[HPforGrownups] Re: Freedom for House-Elves

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 161870

>
> > Carol responds:
> > ... I agree with Magpie that House-Elf slavery, which
> > ... is voluntary servitude ..., doesn't really parallel
> > human slavery, pre-Civil War American or otherwise.
> >
>
> bboyminn:
>
> The forbidden 'DITTO'. House-elf servitude is very
> complex and, especially given how little of Elf/Human
> history we have, is very difficult to get a handle on.
> The best we can do is draw parallels to small aspects of
> it. But I don't think there is anything in human history
> that is truly analogous to it on a broad scale.


montims:

I've said it before, so apologies for being boring, but I still think it is
comparable to Apartheid in South Africa, except for the fact that the
"black" South Africans were very much in the majority.  Maybe Dobby will
become the Mandela icon that swings majority opinion towards liberation...


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