[HPforGrownups] Re: Kreacher the Plot Device Elf

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 161822

sistermagpie wrote:
> Looks like a cigar to me. Dobby's not hard-working or dutiful to the 
> Malfoys when he actively works against them. When he cleans up the 
> Common Room he's actively working against the house-elves. They're 
> trying to make a point and he's shutting up their protest. So hard-
> working, sure, but to his personal interests. The other elves aren't 
> less hard-working, they're reacting to Hermione's insult, which she 
> doesn't know about thanks to Dobby. I wasn't saying Dobby was lazy, 
> but that he wasn't dutiful or loyal to his Malfoy masters. And he 
> doesn't always work with the house elves either.

Bart:
I haven't been around in a while, and I would be surprised if nobody has 
brought this up yet, but, after all, Dobbie is insane. The fact that he 
seems to be moving from house elf psychology to human psychology does 
not change the fact that it is a highly alien one.

Kreacher is bound to obey Sirius (and Harry), but he is loyal to the 
Black family, which Sirius abandoned, and Harry isn't even a part of.

	Bart