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

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 129636

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Katherine Coble <k.coble at c...> 
wrote:
> 
> On May 27, 2005, at 3:58 PM, a_svirn wrote:
> 
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Katherine Coble 
<k.coble at c...>
> >  wrote:
> >
> >  >
> >  > 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.
> >  >
> >
> >  Could you perhaps elaborate a bit? Was there an eleventh 
commandment
> >  added to the Decalogue recently? "Thau shalt be of service to 
thy
> >  neighbor?" (Although servants are mentioned in the 10th aren't 
they?
> >  As a "*thing* that is thy neighbor's" (emphasis mine).
> >
> >  a_svirn
> >
> >
> >
> 
> K:  Well, first in the bibles themselves.....
> 
> How about the book of Phillippians, which discusses humility, 
chiefly 
> the humility of Christ?  Then there is the entire book of 
Philemon, 
> which concerns the slave Onesimus and how he is to be treated by 
his 
> master.    Or, perhaps looking for an even older reference, how 
about 
> Proverbs 31, where the virtuous woman is one who gets up early and 
> serves her household--including those that are in her employ.
> <snip>

a_svirn:
And where is the difference between these interpretations of the 
word `servant' and the one that, say, Lucius Malfoy favoured? I see 
nothing "arcane" in your examples. The same conventional meaning 
as `somebody who serves another, perfoming menial tasks'.