CHAPDISC: DH26, Gringotts

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184112

Carol:
 Of course, they're also fighting to avoid being
> enslaved to the cruel DEs,
> 

Pippin:
Voldemort  threatened to *kill* everyone at Hogwarts if Harry was not
turned over to him. Do you think he planned to make an exception for
Centaurs and Elves? More to the point, would the Centaurs and Elves
think so? They weren't fighting to avoid enslavement by cruel DE's.
They were fighting for their lives and homes.

It's important that they chose to fight rather than try to capture
Harry or flee the area. But that decision was the fruit of an era  
in which the Hogwarts authorities gave centaurs and house-elves their
protection and treated them  differently than other wizards did. There
was no such tradition with the goblins.

Pippin