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

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 183742

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

Montavilla47:

1. When he spontaneously gave Dobby a Christmas gift.
2. When he complimented the elves on their cooking.
3. When he removed the things hiding the hats in the Gryffindor
common room, because he felt the elves deserved a *choice* about
being freed.