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

[Katherine Coble]

No: HPFGUIDX 129638


On May 28, 2005, at 1:26 PM, finwitch wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Katherine Coble <k.coble at c...>
>  >
>  > Oh yeah, another example of servant leadership in Judeo Christian
>  > literature is the twofold example of Frodo Baggins and Samwise
>  Gamgee
>  > in LOTR.
>
>  Finwitch:
>
>  I'd say that Frodo's anger when Samwise offered to bear the ring for
>  him was a symptom of Frodo being under the ring's influence...
>
>  But of servant-leader... oh, indeed. I think one *obvious* example is
>  a comedic couple, Jeeves and Wooster, invented by P. G. Wodehouse.
>
>  It made it to TV-series, and is set in London.
>
>  Jeeves is the servant, doing all the housework (Wooster is helpless
>  in kitchen - can't even make tea when Jeeves has a day off, even when
>  he has a cooking book to help) - and each time the series begins with
>  some minor disagreement (about something new Wooster has gained that
>  Jeeves doesn't like) - in the end, the thing is gone, so Jeeves
>  wins... ALL the time.
>
>  Finwitch
>
>

EXCELLENT example!  (LOVE J&W---especially Hugh Laurie's portrayal of 
Jeeves....."Forty Seven Ginger Headed Sailors....."





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