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

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 178577

Magpie wrote:
> 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.

Carol responds:

We know that Kreacher found ways of getting around doing what Sirius
ordered him to do--same for Harry until he learned to respect him. He
may know what Harry has been through--"dying," or a near-death
experience or whatever you want to call it, for one, fighting in a
battle, losing friends. Even the House-Elves must have known about the
Gringotts robbery and the escape on the dragon only hours before HRH
arrived in Hogsmeade. Surely Harry deserves a sandwich and Kreacher
would be honored to bring him one at this point? And, knowing
Kreacher, I think he'd be offended if Harry didn't call for him
personally. Harry, the hero of the WW, is "his" master.

Hermione educates Harry on the House-Elf mentality. It isn't slavery
they resent. It's their nature to serve. It's having to serve a master
they don't respect. And Kreacher now respects Harry--perhaps almost as
much as he respects his beloved Regulus.

IMO, Kreacher would be happy, more than happy, to get Harry a
sandwich. He'd feel almost as if he were back home at the Black family
home before Yaxley found out how to get in.

Carol, wondering whether Harry (and Kreacher) will return to 12 GP now
that the DEs are dead or imprisoned