Things better for House Elves? (was Re: Lucius Malfoy's

[tyler maroney]

No: HPFGUIDX 126804

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? 


"deborahhbbrd":
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.

Tyler again:
Nasty,  poor,  and brutish,  yes.  Short?  I'm not so
sure.  I think even the DEs would have enough sense to
realize you don't want to kill your servant (at least
not until you get a replacement) or else you'll be
stuck doing the cooking,  cleaning,  etc.  I see
nothing to in canon to suggest that HEs were being
killed for sport the way muggles were.  I think they
were just treated like dirt.  Which is why I have a
difficult time understanding whats different.

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