[HPforGrownups] Re: House Elves

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 147545


On Friday, February 3, 2006, at 11:42 AM, sistermagpie wrote:
> Magpie:
>
> I basically agree with this, though I now feel compelled to just
> throw out that Kreacher himself may be a house elf but he is
> anything but servile.  He didn't want to do anything for Harry and
> expressed that his own wish would be to work for the Malfoys.  So
> there's a slight difference here.  Kreacher is a slave bound to obey
> Harry only because of ancient magic and because Harry is his
> property. 
>
> -m

kchuplis:

I also get the feeling that there is something about house elves we 
don't yet know. Also, on Harry's so called "bland" acceptance of 
Kreacher at the Dursley's, I was rereading that scene last night and 
Harry is described as viewing Kreacher with words like "repugnant" and 
"aghast"; so even if he wasn't screaming bloody murder about Kreacher 
being there, I wouldn't exactly call his response "bland". I would say 
that Harry and Kreacher have about the same opinion of each other.  
However, the only alternative would be to kill Kreacher and can we 
really see Harry doing this? (This in reference to comments up thread.)