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[Tiffany B. Clark]

No: HPFGUIDX 178701

CJ:

As far as we can tell from canon, nothing changes. House elves just 
go on being house elves as everybody else loses interest in them as 
an Issue. Sure, canon leaves room to speculate otherwise, but that 
hardly seems a fitting conclusion to something JKR herself once 
declared to be a VIM. Hmm, guess it must not have been so Important 
after all?

Tiffany:

I was able to speculate on this a few days ago with another Potter 
lover at the UofM (Minnesota campus) & we both agreed that the house-
elves will possibly not change very much & just be house-elves.  I 
personally like that JKR left a lot of things open-ended & up in the 
air.  I like a lot of closure to things, but with the way DH ended, 
an open-ended conclusion seemed to fit very well.

I think that the VIM wasn't so much the actual house-elves themselves 
but the themes & issues associated with the house-elves.  It reminds 
me a lot like the thread on "the fat lady", I didn't see her as a big 
issue when compared with the overall themes & issues associated with 
her.