a sandwich

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 178878

Bart:
"The problem with house elves is on which side of the border do you put them. 
Since the history of house elves is not given in canon, we cannot 
determine whether house elves are people who have been enslaved, or 
animals with a higher level of consciousness than most. Is Dobby 
overcoming his programming, or was he driven insane by abuse? We have no 
idea; we can only guess. My best guess is that house elves need respect 
more than they need freedom."
And what if, originally, they had been animals who had been enhanced by wizards
to be the "hewers of wood and drawers of water"?  JKR does not say, so we can
speculate as we wish as long as we don't insist that everyone else accept our
speculations as fact.



Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in
heart."--Iris Murdoch



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