Kreacher - workable solutions?

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 129030


> bboyminn:
> 
> I wasn't suggesting that it was 'OK', I was suggesting that it was 
a
> necessary evil. Kreacher is a dangerous, deadly, unstable,
> unpredictable creature. Further, he is spiteful, vengeful, 
disloyal,
> and malignant. 

a_svirn:


Except that he IS loyal, just not to Sirius. From Kreacher's point 
of view it is Sirius who's betrayed his Blood and abjured his 
rightful inheritance. Kreacher on the contrary is loyal to the House 
of Black to a fault and against all odds. Odds being his formal 
enslavement to the last Black. He certainly didn't "agree" to serve 
Sirius or pledge him his loyalty. 

> bboyminn:
 
> I don't think giving him a Christmas blanket is going to quite be
> enough, Remember he got the blanket at Christmas and betrayed 
Sirius 6
> month later, and appeared to do so with great glee. 

a_svirn:

Well, the blanket wasn't actually from Sirius, was it? As far as 
Sirius was concerned the best way Kreacher could have served him was 
to die quietly in the attic. And I must say I find his attitude much 
more honourable than Hermione's hypocrisy. 

> bboyminn:
> 
> Yes, but there is a difference between a confessed traitor who must
> face field justice in war time, and suspected DE's; even when you
> suspect the DE's with an extremely high degree of certainty.

a_svirn:

All DE we know about are confirmed, not suspected. In fact some of 
them have even been convicted already. Kreacher on the other hand 
never betrayed anyone, because he never pretended to be loyal to 
Sirius and the Order. Quite the reverse in fact. It was Sirius's own 
folly that he underestimated Kreacher as an adversary. 

a_svirn