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

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No: HPFGUIDX 162095

Carol:
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Not all rules, laws, 
> and
> > orders are made to be broken. 
> 
> a_svirn:
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> Slavery is, though. Should be broken, must be broken. If Kreacher 
> manages to do so – well, good for him.
>

Alla:

I agree with you a_svirn, with every word of your post in fact, well 
except my feelings towards Kreacher of course, but I would prefer him 
to not be anybody's slave either.

But when Kreacher is freed and more or less on equal footing with 
Harry, he is fair game in my opinion as in answering for his deeds.

It is funny when I think about house elves. As I said I totally think 
that their situation is slavery, etc, but I just cannot bring myself 
to empathize fully with them as characters. Strange.

I mean on the intellectual level I know what I want to happen, etc, 
but on the emotional, I am just not touched fully.

I mean, I understand why I feel that way about Kreacher, but I also 
find Dobby to be the most annoying character **ever**. I suppose I 
pity Winky the most, but it is still not much.

Oh, and I do not think that this has anything to do with the fact 
that they are non-human race, frankly.

I think I mentioned it in the past that I totally sympathise with 
werewolves ( well that is understandable to me - who would not feel 
for Remus as representative of them), I find centaurs to be totally 
cool and I so want to know more about goblins and find their 
rebellions mentioned in passing to be much more sympathetic than 
house elves plight.

I can find no other reasons that JKR not making me feel for these 
three elves as characters.

Alla.