House-Elf Justice (was Re: Kreacher - workable solutions?)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 129602

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Laura Ingalls Huntley 
<lhuntley at f...> wrote:
> a_svirn:
> > And I must say I cannot
> > agree with your unconventional construction of the 
word "servant".
> > Neither would Dobby, by the way – he calls himself an "employee".
> 
> Unconventional construction?  I hardly think the definition of the 
word 
> itself could be called "unconventional".  There is a *huge* 
difference 
> between being a slave and being a servant, the most important of 
which 
> is that a servant is *free*.  I agree that the idea of serving 
others 
> as a career has been demonized by Western culture, but the fact 
remains 
> that a servant is by no means a slave.
> 
> Don't make me go get a dictionary. ^_~
> 
> Laura
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/laurahuntley


I do claim that saying: "to be a servant is actually to be of help 
or of service to someone in need" is unconventional. I defy you to 
find such a meaning in any dictionary. 

a_svirn