Houseelves loyalty WAS: Re: JKR site update WOMBAT part 2

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 159507

> 
> Kimberly here:
> This is where I think the allegiance to the house comes in.  If
Kreacher wasn't
> bound to the house but the family, then he would have passed on to
the next
> blood line in the Black family, not the next owner of the house.  
It seems the
> ownership of the house takes precedant over the family.   Whomever owns
> the house, gets Kreacher rather than whomever is next on the bloodline.
>   It's like splitting a hair, it is a very fine line I believe.

Finwitch:

Well, yes. The house. Like the genie of the lamp, I suppose, having to
obey whatever the lamp's current owner said...

So evenly Kreacher must obey the owner of the house. Their *house*-
loyalty going to the depth of forming a bond. Clothes are so horrible,
because unlike towels, pillowcases etc. they're not a house-hold item
--  They sends out of the House.

I don't know how Dobby managed to leave unless the House he serves is
NOT Malfoy Manor. Maybe he WAS a Potter elf, and since the house was
destroyed, he's not bound by magic but trough his own choice - to
Potters, namely Harry.

You know, they come with 'old houses,' .. how did the bond begin? Do
houses, upon aging enough, automatically generate an elf? If that were
the case...

Finwitch