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

[william]

No: HPFGUIDX 188774


> > ---  Bart Lidofsky <bart@> wrote:
> > > Can they have children?
> >
> > zanooda:
> > 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 :-)?
> >
>
> Steve/bboyminn:
> 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.
> <snip>


William:
I agree with Steve that house-elves were probably breed.
I suspect Winky probably never knew who her father and
grandfather were and therefore does not mention them.