Chapt Discussion: Chamber of Secrets Ch. 3, The Burrow - Elf Love

[bboyminn]

No: HPFGUIDX 188765



---  "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> ---  Bart Lidofsky <bart@> wrote:
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> > Can they have children?
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> zanooda:
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> Yes, remember in GoF Winky saying: "I is looking for after Crouches all my life, and my mother is doing it before me, and my grandmother is doing it before her..." (p.381 Am.ed.). There is something wrong with this picture though  - where are the father and the grandfather :-)? Working in another household?
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I suspect it is much like slaves are breed. I have a male house-elf and you have a female house-elf. We decide we need more house-elves. So, my male breeds with your female. The first off-spring elf goes to you, and the second off-spring elf goes to me. Now we both have more house-elves to carry on. 

Seems a little cold though. Judging from Dobby, elves are capable of compassion and caring, can we, by extension, assume the carries over into love, and more importantly romantic love? Can house-elves fall in love? Or, are they simply driven by a biological desire to serve, rather than a biological desire to procreate. 

Humans, you can't stop them from pro-creating, whether motived by lust or love, they will find a way. 

House-elves clearly have a complex range of emotion, but does it extent to romatic love, and how far will they go to get it? Humans will kill thousands, even millions, for love. But will elves betray their masters for love? 

...don't know. 

Steve/bboyminn