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

[Katherine Coble]

No: HPFGUIDX 129603


On May 27, 2005, at 3:08 PM, a_svirn wrote:

> --- 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
>

K:  But we should all be servants to our fellow human beings.  
Demonized though the concept has become.   I understand that Laura is 
using a very arcane definition of "servant", but one which finds itself 
expressed throughout Judeo-Christian literature.


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