The curious case of Dobby and house elves
Series I’m still confused on one subject: the house elves . How is the reader supposed to feel about them? Should readers be angry about a particular group enslaving elves for centuries? Should we pity them and their unyielding ignorance about their condition, or should we just accept the evles’ place in wizarding society?Rowling is very clear on a lot of subjects. Her stance on love, friendship and acceptance practically screams from the pages. House elves, however, are another matter.
I can’t help but be forcefully reminded of African slaves and white society, which, at the time, justified enslaving an entire race with the claim that they were happier that way and that the back-breaking labor gave Africans pride and purpose.
Generally, when house elves come into contact with different characters, they have no major feelings. Harry regards Dobby as a friend, Ron thinks nothing of their enslavement, and in most cases, folks simply look the other way. There are two characters who have strong feelings about the status of house elves: Hermione Granger and Sirius Black .
Hermione, who is muggle-born, feels outraged at the elves’ enslavement. She creates the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare (S.P.E.W.), to make the wizarding world aware that house elves are forced throughout their lives to serve, unpaid and underappreciated. Even though S.P.E.W. fails from lack of participation, it illustrates two points:
First, no one in the wizarding world really cares about house elves; nobody notices the elves’ existence until services usually taken for granted cease. Second, Harry’s warm bed and the castle, which is inhabited by hundreds of kids, is spotlessly clean. Also, the famous Great Hall feasts are all the work of unpaid workers.Wikipedia defines slavery as “a system under which people are treated as property and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work or to demand compensation ...”
While this definition describes the fate of the majority of house elves, it is not true of the elves that work at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Professor Dumbledore offers Dobby payment for work performed, and offers the house elf, Winky , payment, although Winky is insulted at the gesture. We can only surmise that Dumbledore also offered every house elf at Hogwarts payment, but they declined because they consider payment an insult to both their people and their traditions.
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