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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 162072

> > 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:

Absolutely - Kreacher did not ask to be owned by Sirius. He seemed 
to have a lot of fondness for his previous masters though. But you 
get no argument from me in general, I understand what you are 
saying, I just cannot bring myself to feel one ounce of sympathy for 
Kreacher. Purely emotional reaction 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.
>

Alla:

Harry did not ask to be responsible for Kreacher either, like at 
all, as far as I can remember. :)

But I agree with you again in a sense that sending Kreacher to 
Hogwarts would have been a better choice.