[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR site update WOMBAT part 2 - RESULTS- Question about answers

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 159195

Tonks:
Because I am questioning a couple of the answers from the person that got 
the Outstanding.

I mean. what do we know about Giants?  I thought that they were a bit 
nearsighted.  Are we sure that they are cannibals?  Where does it say either 
of those things?  I checked at Lexicon, but could not find anything 
definite.

Magpie:
Don't know if this was directed at me, but I got an Outstanding and I didn't 
think the answer to that question came from canon.  I can't remember which 
answer I picked, but I looked at it through the eyes of the kind of 
prejudice JKR writes about.  Oh wait--I remember what I picked.  I said the 
females were bigger than the males.  I figured we'd seen them led by a male 
in canon so they couldn't be led by females, and didn't remember anything 
about their being nearsighted.  But saying Hagrid and Grawp were cannibals 
sounded more the kind of unfair myths that grow up around "primitive" 
cultures without being true.

Tonks:
And are there no male veela?  I guess common sense would be that there must 
be to continue the race, but we never hear about them, do we?

Magpie:
We don't hear about them that I recall.  It seems like Veela were all women, 
but I didn't know whether JKR kept that bit of the mythology.  I think that 
might have been the question I answered by saying that it was false that 
freshwater merpeople were less fierce than saltwater ones, so I'm still not 
sure about male Veela.

Tonks:
what do we know about the feet of a hag? And the biggest concern for me is 
the one about House Elves.  I thought that they were bound to the family, 
not to the building.  Can't a master order an elf to kill himself?  IF the 
false answer has to be one of these and the second answer was give by 
someone who got an Outstanding, where does that leave us with house elves? 
How can their allegence be to the house?


Magpie:
I thought that House Elf allegiances were to families, not houses, and based 
whatever answer there was on that.  Clearly it's the person since Kreacher 
belongs to Harry whether he's at Grimmauld Place or Hogwarts.  So I don't 
think that's a problem--House Elves are definitely (imo) bound to the 
family, not the house. I think that was a question that said one of the 
things were false and I chose House Elves being loyal to the house rather 
than the family as being false.

-m