Percy / Kreachur / Snape / Poison / Harry

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 180147

Catlady:
> Colebiancardi summarized chapter 10 in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/180052>
> 
> <<  Narcissa and Bellatrix were probably lovely to Kreacher and he did
> them a favor. >>
> 
> This has never quite worked for me. Why would Narcissa be kinder to
> Kreachur than she was to Dobby? Why would Bellatrix, who is Narcissa's
> sister who was raised with her, be any kinder to House Elves than
> Narcissa is?

Pippin:
Because Kreacher was not a  rebellious House Elf in the same sense
that Dobby was. Kreacher had no problems with his place in the WW,
only with his lawless master. 

Catlady:
 Bella doesn't seen able to dissemble. 

Pippin:
She talked her way out of Azkaban the first time, according to Sirius in GoF.
That's why she was at large and could attack the Longbottoms. She may
have lost some of her abilities in Azkaban of course, but I think she more
likely lost the motivation. 

Catlady:
> And why would the Black Family, which mounted House Elf heads on the
> wall, and lobbied to decriminalize Muggle-hunting, produce a loyal son
> with proper family pride, who was not only so kind to his House Elf as
> to give his own life to avenge a wrong done to the House Elf, but was
> also so naive as to be surprised that the Dark Lord had wronged a
> House Elf? He expected the Dark Lord to be kinder than the average wizard?

Pippin:
Sirius speaks of his brother as 'soft' and having an
idealized view of what his own family and Voldemort were like. 

Bizarre as it seems the Blacks could have regarded beheading their aged
House Elves as a kindness. We've seen that House Elves do not
lose the compulsion to serve when they become too weak or incapacitated
to carry out their orders. They, like the DE's, are doomed to a lifetime of
service or death. 

Pippin