[HPforGrownups] Re: House elves and some spoilers for Swordspoint WAS: realistic solutions

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 180874

Carol:
> no last name and her white owner) is "a *person* person held in
> servitude as the chattel of another." "Person" is defined as "human
> individual." As Ron reminds Hermione, House-Elves aren't human.

	The writers of M-W don't know about non-human people. Or, I guess if 
centaurs to were placed into forced labor, it would not be slavery, 
because Merriem Webster, the arbiter of all things legal, doesn't define 
it as such?

	Bart