Winky/Bellatrix parallel?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 146079

Okay, I admit this sounds crazy, but I'm rereading GoF and I was
struck by the following incomplete remark from the
butterbeer-saturated Winky:

"Master is--*hic*--trusting Winky with--*hic*--the most important--
*hic*--the most secret--" (Am. ed. 537).

Compare Bellatrix's unfinished remark to Snape in "Spinner's End"
regarding the man, er, whatever he is, that she considers to be *her*
master:

"The Dark Lord has, in the past, entrusted me with his most
precious--" (HBP Am. ed. 29).

Winky (who has drunk six bottles of butterbeer) is defending herself
from the implication (Hermione's of course) that her duties to Mr.
Crouch consisted mostly of house work. We know in hindsight that they
consisted primarily of taking care of Barty Jr. (and keeping his
existence a secret). Bellatrix (who has had a glass or two of wine, if
it matters) is defending herself against Snape's implication (through
a question spoken in a voice "delicately inflected to suggest
disbelief") that LV no longer trusts her after the fiasco at the MoM.

Maybe I'm just obsessed with "Spinner's End," but the similarity of
the wording struck me as interesting. Assuming that the wording is
deliberately parallel, maybe the point is only the fanatical devotion
of a female servant to a merciless and tyrannical master who has more
or less discarded her (fired her, in Winky's case; stopped trusting
her in Bellatrix's). But neither Bellatrix nor Winky finishes the
sentence. We discover near the end of GoF what Winky's secret duty
was. I'm almost certain that we'll find out Bellatrix's in Book 7
(I've already suggested that it might be hiding the locket Horcrux.)

Does anyone besides me think there might be a deliberate parallel here
like the "hatred and revulsion" parallel between Snape and Harry in
HBP? I realize that we're dealing with two different books set two
years apart and that Winky is a devoted house-elf born into slavery,
not a Death Eater who chose to follow a Dark Lord, but the similarity
still seems striking. And she did know, probably, why young Barty had
been sent to Azkaban, yet she remained loyal both to him and to his
unloving father.

Thoughts, anybody? Or am I seeing parallelsls where none is intended?

Carol, who just realized that her brother-in-law has the same birthday
as Severus Snape

Carol, trying to talk about something besides Snape