Question about House Elves (was: Wizard supremacy)

[tonihollifield]

No: HPFGUIDX 125789



Tammy Wrote:  
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> ...how did house elves end up as slaves? House
> elves seems to have powers that are different enough and in some 
ways
> more powerful than wizards and witches, yet they are still working 
as
> slaves.  

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I've been following the ongoing discussing regarding house elves for 
the past week or so, and a question occurred to me when I read the 
above.  

I remember reading in FB (which I'm sorry, I don't have with 
me, so I can't quote), that there was a least one magical creature 
that was created by wizards.  Isn't it possible that the house elf is 
another one of these creatures?  In that case, the wizarding world 
would not have enslaved another "race" of being, but would have 
created a creature to serve its needs.  While I wouldn't defend the 
practice of creating another living creature (beast/being, whatever) 
to serve wizard-kind, I can see a powerful, wealthy, pure-blood 
family creating a creature such as a house-elf so they wouldn't have 
to take care of the day-to-day operations of a large estate, 
especially if it occurred a thousand years ago, say at the time of 
the founding of Hogwarts. The house-elves could have been given the 
powers they have (those that we've seen Dobby demonstrate, and Winky 
and Crouch, Jr. speak of) in order to make them more efficient 
workers, and they would have been bound to the house (or the family, 
if that's how it works) to keep the operation of the estate or manor 
running smoothly.  Once created, the house elves could have 
reproduced from there. 

Obviously, there's no canon to support this, but I don't remember any 
canon contradicting it either.  

Any thoughts?

Toni