Wands and Wizards...Again (Was: Epilogue ...)

[yraiym]

No: HPFGUIDX 183740

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "montavilla47" 
<montavilla47 at ...> wrote:

> In remembering the elves and thinking about
> their welfare--as if they were people--Ron is doing
> *exactly* what he would have done in GoF or OotP.  He
> hasn't changed at all--but Hermione treats it like 
> he's made some huge step toward enlightenment.

But when has Ron ever shown the slightest concern for House Elves 
before?  He's always treated them as beings without feelings, which 
are made to be used by wizards, and as a luxury item which his 
family never had but which he would take full advantage of given the 
chance.  So here, for the first time that I noticed, Ron is thinking 
of House Elves as thinking, feeling beings who are not just there to 
serve wizards, but to be protected from the abuses to which wizards 
are prone.  

JMO,
yraiym