Freedom for House-Elves (Was: Kreacher the Plot Device Elf)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 162071

> Alla:
> 
> I have a very bad suspicion that JKR means us to agree with 
Dumbledore 
> ( that Kreacher needs to be pitied, that he was mistreated by 
wizards, 
> etc,etc), but if it is so - the lesson to me falls oh so very flat, 
so 
> very on deaf ears.

a_svirn:
I, for one, do wholeheartedly agree with Dumbledore in this instance. 
(Almost unprecedented for me, really). Kreacher didn't ask to be 
owned. He most emphatically did not ask to be owned by Sirius. He 
rebelled, and managed to destroy his oppressor. I say, good for him. 
Bad for Harry, of course.   

> Alla:
> I mean Harry is expected to be responsible for bastard who is 
> complicit in the death of his godfather and that bastard needs to 
be 
> pitied?

a_svirn:
Well, Kreacher didn't ask Harry to be responsible for him, did he? 
Harry chose to assume that responsibility himself. I think it was a 
kind of test for Harry, and one he failed.