Draco Malfoy and the Gothic Manor - Common Law

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 129031

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Constance Vigilance" 
<ConstanceVigilance at g...> wrote:
> > Constance Vigilance:
> > 
> > Kindness and generosity are powerful things in the House Elf 
> world. We
> > do not know how similar Kreachur might be to Dobby. But I do 
think
> > that Hermione's kindness and generosity will rebound in a good 
way
> > with Kreachur.
> > 
> > 
> > a_svirn:
> > 
> > Not likely, I am afraid. If we hate and despise someone we don't 
> > react in a positive way to their displays of kindness and 
> > generosity.
> 
> CV:
> 
> But I think that the Christmas blanket must have some feedback 
> somehow. Are you saying that it will make thins worse? If I 
> unexpectedly received a nice gift from somebody I thought I 
> disliked, I might at first think it was some kind of trick, but I 
> think over all, it might make me rethink my prejudice against the 
> giver. Meta-thinkingly speaking, I think JKR must have had some 
> reason for putting this event in the story. I still think Kreachur 
> will become an ally. Maybe not right away, but I think he will 
come 
> to Hermione's rescue at some time. We'll have to see who is right.

a_svirn:

Depends on the circumstances. If this somebody comes to your house 
uninvited and makes him- or herself at home, and then proceeds to 
destroy methodically everything you hold dear? And when you try and 
fail to stop them, they blithely explain your attempts of resistance 
by your supposed infirmity? And when your frustration and 
helplessness betrays you into fits of rage they chalk it on your 
hypothetical senility? And when the only mementoes of the happier 
days you've managed to salvage is found and destroyed they present 
you with a BLANCKET instead? Yes, I think it will make things worse. 
It will be the final humiliation. 

a_svirn

a_svirn