Kreacher wearing a bread roll Mwahaha - never thought of that!
I'm not sure Rowling *had* an intention about the house elf subplot.) That's what I'd really REALLY like to know. Not just about house-elves but about a lot of things she set up in the first books and just dropped during the last two instalments (house unity, anyone?). On the one hand, I can't imagine anyone with working self-respect to dish out such a lot of crap when he/ she has SHOWN he/ she can do better. On the other hand, to have done so in good conscience would necessitate some sort of intellectual decline on JKR's side equally as improbable. As we DO know she dropped ideas (someone showing magical abilities later in life, info as to what Dudley saw when the demetors were there, for instance, I am inclined to the former explanation - meaning JKR went for what's easy (get it over with) instead of what is right (authorial sincerity). Which, by rights, should place her firmly into Slytherin...
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Date: 2007-10-15 09:40 am (UTC)Mwahaha - never thought of that!
I'm not sure Rowling *had* an intention about the house elf subplot.)
That's what I'd really REALLY like to know. Not just about house-elves but about a lot of things she set up in the first books and just dropped during the last two instalments (house unity, anyone?). On the one hand, I can't imagine anyone with working self-respect to dish out such a lot of crap when he/ she has SHOWN he/ she can do better. On the other hand, to have done so in good conscience would necessitate some sort of intellectual decline on JKR's side equally as improbable. As we DO know she dropped ideas (someone showing magical abilities later in life, info as to what Dudley saw when the demetors were there, for instance, I am inclined to the former explanation - meaning JKR went for what's easy (get it over with) instead of what is right (authorial sincerity). Which, by rights, should place her firmly into Slytherin...