[HPforGrownups] Re: Houseelves loyalty

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 159584

>
> Elsa:
> However, we have seen that House Elves can be (unlike fixed real
> property) shifted from one location to another. A freed House Elf can
> shift to another location, for example. I believe if Harry takes up
> residence in a different house (he really doesn't seem keen on living
> at 12 GP) Kreacher would still be his. If he took Kreacher to his new
> home, I don't think ownership of Kreacher would transfer if he sold 12
> GP.


montims:
taking it further then - Harry has inherited 12 GP, as well as Kreacher.  Do
people believe that if he sells GP, Kreacher remains as "fixtures and
fittings" with the house, and belongs to the new owners?  I would have
expected him to stay with the family, notwithstanding all his ancestors'
heads...

For example, the Malfoys - up and coming family - I can't imagine every time
they move (if they do - my speculation, not canon) they have to leave behind
(or kill) their house elves and then reacquire others (with the new house or
at some kind of a market - where ARE house elves bought and sold?).  If I
think about it at all, I envisage house elves as something like the loyal
family dog, that sticks with its family through thick and thin, but is
sometimes abandoned by them beside some motorway, or given away to another
family...  Now the Weasley ghoul belongs to the Burrow, and will not follow
any of the Weasley members if they move.

I suspect this is another detail of JKR's, used for dramatic and comedic
purpose, but not intended to be investigated in such depth...


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