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fandomsecrets2009-08-17 04:05 pm
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[ SECRET POST #955 ]
⌈ Secret Post #955 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 12 pages, 288 secrets from Secret Submission Post #137.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeat ], [ 1 - take it to comments ].
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"Oh, I know better than you."
She then proceeds to insult the House Elves, unintentionally. And honestly, I think her trying to trick them into freedom is downright disgusting. Can you imagine the ramnifications on the average House Elf to suddenly find itself freed (largely viewed by all the Hogwarts Elves as a terrible thing) because it picked up the wrong bit of rubbish? Trying to gradually integrate the idea of freedom and wages may be one thing, but tricking them is basically forcing her will upon them without their consent because She Knows Better.
It's proof she's a Gryff and not a Claw. A Ravenclaw would've done better research and approached the problem in a better way. They probably would've even check Muggle sources and found a plethora of legends about brownies and similar hearth-faeries that liked to serve a particular house, and took pride in their work, so long as they were respected as a member of the household as well (if an unseen one).
But no. She goes plowing ahead, all bluster and arrogance, refusing to actually accumulate more information than the intial bit that made her leap into action, and flat-out denying everything anyone else had told her, instead of trying to look at the situation from every angle. It drives me insane.
Crusade for House Elf rights, better treatment, and maybe eventually wages? Yes, certainly. Treating an elf like Dobby would, in the legends, resulted in a cursed house and an absent elf. So they should be treated like people. Bust she refuses to even listen to the people she's trying to help. She refuses to try to understand their culture and instead wants to "fix" them against their will.
I'd probably be more sympathetic if she had ever bothered to learn where the whole arrangement of House Elves as slaves started. If wizards just rounded them up and brainwashed them, yeah, that should probably be amended--with a considerate transition. On the other hand, I've read stories where brownies/hearth faeries/etc without a family to be a part of would fade away and die.
If it's an allegory, then technically she was doing the right thing. If we're supposed to take it at face value, then no. Not enough information.
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Two, A+++ comment!
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I just wanted to say her crusade could be taken as... well.. just that. I know JKR likely didn't intend it, but it reminds me of situations like what Christians did to the Native Americans to 'save them'. Going in and saying their culture is wrong, she knows better, she's going to save them.