[HPforGrownups] Elves and freedom

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 170302

montims:

love of life?  Until the prevailing attitude is changed, elves cannot live
free.  If it hadn't been for DD rescuing him by offering him paid employment
Dobby would have starved to death, despised by most of the WW.




Sherry now:
Snipping your example to give one of my own.

I totally agree with all you said.  In the days of slavery here in the US,
slave owners often said something I've heard characters in the books say
several times.  "They're happy this way."  Those statements always make me
slightly sick to my stomach when I read it, even from characters I love,
such as Ron.  Possibly even more so when it's a character like Ron.  I don't
think the reader is supposed to accept elf enslavement easily.  So many of
the statements made about it in canon are exactly the kinds of rhetoric that
has been used for generations all over the world to justify slavery.  I
think Hermione is on the right track by wanting to free them, though she's
going about it in the wrong way.

Sherry