2004-10-05

CoS 3: The Burrow

'Well,' said Fred, 'put it this way -- house-elves have powerful magic of their own, but they can't usually use it without their masters' permission.[...]' (27)

'Well, whoever owns [Dobby] will be an old wizarding family, and they'll be rich,' said Fred.
[George:] '[...]House-elves come with big old manors and castles and places like that, you wouldn't catch one in our house...' (27-28)

More info on the nature of house-elves, the extensive discussion of which is still going in Chapter 2. I've been mostly sitting back and watching, and loving you guys for being so smart.

For more house-elf fun, check out

manu86's instructive article on HP dialects and accents, including analyses of Winky, Dobby, and Kreacher's speech patterns. They're all different, which I hadn't consciously noticed.

( Molly, Arthur, superabundance, wizarding culture, dark themes framed lightly. idlerat and arclevel quoted within. )

Phew. Past re-read posts are here.

CoS 3: The Burrow

'Well,' said Fred, 'put it this way -- house-elves have powerful magic of their own, but they can't usually use it without their masters' permission.[...]' (27)

'Well, whoever owns [Dobby] will be an old wizarding family, and they'll be rich,' said Fred.
[George:] '[...]House-elves come with big old manors and castles and places like that, you wouldn't catch one in our house...' (27-28)