JKR, Harry, and the nature of House-Elves: (Was: "Morality" and "tolerance"

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 178994

> Pippin:
> Kreacher tortures himself because he is compelled to by 
enchantments.
> He is not fighting for those enchantments to be lifted. No one is, 
> presumably because they have no idea how it can be done. He is
> fighting for the kind of treatment he believes a house-elf should 
> receive from a worthy master.  Whether it's a legal right or a 
right 
> recognized by custom has nothing to do with him. 

a_svirn:
But then, he always fought for that. Staring from OOP. 

> Pippin:
 But Kreacher didn't believe that a halfblood who associated with
> freaks, monsters and mudbloods could *be* a good master. That's
> why he wished he could be Draco's slave instead.

a_svirn:
Not at all. You didn't listen to Hermione apparently. He does not 
bother his head over wizarding politics. Sirius was a pure-blood, but 
he hated him none the less. He hated him because he believed him to 
be against everything that Regulus hold dear. When it was explained 
to him that Harry was actually on Regulus's side, he changed his 
mind. It is all about personal loyalty to the master.