[HPforGrownups] Re: The Riddle House

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 170936

Kimberly here:
>We see later in the series that Dumbledore hires on Dobby as well 
>as Winky. It always seemed that he took them on not because there 
>was a shortage of elf-staff at Hogwarts but more for their sake. 
>Dobby and Winky had no other prospects. 

At least for them to stay together. It's also perhaps the only paying gig that
Dobby wuold get, but there are probably more than a few families (the Weasleys come
to mind) who would have been happy to have Winky work for them, and would have treated
Winky like family instead of like a slave.

Bart