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

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 178567

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

> Pippin:
> We learn in OOP that the House Elves are insulted by Hermione's
> attempts to free them and are refusing to clean Gryffindor Tower. 
> Harry knows that refusing to let a House Elf perform its normal
> duties is considered an insult.

va32h:

Now it's my turn to say "huh?"  Yes I know that House Elves are
insulted by Hermione's attempts to free them...that doesn't explain
how you extrapolated "Harry thought about making his own sandwich but
then realized that Kreacher would be wounded if Harry didn't offer him
the chance to do it.  And Harry also understood that Kreacher was the
sort of elf who wouldn't obey an order unless he really wanted to so
Harry felt confident that if he asked Kreacher to bring him a sandwich
Kreacher would only do so because Kreacher really wanted to - and this
represents a spiritual awakening for Harry in re house elves" from the
phrase:

"he turned away from the painted portraits thinking only of the
four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower and
wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there."

If that's what you think - well okay that's what you've imagined.  But
I don't think that's a reasonable interpretation of that phrase. 

va32h