Subverting the genre?

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "hg_skmg" <hg_skmg at y...> wrote:
>
> 
> hg:
> Oh, heck, is that all?!  I just read a good one that Dumbledore is 
> the Head House-elf at Hogwarts.  All he'd need is that Christmas gift 
> and he'd be free.  Wouldn't it subvert the genre if the wise old 
> annoyingly philosophical white-bearded wizard was actually a slave?  
> I was ready to break out the books and make a case for it.  ;)
>

No problem.
The inclusion of natty gents hosiery in the tale is one thing, how Jo
weaves it into the plot and what its significance is is something else
again. So please follow your instincts and dig the books out and 
scour the text for clues.

DD as slave is new, I think, though having a battered old mentor
'tasked' to expunge the evil that threatens all that is good and
wholesome, hoping eventually to lay down his burden of care and
struggle is very much a traditional plotline. 

Now if you can dig up some evidence that DD was once play-thing
of Morgan-Le-Fay, or that his honed and slightly-oiled torso was at
one time chained, prostrate and helpless at the feet of old Mrs Black,
subject to her slightest whim or vilest desire, then you'll get a round
of deserved applause from the membership.

Kneasy