, could not order Kracher to Hogwarts, but Harry, now 
the  master 
> of 12 GP, could order Kreacher to accompany him to  Hogwarts.  
Kreacher would 
> have to return to 12GP when Harry left  Hogwarts.

Marianne:

I'm not sure I buy this.  Sirius shouted "Get out!" at one point to 
Kreacher, who promptly left the house entirely and hightailed it to 
the Malfoys.  He was not accompanying Sirius anywhere. If Kreacher 
can interpret a non-specific order in such a way as to leave the 
house to which he is bound, I still don't see why the house's master 
can't tell the house-elf to go to a specific other location for some 
duration of time.