Things better for House Elves? (was Re: Lucius Malfoy's Ambition & Dobby's Motiv

[deborahhbbrd]

No: HPFGUIDX 126767


Tyler:
> Has anyone else wondered just how LV's fall improved
> the daily lives of British House Elves?  They would
> all still be tied to the same families who would still
> be able to treat them just as ruthlessly as before. 
> After all, as far as we know from canon, no one
> actually monitors HE living conditions, to make sure
> they're being treated properly.  So what's changed?  


House elves are non-human, right? Consider what their lives would 
have been like if the bad guys had won. Nasty, poor, brutish and 
very, very short. So a defeat for LV is a victory for them, even 
if it leaves their living conditions unchanged.

"deborahhbbrd"