Harry's remark about Kreacher WAS: Re: JKR messed up........ no.

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 178557

> Doddie here:
> 
> I always thought that Kreacher was the one individual he could ask 
for 
> something that wouldn't ask questions, or demand anything in 
> return...i.e. Kreacher would see how tired and exhausted Harry know 
he 
> had years to hear the story or ask questions, or garner his freedom 
if 
> so desired....if there was one characteristic Kreacher had..it was 
> perception...

Magpie:
No, he's just Harry's slave and does what he says. Whether or not 
he's perceptive of Harry needing rest doesn't make him much different 
from any other House Elf. (Maybe Kreacher needed a rest--he was in 
the battle too.) Any House Elf would get Harry a sandwich no 
questions asked. Harry calls on this elf because he's his personal 
slave.

Doddie
I like to think Harry may have garnered as much 
> throughout his ordeals; and perhaps ordered said sandwich to grant 
> Kreacher his freedom where upon he refused despite the full outfit 
> aside from the hat, and after Kreacher telling his tale; Harry 
asked 
> what Kreacher wanted and then sent him to serve the malfoy family.

Magpie:
Or perhaps he set Kreacher on fire. In the book all we've got is 
Harry calling on his slave to make him a sandwich. Any house elf 
would have gotten Harry a sandwich with no questions asked. They're 
slaves. That's what they do. Granting Kreacher, or any of them, their 
freedom is out of the question if they don't ask for it, which 
Kreacher wouldn't.

Doddie:
Poor Malfoys, who choose not to 
> hire regular employees.

Magpie;
I'm not sure what you mean here. We don't know much about how the 
Malfoys run their house or if they had any other House Elves besides 
Dobby, who's been gone for years.

 
> Doddie,
> (who often wonders if Hermione did have a word or two with DD 
> regarding houselves at Hogwarts...and if this was why the MOM had a 
> funded department that included the treatment of house elves and 
> finding them placement--probably extremely shameful to them.)

Magpie:
Hermione didn't need to talk to Dumbledore. He was on her side about 
House Elves and had offered them all freedom. I don't recall the MoM 
having any department for finding House Elves placement, but I could 
just be forgetting.

-m