Master Madderbrad is not being thinking about how wizards is not being logical. House elves is being slaves, but wizards is only ordering house-elves to do what wizards remember house-elves is being able to do. Only bad elf like Dobby, crazy elf, is being leting wizards SEE other things elves can do, because then wizards might be being ordering elves to do them. Elves is being having to obey orders, but if wizards isn't ordering, elves isn't having to obey. So good elf isn't being letting wizard see when elf is doing magic wiards don't know elves can do. Wizards is being thinking, elves is being dusting and sewing and cooking and cleaning and minding babies. Wizards is not being thinking, elf magic is more powerful than wizard, I can use elf in war. Because if one wizard is being using elf in war, all wizards will. And elves is being having to obey.
So the display put on by the Hogwarts line at the battle was a deliberate misdirection, a show right up there with Professor Snape's efforts to persuade the Gryffs he'd tried to poison Trevor. See how harmless and cute we are? In battle, all we can do is stab you in the shin!
Much better to have wizards believing that than to realize they can command beings who can break through most wizard castings like they are tissure paper, but who are constrained to obey absolutely their masters' direct orders.
That's my current theory on the elf-batttle behavior. But you're right, of course, the Doylist explanation is the correct one. But mine is more fun..
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Date: 2013-01-31 05:26 am (UTC)So the display put on by the Hogwarts line at the battle was a deliberate misdirection, a show right up there with Professor Snape's efforts to persuade the Gryffs he'd tried to poison Trevor. See how harmless and cute we are? In battle, all we can do is stab you in the shin!
Much better to have wizards believing that than to realize they can command beings who can break through most wizard castings like they are tissure paper, but who are constrained to obey absolutely their masters' direct orders.
That's my current theory on the elf-batttle behavior. But you're right, of course, the Doylist explanation is the correct one. But mine is more fun..