best of enemies pt 4: Young Barty

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Kneasy wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_
old_crowd/message/960 :

<< And if Jnr was constantly enveloped in an Invisibility Cloak, how
the hell did Barty Snr ever know where he was? >>

There seems to be a belief in the fandom that Dumbledore can see
throught Invisibility Cloaks despite having a non-artificial eye.
Maybe Old Barty can do so, too. I expect that all House Elves can.

<< And there's not much point in being the sole survivor, capering
with joy in a radio-active, poison ridden landscape. >>

I don't think Voldemort will discover that it gets boring until after
he's achieveed it.

Elfun Deb wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/964 :

<< Well, that was Winky's job. "I was always with the house-elf. She
was my keeper and caretaker." Though that doesn't explain everything,
does it? When did Winky sleep? >>

Who says House Elves sleep (except when sleeping off a Butterbeer
drunk)? 

<< Did she accompany him to the shower? >>

She bathed him in a portable tub, the same as when he was a baby,
including the use of partial immobilization Charms when he was being
obsteperous. The humiliation he felt was entirely a matter of age
status, not sexual at all, any more than a pet dog hanging out while
he was bathing would be sexual. Oh, I almost forgot: IMHO.